Month: April 2013

Well this just beats all. Animal rights activists want to sic drones on their enemies:  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is actively shopping for a drone that would “stalk hunters,” the organization said Monday. The group says it will “soon have some impressive new weapons at its disposal to combat those who gun…

Commenter AJ was asking a few questions at Eric’s More worthless than a degree from a diploma mill. AJ believes in the value of schooling. I do not. I believe in the value of education. Specifically – educating yourself. I decided he deserved some answers. ================ “I don’t understand how being an aerospace engineer without…

I was discussing things with an anarcho communist (which I used to be in another life) and thought it might be some fun to repeat parts of the discussion for your amusement and edification. Unlike my usual this is probably going to go long. He starts out by proposing free exchange over the internet by…

Earlier I came across an amazing statement by our highest court: “Obviously, direct control of medical practice in the states is beyond the power of the federal government.” The Supreme Court said that in a unanimous 1925 opinion which held that the Harrison Narcotics Act could not be used to prosecute doctors who prescribe narcotics…

A while back I posted a video of Heart Surgeon Dr. David Allen discussing the value of cannabis for heart health. What I didn’t know at the time was that the State of Mississippi tried to railroad him on marijuana charges in order to steal his property. Dr. David Allen is a cardiovascular surgeon who…

During a golf game recently, the president of Bowdoin College hit up a prominent philanthropist for money and the man refused, calling Bowdoin “a ridiculous liberal school that brings all the wrong students to campus for all the wrong reasons.” After that, the philanthropist was castigated by the president as a knuckle-dragging troglodyte, who had…

From: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23537701 CONCLUSION: A single ultra low dose of THC before ischemia is a safe and effective treatment that reduces myocardial ischemic damage. Translation: Tel Aviv, Israel: Low doses of THC are cardioprotective in mice, according to preclinical data to be published online in the journal Biochemical Pharmacology. Israeli scientists assessed in impact of a…

And leave the rest of the West behind. Seriously, check out these pictures. (Via Glenn Reynolds, natch.) They are all engaged in deliberate retaliatory provocation against religious bigots who want to stone a woman to death for posting naked pictures of herself (something which most Americans take for granted under the Second Amendment*): Earlier today,…

I used to see Roger Ebert a lot. And not just on TV. He used to eat at a kind of Italian fast food place called Roma’s Restaurant on the south west corner of Sheffield and Webster in Chicago. The neighborhood was denoted as the “Near North Side” in the way Chicago has of naming…

I was reading the comments at support for legalization at 52% and came across this comment. Joel Busher at 3:53 PM April 4, 2013 Several States in the American Union have legalized the recreational use of marijuana even with studies stating that this drug leads to use of even more dangerous addictions. How safe is…

There is a new Pew poll out showing national support for marijuana legalization at 52% vs 45% against. A majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana, a new poll indicates, with the change driven largely by a huge shift in how the baby boom generation feels about the drug of their youth. By 52% to 45%,…

They may be mostly a group of lefties, I am delighted that the ACLU has expressed concerns about the pending gun control bill. …we have seen in the past that the creation of these types of records leads sometimes to the creation of government databases and collections of personal information on all of us,” Calabrese…

Richard Feldman of the Independent Firearm Owners Association has an oped in USA Today. …we must focus on the fact that authorities say 30% to 45% of all gun crime is attributable to the illegal drug trade. History proved that taking profit out of trade in “demon rum” dramatically eliminated related violence. Why wouldn’t that…

Patenting a plant treatment? Is this any way to treat medical cannabis?

For some time, I’ve been puzzled over a growing, annoying trend. Increasingly, I get asked for my ID to buy alcohol. I’m 58, have gray hair, and no one on this planet who has even a quarter of a brain would imagine for a moment that I might — even possibly — be under 21.…

The anti-gun bigots are hardly making me want to move back to California: Gun control advocates in Sacramento are putting a new twist on an old NRA slogan: “Guns don’t kill people — bullets kill people.” Democratic lawmakers are pushing like never before to regulate or tax ammunition sales. They say the logic is simple: A…

Some kids have been reading this blog and are mocking it. H/T Spatial Orientation – Classically Liberal Space Cadets. And how did I find them? Well I was looking for a SWAT team picture and found a really good one here.

The problem with libertines is that they take advantage of Liberty. The way to prevent that is to severely curtail Liberty. The very best way to protect Liberty is to eliminate it. And thus the modern Conservative who does everything in his power to protect Liberty. And any one who says Conservatives are anti-Liberty is…

Kathy Kinsley in a round about way suggested this. And yes. I specifically picked this version for the irony. And Judy Garland.

Due to the great number of people not getting the Joke, April Fools Day has been rescheduled. It will now officially be April 2nd of every year. On leap years it will be April 3rd to account for the extra day in the year.