Author: Simon

Antismoking crusade has saved 8 million lives in 50 years, study says. Yeah. And it has gone so far that a house for schizophrenics forces them to smoke outside in well below zero weather. Schizophrenics are notorious for their tobacco smoking habit. Nice way to torture the mentally ill. But maybe forcing them to stop…

In an attempt to separate the right from Israel (it might work) Yahoo news is running Pro-Life vs. Pro-Israel. I did a series on the Jewish view on abortion a while back. Here are some links: Letter To A Friend The Jewish Position On Abortion The Jews And Partial Birth Abortion What Is A Fetus…

Government attracts the corrupt. College students who cheated on a simple task were more likely to want government jobs, researchers from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania found in a study of hundreds of students in Bangalore, India. Their results, recently released as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, suggest…

You remember the Gallup Poll where 58% favored pot legalization? The number seemed a bit high. But as a proponent of legalization I was happy with it. There is a new poll out by CNN/ORC that shows 55% favor pot legalization. Not so high. Since they are both within the margin of error of each…

And from there I found this. Which lead me to: wyattmuseum.com What do I think? Interesting story. Top men are working on it. Top men. All this got started from a reading of Our Scary Technocracy. Subtitled: There are no “top men” and there never will be Which reminds me of Friedrich von Hayek’s Nobel…

Well this report from 2000 is interesting. The level of male hormones in the womb can influence an unborn child’s future sexual orientation, according to new research from a University of California, Berkeley, professor who used an unusual technique – measuring finger length – to gather evidence. Marc Breedlove, professor of psychology, also found that…

If pot is legalized government will tax it. Increased government revenues simply lead to increased government spending. What to do? It is obvious. Make everything illegal.

A doctor in Illinois had trouble getting an authorization for a surgery from theObamaCare system. Paperwork problems almost delayed suburban Chicago resident Sheri Zajcew’s scheduled surgery Thursday, but Dr. John Venetos decided to operate without a routine go-ahead from the insurance company. That was after Venetos’ office manager spent two hours on hold with the…

    Every hysteria is driven by confirmation bias.    

The Tablet has the details: How, then, did the quenelle come to be the controversial gesture du jour, the ‘reverse Nazi salute’ that has the world’s attention, and has French Jews (and their American counterparts) crying foul? The gesture was created and popularized by Dieudonné M’bala M’bala, the Cameroonian-French comedian and political provocateur—known primarily by…

Reason commenter (typos fixed): A friend of a friend posted on Facebook yesterday that owning a gun was irresponsible. I said “good to know I am not a responsible citizen”. The guy then asked what my reasoning was for owning a gun. My answer: “feminism”. I love throwing that shit back at them.

Of course the definition of scientists is rather broad. It includes mathematicians and psychologists. You can find the jokes at the Guardian. My favourite (Brit rag dontchaknow): What does the ‘B’ in Benoit B Mandelbrot stand for? Benoit B Mandelbrot. The most incomprehensible (to me): Sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium Batman! If…

I was checking out the title of this post on Google and came across this post: CRIMINAL TERROR CHARGES FILED AGAINST OBAMA which said in part: Several prominent media sources in Egypt are now reporting that Egyptian lawyers have filed criminal terrorism charges in the International Criminal Court against President Obama in addition to the…

Eric sent me a link to Cocaine Is Evil. In the comments some one brought up China’s opium problem. I was recently discussing that issue at Talk Polywell. Eric sent me the link that started that thread. But OK. How about China and opium? Well how about alcohol in America? What does that show? When…

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player The shape shown the most in the video is a tensegrity tetrahedron although they do have snapshots of an icosahedron. I have built tensegrity tetrahedrons. Here is a video how to: And Bucky Fuller (my inspiration) on tensegrity. There are no solids. The whole universe is made of rubber with…

H/T WUWT

I brought up the matter of PTSD from child abuse in another post. So this video clip from a longer video suits my zeitgeist to a T. You can find out more about the video by visiting The Gift From Within. A therapist who has watched the video has this to say: For victims of…

I saw this on facebook: It gave me PTSD and respect for no one.

Some one posted a similar image on facebook. The person is otherwise sane. She is anti-drug war for instance. I left a few comments. Pretend I’m a woman and need continuous government surveillance. It should be done using the Drug War precedent. Weekly pregnancy tests.With a sufficiently strong police state we can end this scourge.…