Author: Simon

Kathy Kinsley reminded me we are having an anniversary today. This is for all of you who believe in the good government can do wishing to forget the evil.  

Mitt Romney slams Hillary Clinton’s call for ‘mass incarceration’ to end. In an interview with Fox News that aired Monday, the GOP former presidential candidate questioned Clinton’s recent call to end the “mass incarceration that we practice.” Clinton, the Democratic front-runner in 2016, made the comment in a wide-ranging criminal justice speech last Wednesday. “What…

Because they might do this. Craig Patty asked his employee Lawrence Chapa to help take one of his two trucks to the garage, not realizing that Chapa was a DEA undercover planning to fill the truck with weed, which ended in a firefight with a Los Zetas hit squad that killed the driver, who was…

Tesla Motors plans to announce that it has solved the biggest problem with alternative energy. Energy Storage. Elon Musk hinted about an announcement for a new product line for renewable energy storage last week, suddenly, that dream became a step closer to becoming reality. “It signals that the storage market is at a point where…

There hasn’t been any music here for a while. Here is some.     Another version recorded at Playboy. Added 3 May 2015 0553z. Yet another version.

An old friend came to town to visit and we had a wonderful time together. What was interesting was her change in attitude towards cannabis. She was never one of those “lock them up and throw away the key” type people. But she was one of those “stay away from that dangerous stuff” types. This…

Well, I always liked Rand Paul’s “End The Drug War” policy. I’m liking his foreign policy as well. As to Assad. Yes. He is an ally of Iran. But if he goes down the Sunnis in the opposition are going to murder a LOT of people who belong to the wrong religion.

I posted my usual   Every tax, every regulation comes with it an army of bureaucrats and behind that an army (with guns) of enforcers   in a thread and got this sterling reply.     a standing army of soldiers, a kneeling army of priests and a crawling army of informers    

OregonGuy in a comment left a link to a discussion of Polywell at Watts Up With That.

The subject of Jazz Clapping came up at Samizdata. So I thought some REAL jazz clapping was in order. Ramsey Lewis Trio The ‘In’ Crowd.

I made an uncontroversial comment on a science blog to the effect that cannabis grows brain cells. To which I got this reply: Weed grows brain matter?? Oh my, what a silly post! So I posted this ten year old Science Daily link along with this reply:     There seems to be as much…

The climate wars are cooling down. And it looks like the “consensus” is in error. Take that Jerry Brown. Let us start with the oceans. The oceans are huge and the atmosphere is small. Thermal mass wise. Once the heat from the sun or the atmosphere goes into the 4°C ocean it is not coming…

Some police officers seem to have been drinking at a strip club and then crashed while going the wrong way on a highway. Two of the four officers in the vehicle were killed. No breathalyzers or blood samples have been taken from the officers. Yeah. It looks like they are not treated the same way…

Pay no attention to the War On Black People says Obama. What does he have against Black People? Modern Prohibition/War on Drugs is the most destructive, dysfunctional and immoral policy since slavery & Jim Crow – says Retired Police Detective Howard Wooldridge – Citizens Opposing Prohibition

We have all heard about the treason petition against the 47 Senators who signed a letter about their Constitutional authority to advise and consent on treaties. Which reminded me of John Kerry. Kerry began his political career by leaving Vietnam after only 91 days to go back to work with a Massachusetts Senator. While a…

Reason has an article about the latest search for victims in order to justify a police state. So I left a comment: Going after dopers is getting less popular every day. “Victims of dope” just doesn’t have the effect it once did. So look for some other “victims of…” to arise. We do have all…

Yahoo is discussing White Racism. Yeah. it is white people all right. What I want to know is why Obama hasn’t ended the War on Black People aka the War On Drugs? Maybe he doesn’t like Black people.

Proof positive that a Clinton Administration will be the most transparent ever.

Now that Net Neutrality is Government Insured.             Extracted from the comments at Samizdata.   Protect Internet Freedom

Nixon went after cannabis to jail his political enemies. The essence of Stalinism. “Look, we understood we couldn’t make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be,…