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H/T A list I am on which prefers to remain nameless.

Here’s a trailer to a movie that (according to IMDb) I cannot see because it isn’t anywhere in my area: A pity I can’t see it, because the Forbes review called it “The Most Important Drug War Film You’ll Ever See.” It’s a film about the human consequences of execrable War on Drugs and there…

Law student Cody Wilson has made a gun. In his “bedroom”. With a 3D printer. He defends his project (he has released the source code) and why he did it. But some of the most interesting stuff is in the comments. Like this one: Cody should be in jail. The second amendment is so that…

While I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, I’m furious over Facebook’s latest outrage. Via the ever-vigilant Bill Quick, I learned that Facebook has banned the following accurate historical quote from Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi: (NaturalNews) The reports are absolutely true. Facebook suspended the Natural News account earlier today after we posted an historical quote from…

Just as I thought the chorus of blaming anyone and anything but the shooter for the Connecticut school shooting was beginning to wind down, along comes Michael Moore with one of the most idiotic claims yet. He sees racism as being at the root of the problem. No, seriously. According to Moore’s “logic,” the shooting…

Reading this pissed me off. If you’re angry, for the benefit of your health, you need to let it all out, according to a new study that revealed that being hot-tempered and expressing your anger could be a key to enjoying a long and healthy life. Researchers Marcus Mund and Kristin Mitte at the University…

I came across this report and got scared witless. This is supposedly a conversation between two people. One of which is Doug Hagman (DH). DH: Whoa, wait a minute. You just said a mouthful. What’s the agenda here? RB: Your intelligence insider – he knows that we are facing a planned economic collapse. You wrote…

I’m sure it will sound trite, but I wish this country could become post-racial. I don’t discuss race much, but I wish there were no such thing, or at least people were not conscious of it. In theory at least, this country is not racial. But in practice, it has become relegated to being a…

A long while back I wrote a piece in which I quote Graham Greene from his book “Our Man In Havana” where the police chief of Havana explains who is torturable. The poor in my own country, in any Latin American country. The poor of Central Europe and the Orient. Of course in your welfare…

‘Tis the night before Christmas. And all through the house, there’s a creature who’s stirring, ’cause she thinks I’m a louse! I refer to Coco, of course, whom I earlier tried to drag into the spirit of Christmas present against her will. Yes, she squirmed to get away and I held her tightly! Shockingly, I…

That’s how those we call “the authorities” plan to look for deranged gunmen. Am I alone in seeing an obvious problem? It strikes me as painfully obvious that any “cyber-searches of language that mass-casualty shooters have used in e-mails and Internet postings” are going to yield up people who are simply quoting or discussing the language…

H/T Richard Feldman via e-mail

Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter appear in the YouTube video Breaking The Taboo. Their message: prohibition has not worked and is not working. In my estimation they are positioning the Democrat Party to take advantage of the end of Prohibition. Where are the Republicans on this issue? MIA. I predict another 1932 in their future.…

A new generation of weed comedian. We are getting past the Cheech and Chong stage. Thank The Maker. This kind of reminds me of the “drunk jokes” you would hear on TV about 20 years after the end of alcohol prohibition. “Drunk” comedians were quite popular in that era.

The First Mate sent me this one too. My #3 son is an EE at Ipsen. He is in the R&D Department.

The above was sent to me by the First Mate. In a recent conversation she started swearing like a sailor. Not her usual style at all. She excused herself for what we refer to in the family as “Navy Talk”. I said it was OK because she married a sailor. Me. You should have seen…

While researching my inability to get IMDb.com to open, I learned about a fascinating million-dollar-lawsuit that initially made me laugh out loud because it is so obviously frivolous. In 2011 IMDb was sued by an unknown actress for more than US$1 million due to IMDb revealing her age (40). The actress claims that revealing her age…

I have what is probably a simple question for any geek readers who might be reading or lurking. WTF is up with IMDb.com? It has long been one of my regularly visited sites, but in the past couple of weeks it has become all but unreachable. This morning I was just fed up, so I…

And Happy Non-End of the World! I have to say that as a pagan I would have been deeply offended if the world had ended on or near the Winter Solstice. But it hasn’t so I’m not. Enjoy. Wish I could share the IPA I brewed.  

New Yorker columnist Adam Gopnik is a staunch gun control advocate who not only claims gun control will work, but blames those who disagree with him (gun owners and presumably all Americans who oppose gun control) for the shooting in Connecticut. He accuses people like me of belonging to the “child-killing lobby,” and of being…