Author: Dave

The Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller Virtual Institute has an interesting graph that I wish more people were aware of. Fuller noticed while reviewing available global statistics that as an area’s per capita energy consumption increased, the average birth rate for that area decreased! This fact has held true for every country of the world as it…

Lubos Motl has a piece up on the unprecedented thinning of Arctic Ice. He points to this paper which claims the cause is a shift in sea circulation patterns. The extent of Arctic perennial sea ice, the year-round ice cover, was significantly reduced between March 2005 and March 2007 by 1.08 × 10E6 km2, a…

K.C. Johnson of Durham in Wonderland is retiring from regular posting at his blog. He did as much as a human could to get the story out of the railroading of the three Duke Lacrosse players by disgraced District Attorney Michael Nifong. He follows in the path of another intrepid Professor who stood athwart history…

This young lady is from Rockford, Illinois. She composed the piece.

Hoots has an excellent post up on the happenings in Burma with lots of links. He quotes from the New York Times. Natural gas from Myanmar, which generates 20 percent of all electricity in Thailand, keeps the lights on in Bangkok. The gas, which this year will cost about $2.8 billion, is the largest single…

In March of ‘003 I did one of the first interviews with LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. It was a very interesting interview and got a lot of attention. Today I want to present a video full of interviews with police officers. The video is about 13 1/2 minutes long. You can get the gist…

I was having a discussion of a post at Classical Values My People with Brett. Let me reprise the gist of the short post: If Hitler put them in camps they are my people. Count me with the Jews, the gays, the mental defectives, and the drug users. Brett then asks: What I don’t understand…

Totalitarians always find some group characteristic that is “objectionable” and use it to have a nice little pogrom on the group. Schizophrenics take drugs. Alcohol and cigarettes in excess. They seem to also like other drugs to self medicate. Pot being among the more popular. Heroin for those with more serious trouble. Our war on…

An off topic discussion at Climate Audit was considering Fenton/Soros and their relationship to the AGW (man made global warming) movement and how Soros intended to profit from his rent-a-mobs: If I was a savvy investor with inside connections I wouldn’t place my bets until my objective was nearly a sure thing. First generate a…

Roberto, a grower of the herb yerba mate who lives near Yaguaron, tells me that Paraguayans “need another Stroessner to stop Lugo.” He is one of those who fall into the trap of thinking that the alternative to left-wing populism is right-wing authoritarianism. “He did some nasty things to some people,” Roberto acknowledges of the…

“Distrust anyone in whom the desire to punish is powerful” Friedrich Nietzsche

I’m having an e-mail discussion with a rabid “punish the drug users until they quit or die” type. Here is my response: If Hitler put them in camps they are my people. Sad that they are not yours. Count me with the Jews, the gays, the mental defectives, and the drug users. Cross Posted at…

Evan Coyne Maloney has made a film. Here are some out takes. Here is what the makers have to say about about the subject matter. Speech codes. Censorship. Enforced political conformity. Hostility to diversity of opinion. Sensitivity training. We usually associate such things with the worst excesses of fascism and communism, not with the American…

Click on the photo for more pictures HT Ikar M.

As I often do when I have an idle moment I follow strange links to see where they lead. This one is strange indeed. Police in the Chandra Levy murder mystery are investigating a link between Levy and “madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, whose “little black book” may contain the name of the man who killed…

I think it is time to digest the results of the Israeli air raid on Syria that happened on September 6th and see how it has affected Iran. Let us start with an early report from the Guardian. Syrian air defences opened fire on Israeli aircraft that violated Syrian airspace overnight, a Syrian military spokesman…

A really nice piece in the Grateful Dead style. I wish I knew Hebrew better. I’d like to be able to converse with some of the lovelies. Women who pack heat turn me on. Music by Vlado Kreslin More Women of the Israeli Army Some More Women of the Israeli Army Cross Posted at The…

Here is a nice Velvet Underground clip complete with psychedelia. I saw them live at Winterland when The Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead were on the same bill many years ago. Gone are the days.

First let me introduce you to a man you ought to know. Tim Flannery, named the 2007 Australian of the Year for his work in alerting the public to the dangers of global warming, said the issue was the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. Flannery said predictions in a 2001 UN report,…

Dr. John Beresford has died. Dr. John Beresford died on September 2, 2007 in a hospital in Canada. British-born John Beresford began his psychedelic research interests in 1961, when he resigned his post as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the New York Medical College and founded the Agora Scientific Trust, the world’s first research…