Author: Eric Scheie

This is incredibly messed up. So why does everyone seem to put up with it? Are some people trying to make a slave state out of the other people or what?

Great. First I read that an American governor (a Republican often thought of as having a libertarian bent) is ordering American troops to perform domestic law enforcement. HOUSTON — When Gov. Rick Perry of Texas announced plans to deploy 1,000 National Guard troops to help with the border crisis, it came with a power unexpected…

Shit! Did I just forget* the magnificent anniversary of the sainted Cuban Revolution? Nah, fuck em! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Cfrl7hMoQ Or whatever. * I really don’t think I have actually forgotten in the true (either the Orwellian or modern silly honest) sense, because it’s only 11:00 p.m here in Berkeley. MORE: I’m still on the road in my…

I’m now in Winnemucca, Nevada, and too damned tired to blog about anything which might require brain activity. Laramie to Winnemucca is 741 miles, many of which are windy, mountainous, and under construction. Glad I made it, as I was beginning to distrust my driving skills Much as I enjoy seeing spinning fruit, there’s no…

I left Ann Arbor yesterday and tonight I am in Laramie, Wyoming. Considering my past record-setting drives across the country, that’s moving pretty damn slowly. I got pulled over in Omaha for absolutely nothing except the crime of not wanting to be pulled over (which means I stayed at that stupid town’s  60 mph limit,…

I will be driving west for the next few days, and may or may not be online depending on circumstances. Here’s something that recently came out of the kiln. And some turtles I made (in progress at the time), before they were all sold at the Ann Arbor Art Fair:   Should have made more,…

Are conservatives tolerant of libertarians? This might be helpful too, although it may not. So might this. I’m almost beyond caring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oznVcSjWQio

Oh yes. One of the worst droughts in California’s history has devastated more than a half-million acres of the most fertile farmland in America. In communities like Sacramento, “water police” go from door to door to enforce conservation measures. There’s even a mobile “app” to report neighbors to city authorities so they can be fined…

No, seriously. It’s even being called the Origin of Feces.

Here’s something most people don’t know. A local high school couple won a prize in a national duct tape prom outfit contest: Two Pinckney area teens are feeling ducky after a third place finish in a national duct tape prom outfit contest. Gabrielle Farina, 19, and Ryan Danko, 18, will receive $3,000 each in scholarship money from…

Disagreements about the unknown are one thing. (Not a new topic…) But when someone tells me he knows the unknown, I am skeptical –regardless of what form his particular “knowledge” of the unknown might take.

In a discussion of neighborhood crime earlier today, an intellectual with a Ph.D. argued that crimes committed by “bored” kids are not as serious as the same crimes committed by “real” criminals. I replied that I am more troubled by crimes committed for their entertainment value than those grounded in more typical criminal motives (such as…

Bastards. No really. These people are sick beyond measure. Here’s a picture showing what Isis did recently. I think all of that stuff should have been crated up years ago and sent to the British Museum. But no! It’s considered the “cultural property” of psychopathic crackpots who can destroy it. What a pity. We’re talking…

Calling it “SPYING AND LYING,” Glenn Reynolds links an article that really ought to shock more people. The unconstitutional DEA has virtually unlimited access to all of our telephone records, and agents are taught to routinely lie about where they got them. Shortly after the Snowden leaks began exposing the NSA’s massive collection efforts, the New…

In a growing and very ominous trend, what used to be considered normal, innocuous behavior is being treated as crime. A mother in Bristol, Connecticut, was charged with leaving a child unsupervised in a car Wednesday. How old was the helpless tyke? Eleven. Why was she in the car? She asked her mom if she could stay there. Was…

This is funny:

If more education is better, then the higher you go, the more money you make! Right? Um, not quite: 36,000 new PhDs each year, and only around 3,000 new positions created. Nothing new or surprising there. What is called “academia” is not dominated by academicians, but by bueaucrats who raise the cost of what is called “higher education”…

I didn’t, but I do now. …the NSA tracks all connections to a server that hosts part of an anonymous email service at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It also records details about visits to a popular internet journal for Linux operating system users called “the Linux Journal…

It’s an amusing analogy, except I see a problem. An assumption is being made that the alarmists’ arguments are in any way susceptible to rational debate. Even if the data reveal cooling, the alarmists will still call it warming, or “climate change” and say it proves they were right. This will be dismissed by them…

Another day, another megalomaniac doing everything in his power to tell people what to do: James Cameron and wife to launch campaign advocating sustainable plant-only based diet Film director James Cameron and his wife, Suzy Amis Cameron, an actor and model, are planning a global campaign to persuade people to move towards a plant-only diet…