Month: December 2014

Speaking of hatred (and speaking of our police state) one of the things I especially hate is 2000 page “laws.” Like Obamacare. Or like a so-called “Farm Bill” which made it a federal felony to have unlabeled wood. The origins of such monstrosities can be debated (I think granddaddy of them all was the War on Drugs) but…

Back in July I posted a video about Police gone wild, This Is What Happens, with a link to police burning a baby in a botched drug raid. I also did a post about the raid in May They Burn Babies Don’t They?. It has finally hit the national news. Family of Toddler Injured by…

As you may have heard by now Nebraska and Oklahoma are challenging Colorado’s cannabis legalization law. Kevin Sabet who has been designated to hold back legalization (as far as I can tell) had this to say: Kevin Sabet, co-founder of anti-legalization group Smart Approaches to Marijuana, backed the legal action, saying while states should be…

A University of Michigan professor of Communications has actually communicated something quite clearly. She says unequivocally, “I hate Republicans.” Which means that to her and others who think like her, either: a. Hate speech is not a problem; or b. Only those you hate can be guilty of hate speech. This comes on the heels…

So, it turns out there’s an obscure anti-skeptic website out there with the amusingly misleading name of Skeptical Science.  Unlike its more mainstream skeptical counterparts, this site has a permanent format that lends itself to citing, perhaps better than more popular news-driven global warming websites. While the information on the site is at best tendentious, some readers…

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A little while ago Eric did a post Just say NO to another Bush!, discussing how Jeb Bush is a total Drug Warrior. I commented It is worse than that Eric. The Republicans are not even installed in Congress and they are starting already: The Republicans Are Attempting Suicide The new Congress isn’t even installed…

Speaking of Prohibitionists, I see that Jeb Bush is bound and determined to run for President.                     Jeb Bush will “actively explore the possibility of running for president” in 2016, according to an announcement the former Florida governor posted to his Facebook page Tuesday morning. Mr.…

Some of you may remember my post A thermodynamic explanation of politics. In it I looked at why we have two competing political strategies and how they are complimentary. They are for different ecological niches. I just came across an article that looks at the same question from an evolutionary perspective. r/K Selection Theory. Biologists…

Yeah yeah yeah… HACK: Chilling Longterm Effect… BOND ‘SPECTRE’ SCRIPT STOLEN… EMAILS: DICAPRIO ‘DESPICABLE’… Clooney ‘loses sleep’ over critics… Studio Hires David Boies to Threaten Media… Demands News Organizations Delete ‘Stolen’ Data… NEWSROOM: Sorkin Says ‘Morally Treasonous’ For Publishing… FIRST REVIEW: BLACK ‘ANNIE’ TOXIC… Obviously, I’m not keeping up with the times as I perhaps…

I was having a discussion over at The Rational Male and a commenter there asked me to do a piece on Cultural Marxism. I’m going to make this easy on myself by mainly posting links to other places that have articles of interest, and repeating some of my comments from the Rational Male. But first…

In New York State where medical cannabis is nominally legal, eight year old Donella Nocera of Niagra Falls died while awaiting access to medical cannabis. Statement by Nate Nocera, father of Donella: “More than five months after Governor Cuomo signed a bill into law that was meant to bring vital treatment to our family, my…

Cannabis may not be a schedule one drug (no medical use) much longer. There is a hearing going on in California to decide if the Schedule Cannabis is in is Constitutional. The text of Schedule I – which is, after all, what this hearing is all about – lays out a 3-part test; a drug…

Yesterday I saw something which startled and puzzled me. A boy (anywhere between 9 and 13) was walking with a woman who appeared to be his mother, and the two of them were having a loud argument which escalated as they walked. The mother was trying to control him and warning him that she wouldn’t…

From: Cosmic Drunk Two: Every One Else Re: Sort your Shit.   Thank you for listening. This broadcast potentially could have been a message from our sponsors. Had this really been a message, it’w’d’ve conjoined with some other nonsense somewhere in the CableNews–Zombie section of the brain (a surprisingly compact continuum). Thank you for y’r…

Do animals self medicate? It’s not just humans that seek out drugs to relieve a stomach ache, get rid of a headache or treat skin conditions – animals do it too. The theory of self-medicating animals, known as zoopharmacognosy, has been spotted in macaws in Brazil, elephants in Kenya and even dogs and cats in…

Yeah. The title of this post is kinda cryptic. So what is 2-AG? It is an endocannabinoid found in the human body (redundant – but not everyone knows “endo”). There is a recent paper that says increasing the amount of 2-AG in the body is likely to reduce cannabis addiction. I’m not going to annoy…

It’s hard to believe it’s been 73 years since Pearl Harbor, but it has, and the number of survivors of the attack on the USS Arizona has dwindled into the single digits. More than a dozen Pearl Harbor survivors, each more than 90 years old, gathered in Hawaii this week to share stories as they marked the…

From We Are Exemt From Your Morality. Knock, knock, knock on your front door (should we decide to give you the courtesy of a knock), then we break down the door and come in like a sudden flood, using lethal force on anyone who resists, often killing the family pet should he dare to bark…

With subtitles. Cannabis cures cancer. Cancer kills 586,000 Americans every year. Every Prohibitionist is complicit in mass murder. Pass it on. Also see Not Bad In The Original German Either.