Author: Simon

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The above picture was from this Yahoo story of Hillary hospitalized with blood clot. Notice the odd triangular motif on the right? That is not something you normally see in the context of American icons. The caption for the picture reads: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answers questions from the audience at the 2012…

I just read something interesting. The 2012 elections are over and it was a landmark one for women. Female voters made up 54 percent of the electorate, and according to exit polls, 55 percent of those women voted for Obama…. So why have men in effect “stopped voting”? Or more accurately reduced their participation.

The utterance in the title can be heard at about the 5:05 mark. So what is the video about? The end of college and probably all of education as we know it. The montage in the beginning is especially interesting. So are teachers really worth what we pay them? Some are worth way more. The…

Eric in his post The Most Important Drug War Film I’ll Never See? linked to this Forbes article where I found this comment: The War on Drugs needs to be replaced with an all-out War Against Drug Dealers to include: – Death penalty for 2nd & 3rd time offenders, as optional for juries and judges…

H/T A list I am on which prefers to remain nameless.

Law student Cody Wilson has made a gun. In his “bedroom”. With a 3D printer. He defends his project (he has released the source code) and why he did it. But some of the most interesting stuff is in the comments. Like this one: Cody should be in jail. The second amendment is so that…

I came across this report and got scared witless. This is supposedly a conversation between two people. One of which is Doug Hagman (DH). DH: Whoa, wait a minute. You just said a mouthful. What’s the agenda here? RB: Your intelligence insider – he knows that we are facing a planned economic collapse. You wrote…

A long while back I wrote a piece in which I quote Graham Greene from his book “Our Man In Havana” where the police chief of Havana explains who is torturable. The poor in my own country, in any Latin American country. The poor of Central Europe and the Orient. Of course in your welfare…

H/T Richard Feldman via e-mail

Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter appear in the YouTube video Breaking The Taboo. Their message: prohibition has not worked and is not working. In my estimation they are positioning the Democrat Party to take advantage of the end of Prohibition. Where are the Republicans on this issue? MIA. I predict another 1932 in their future.…

A new generation of weed comedian. We are getting past the Cheech and Chong stage. Thank The Maker. This kind of reminds me of the “drunk jokes” you would hear on TV about 20 years after the end of alcohol prohibition. “Drunk” comedians were quite popular in that era.

The First Mate sent me this one too. My #3 son is an EE at Ipsen. He is in the R&D Department.

The above was sent to me by the First Mate. In a recent conversation she started swearing like a sailor. Not her usual style at all. She excused herself for what we refer to in the family as “Navy Talk”. I said it was OK because she married a sailor. Me. You should have seen…

And if you are born with them? Too bad. Female US cop caught on tape giving two women body cavity search during routine traffic stop… and ‘using the SAME gloves on both’. Their suspected offense? Littering. Throwing a cigarette butt out the window. But the police officer suspects it is not an ordinary butt (evidently…

Overheard in the comments at Reason Magazine. ultimately we are still dependent on looting wealth from mother earth. Holy fuck you’re stupid. We loot from the SUN, you moron.

Richard Feldman sends me e-mails. One he sent me today links to this piece (read the whole thing it is really good) which asks: …school shootings, such as the nauseating and heartbreaking spectacle we saw yesterday, are seemingly on the rise — as are other mass shootings, such as that which afflicted Aurora, Colo. earlier…

Republicans are having a hard time with religion. Well not actual Republicans actually. The problem is that the Republican emphasis on religion denies them votes. Some Republicans are making an effort to do something about it. Since the 1980s, organizations like Focus on the Family, the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition cemented religious conservatives…

I got an e-mail from Commentary Magazine with the breathless announcement: Christine Rosen reviews Naomi Wolf’s Vagina Ii wonder if that will be in the “Food and Dining” section?

I wrote a bit on what sustainability means. “Sustainability” is inherently unsustainable. You might find it amusing. One commenter had this to say: It is always nice to start a day with a very tongue in cheek commentary. I wrote the piece in order to smoke out the Malthusian mass murderers. I did catch a…