Author: Simon

I haven’t done a music video here for a long time. This is an attempt to rectify that oversight. The song below “the Spirit of the Radio” describes my experience in the music business when I was the Chief Engineer at WTAO back in the mid 70s. Yeah. Salesmen. They ALWAYS brought coke. I never…

Yep. It is now official. Government is wasting your time. Insurance consultant Robert Laszewski, who has been working with health plans selling insurance on the exchanges, told The Washington Post this week that he wouldn’t even bother using the federal exchange system himself, and would advise others to avoid it. “People are just wasting their…

I frequently rant about American Politics. Especially about how there is little fundamental difference between the two parties. One talks liberty the other talks loot but both are power mad. I think I have come across the perfect definition of the two parties. Most “conservatives” don’t realize it, but they are just liberals and lefties…

In a post about John Bagot Glubb Charles Martel had this to say: The best way to describe Sir John Glubb is “Lawrence of Arabia — but smarter”. He goes on to quote Glubb at length from Glubb’s work “The Fate Of Empires”. I’ll just present the one of the really good parts: “An increase…

You might also like these videos: Karen Straughan at the 2013 NY Libertarian Party Convention Men not marrying? Karen Straughan on YouTube and one of her blog posts My address to the NY state libertarian party convention. This post was prompted by a comment at The Futurist – A Poll On The Misandry Bubble.

I get to visit a lot of strange places as part of my work exploring the net. None stranger than The Real Porn Wiki Leaks where I found Sex Slave Story Revealed to be Fabricated. “My name is Meas Ratha and I am 14 years old. I was born in the province of Takeo and…

Pointman has some excellent thoughts on the subject. You can read them at Know your ultimate enemy : the dream. BTW it is about anti-CO2 fanatics.

Reason Magazine has an excellent page up on Obamacare Software Glitches. The comments are good too. Esp. the bits about software design.

Bob Sykes makes this comment to Eric’s Who are the real criminals? Opponents of the “War of Drugs” always talk about adults and marijuana. But the issue is children and heroin. There will always be some drug and purchaser that people will want outlawed, including people like our blogger and commenter who only smoke marijuana.…

I was reading reviews of The Sex Sphere and came across this Is Sex outside the Sphere of Morality? when I did a search for “Sex Sphere”. It is a “conservative” view of sex morality. You can read it to see what I’m replying to when I say: The biggest cause of single motherhood in…

You might be amused by the comment to a piece I recently wrote for my publisher. I am Among the Most & Least Trusted Professions in America. And just to give you a hint. My least trusted side is journalist.

H/T Frank in the comments.

H/T Colleen on Facebook. Also from Colleen a link to Everything you know about drugs is wrong. At the heart of “High Price” is the argument that current U.S. drug policies are not only morally wrong, but scientifically wrong as well, a game of politics and fear-mongering in which our government sanctions the widespread prescription…

For an alternate view The Storm Ahead in China. H/T Communism vs. Democracy and Markets. Are these the only viable options?

Here is a comment I left at You Can’t Buy Your Way to Social Justice: If you are interested in social justice become an engineer. They have done more for the welfare of humanity than all the politicians and “social justice” types combined. And made a profit at it to boot.

In the comments to Eric’s This should not be happening in the United States. But is this the United States? commenter Scott M said “I wish I knew then what I now know.” Watch this video and you will know it too. About 7 minutes. And worth every second. Oh. Yeah. Pass it on. This…

I’m very interested in time and frequency. One, for technical reasons and two, because when I was a kid it just grabbed me. Quartz crystals are at the heart of most electronic equipment that needs precise time and frequency. It is the “quartz” in a quartz watch. That is changing some with the advent of…

The Un-Civil War: BLACKS vs NIGGERS A disgusted Black man boldly confronts the dysfunctional and criminal subculture (along with their apologists) that exists within the African-American community. This race-realist endeavor exposes many inconvenient truths and will certainly become a catalyst for candid conversation. Flooded with statistics, headlines, pictures and other evidence, this book is not…

Not Safe For Work Which fits right in with Eric’s “Unbelievable Courage” triggers unbelievably pointless and futile argument. Not to mention that some of us (and Eric is Definitely included) are working on the incarceration problem. H/T Zero Hedge

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