Month: April 2013

I’m a Usaian (read A Few Good Men if this term confuses you) – I believe in Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.  For humans, of course. But what is a human? The feeling that we need to answer this question and answer it definitely has been growing on me since before I wrote…

I’m delighted to see a showing (however slight it may be) of progress in the GOP. A bill introduced in Congress on Friday would fix the conflict between the federal government’s marijuana prohibition and state laws that allow medical or recreational use. California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said his bill, which has three Republican and…

The thought of illegal transactions with bit coin is interesting. But how is delivery handled?

When discussing the abortion question I believe we can’t just look at one thing. We have to look at a lot of things. A question then. Is economics a moral issue? Is it moral for the government to rob Peter to Pay Paul? The Catholic Church seems to think so. They are staunchly anti-abortion. Even…

I want to put “approves” in funky off-ASCII wiggletype. It’d emphasize just how… I have to say it. Titillated. I am. That the IRS has given me their stamp of approval. Without which, let’s face it, I’d be an incomplete human being. I feel like life is have worthing, but I know that can’t be write…

      Bob Dylan live.

Sarah Hoyt said something at her blog that I consider as brilliant as it is painfully obvious: You do not in fact have the right to stop people thinking thoughts you don’t like. As to why fewer and fewer people seem to understand this, I don’t know. It seems that especially in academia, thought police…

My dear old friend Amanda Marcotte has issued a warning about certain people in the natural food industry. Some of them are (gasp!) right wing. Which means that if you are going to buy organic food, you should be very careful. For all the good stuff in the organic food movement, there’s also a sector of…

Rabbi Jeffrey Kahn was interviewed by WREX TV. I had the great honor of meeting him at Friday night services and at a Saturday afternoon symposium. You can read more about the Rabbi here: Rabbi Jeffrey Kahn and here: DC Medical Marijuana Rabbi Comes To Rockford. The Rabbi discussed Medical Marijuana and how as a…

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com       More New York Police Admit to Wrongly Seizing David Lewis’ Guns.

Commenter Kate left a comment on my post Life At Conception Act that deserves a wider audience. So here it is: ====== Oh, the fun I could have with this… I’ll be nice. Data point one: Where abortion is available AND there are no-identification abandonment places for women to leave unwanted infants, there are still…

“I cover policy for the Washington Post, not local crime…” So claims Washington Post reporter Sarah Kliff in explaining why she did not report the unbelievable carnage at Dr. Gosnell’s Philadelphia charnel house which called itself an abortion clinic. This is not about abortion, but infanticide. (I don’t approve of abortion, but there is an important difference.)…

You can find an article on what he did at The Atlantic. You can also get the short version at Navy Training Wins Election For Obama. Further thoughts. No guy who looks like that (another picture) is going to be hired by Republicans. They won’t be hiring me either. But defense contractors hired me back…

I just went to the home page of Prevention Magazine and entered “endocannabinoid” into the search engine. Nothing. There are more endocannabinoid receptors in the body than any other receptor type. Nothing at Prevention. If you go to go to the NIH site and search “endocannabinoid” you will get over 120,000 cites (It was 130,000+…

I do not like the picture which is staring me in the face on the front page of today’s WSJ: I found it online. The caption: Prince George’s (Md.) County police officer Chandler Coleman, center, wipes his eyes as he listens to Vice President Joe Biden speak about shooting victims as he sits Tuesday April…

Commenter Gringo left a link to an Atlantic piece about how the Obama team won the election that had this little gem embedded: Hatch was playing the role of dungeon master, calling out devilishly complex scenarios that were designed to test each and every piece of their system as they entered the exponential traffic-growth phase…

Via Ann Althouse, I learned that the government is paying people to go door to door and pay people $90 to answer questions about  “drinking, medicine and drug use, mood, anxiety, behavior and medical conditions and personality.” Like any sensible person, she wouldn’t do it. But others have: Yet over 100,000 people have participated. $90…

I just go this from JPFO: “John Doe, an upstanding professional with no outstanding criminal convictions and no history of violent action received a letter from the Pistol Permit Department informing him that his license was immediately revoked upon information that he was seeing a therapist for anxiety and had been prescribed an anxiety drug.…

The Old Victorianism – Sex The New Victorianism – Endocannabinoid Break the New Victorianism. Post “Endocannabinoid” as a comment everywhere – no explanation just “Endocannabinoid”. Update: 9 April 2013 1453z A commenter is wondering about the meaning of Endocannabinoid. And gives me a wink. It does not mean what you think it means. This is…

ECN ran a piece a little over a week ago about how the Republican Party was technologically weak when it came to election winning technology. The evidence is pretty good for this. Normally when the economy is down the party out of power stands a very good chance of winning a national election. But 2012,…