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A member of the Drug Policy Forum of Texas list sent me a link to a short book by Catherine Austin Fitts which I subtitle How The Drug War is Corrupting America. There is an interesting chapter on how people at HUD engineered the mortgage collapse which we covered here at length from a different…

The leftys tell us that if gun ownership is ubiquitous, the levels of gun violence will rise. It does not. It goes down. The rightys tell us that if drugs are ubiquitous, the levels of addiction will rise. It does not. It goes down. Both sides seem to have the same mental illness. Just about…

The USS Enterprise is undergoing its final deployment. It makes me sad. That will be the end of the last vestige of the only nuclear powered task force ever. I was part of that task force as an RO on DLG(N)25 – The Bainbridge. Yankee station in the South China Sea. The Bainbridge and the…

Andrew had some very interesting things to say before his death. This is one of them. Note that next to the first communist speaker is a placard with “Todd Gitlin” on it. He was a radical since his 60s Haight Ashbury days. I used to read his column regularly in “Good Times” when I was…

Eric and I were discussing a book (no I’m not going to promote it for reasons I will not be discussing here) that claimed it could help a woman get any man she wanted. In my experience the getting is not difficult. It is the keeping that takes all the effort. Update: See Eric’s latest…

Eric’s recent article God Bless Pat Robertson, the article it linked to Pat Robertson Blames Liberals for Drug War and Overincarceration, and this New York Times article Drug Policy as Race Policy: Best Seller Galvanizes the Debate suggested by the Drug Policy Forum of Texas list got me to thinking. What has mass incarceration wrought…

I thought it might be useful to look at how illegal drug use/alcohol use/ “abuse” of prescription drugs correlates with PTSD. Here is what the Department Of Veterans Affairs has to say: Anyone who has gone through a life-threatening event can develop PTSD. These events can include: Combat or military exposure Child sexual or physical…

From the Drug Policy Forum of Texas e-mail list: Based on true case synopsis: Houston based drug-addicted attorney Mike and his business partner Paul take on a case involving an emergency room nurse who has been pricked by an infected needle. Uncovering a web of corporate conspiracies, Mike and Paul quickly find themselves outmatched. From…

Well two different owls. Actually two different species of owl. The government is planning on killing one to save the other. And which will the government be killing off? The most successful. Like uh. What else is new? A 1-pound bird attributed to the demise of the logging industry some 20 years ago in the…

I wrote The PTSD Party a while back and today in conjunction with this Breitbart video it got me to thinking. Why did Bill Clinton double (with efforts still rising) Prohibition enforcement during his tenure? He was a “head” while he was in school. Even if he claims he “didn’t inhale”. So he should be…

My fellow bloggers have put up memorials to Andrew Breitbart at The Death of a Titan and Andrew Breitbart, R.I.P.. Frank at the last post – always on top of things – suggested the above video. Thank you Frank. And thank you Andrew. I think there is a very good lesson here. I’m working with…

Just for Leap Day let me set the record straight. I wrote Obama Says: Take Me Seriously. It is misattributed to Dave at the post and here. Corrected in the comments though. I blame it on leaping bits. Some of which died in the leap over the cliff. And were buried in a suitable place…

Delusions of control depend on a system operating with regularity – linear systems. The trouble is that large systems are only linear within a range and small perturbations can become amplified due to local positive feedback. Which is to say that noise is always a problem. But noise contains information and if you suppress it…

Willis Eschenbach has a beautiful post up about the death of a crazy man. A man of the streets who lived life on his own terms. You should read the whole thing. Let me start you off with his opening. I’ve had the privilege of living in a wide variety of countries and societies. And…

What platform do both parties run under? “We know how to run your life better than those other guys.” Well. Really. No you don’t.

When I was a road warrior this was my traveling song. Yeah. “Put me on a plane.”

Ulsterman has a new Insider report. Let me give you a bit of the flavor which echoes Sarah’s most recent screed. UlsterMan: The RedState story? On Santorum’s big government – his less than conservative record? Insider: Yeah – that stupid sh-t your put up on the blog. Knock that sh-t off. Like right now. No…

I was busy last night leaving snips of rage and erudition at various places around the ‘net. The topic is important enough that it deserves some more attention. I touched on it at Fertile Ground. It is the relationship of PTSD to politics. All I can telly you from a personal perspective is that if…

FrackNation on Kickstarter I got a heads up on this from the Ezra Levant blog. You might also wish to have a look at Gasland