Author: Simon

Instapundit says that Amazon is having A Big Food Sale. And that you can get some really good deals. So let me ask you. Who buys food like this: Ener-G Foods Chocolate Chip Potato Cookies, 9.6-Ounce Packages (Pack of 6). Or as a Jedi Master once said, “How you get so big eating food of…

I got this clip from Transform where they explain a bit about the show. …debate drug legalisation/regulation with Anne Widdecombe MP on David Frost’s Al Jazeera show; ‘Frost over the World’. This was significant in that the show is broadcast to an audience we rarely access – 140 million households internationally (although not, presumably, anything…

Says Alan Boyle in his most recent Cosmic Log. So what’s behind the seemingly sudden interest? Part of the buzz is dictated by the calendar. After 12 years of construction, the world’s most powerful laser is finally finished at the National Ignition Facility in California, and VIPs are getting a look at some of the…

A friend of Joe Biden’s daughter claims to have video of her snorting cocaine. The daughter’s name is Ashley. The video is for sale. The New York Post and Radar online reported that lawyers representing the seller claimed that the footage was of Ashley Biden, 27, a social worker, at a party and initially wanted…

Hizballah has set up shop in Mexico and a few points south. It seems they are interested in taking advantage of a business opportunity. Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S.…

America has an industrial strength system for producing criminals. Senator Jim Webb is not happy about it. America’s criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace. Its irregularities and inequities cut against the notion that we are a society founded on fundamental fairness. Our failure to address this problem…

Agora Financials has something interesting to say about Polywell Fusion. “Polywell fusion technology could be the biggest monkey wrench in the history of markets,” writes our technology adviser Patrick Cox. If you’re unfamiliar (we certainly were), fusion is often tagged as one potential “fuel of the future.” Instead of splitting atoms, like the nuclear fission…

H/T Commenter Wes from Four Times As Much Cross Posted at Power and Control

Now if only we had a few more like him in the US. H/T National Review Cross Posted at Power and Control

I just learned from Dr. Helen that Amy Alkon “The Advice Goddess” needs some readers. You can start here. If you want to do more, Amy has a book Free Advice. Read it. Cross Posted at Power and Control

A nice graphic to go with my previous post Four Times As Much. The graphic was originally done by The Washington Post. H/T Instapundit Cross Posted at Power and Control

It seems that the Government of Mr. Obama has plans to run up a debt four times as big as George Bush did. President Barack Obama’s budget would produce $9.3 trillion in deficits over the next decade, more than four times the deficits of Republican George W. Bush’s presidency, congressional auditors said Friday. The new…

Cold fusion is back in the news. If cold fusion can be made to work, it could power the world cheaply on a virtually limitless supply of seawater. But scientists don’t even know if it’s possible. Now a new study has produced evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the new name for…

You can see it coming. The next big bubble. Marijuana. Why do I say that? Because there are courses available at Marijuana University on how to profit from the coming boom in quasi legal marijuana. Under a microscope, it’s easy to tell really good marijuana from schwag. Look for trichomes. On the best pot, they…

A little Tea Party Music maestro. Goddamn, well I declare, have you seen the like? Their walls are built of cannonballs, their motto is Don’t tread on me. Come hear Uncle John’s Band playing To the tide, come with me, or go alone. Cross Posted at Power and Control

This is exactly what is wrong with the Republican Party. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley criticized the Obama administration Thursday for moving to loosen restrictions on medical marijuana. At a gathering to discuss health care reform, the Iowa lawmaker criticized the Justice Department’s new policy of targeting California’s medical marijuana distributors only if they violate both…

Some people think this is torture. Last week, the Daily News reported that the board had introduced a proposal to ban genital waxing in New Jersey’s spas and salons, something the board claimed was already illegal but never spelled out in the regulations. The board cited public safety as a main issue, saying that two…

Click for larger view A picture is worth 1,000 words sometimes. Sometimes it is worth a trillion dollars. This one could be worth even more if it explains global temperatures better than the IPPC’s computer extrapolations. This graph is the work of Syun-Ichi Akasofu who has a few words on climate. Akasofu is one of…

guy on internet had something interesting to say in response to Welfare For The Rich. All consumption-based tax credits are “for the rich,” or at least the not-poor. You have to buy them, while whatever poor people buy a disproportionate lot of gets “sin” taxed at above the highest marginal income-tax rate. That’s not all…

It looks like we not only have Welfare for the Rich. We have another case of the same welfare. Want a $50,000 electric sports car? Have we got a deal for you. When Tesla formally announced the Model S Sedan last June, the MSRP bandied was about $60,000 for the all-electric sedan. In its newsletter…