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Some of you might like to know what I have been doing these days. Lots of electronics work. I’m a designing fiend every day, all the time. When I’m not designing I’m building my designs. My latest is a power supply for powering the things I’m building. You can read about it and see a…

Well, it’s now 11:22 p.m. and I have yet to write a blog post (including this one). I dragged myself out of bed when it was dark and for the rest of the day it’s been GO GO GO, and I hate my damn 3-mile run almost as much as I hate cranking out a…

Politicians and their friends in the news media have an unending penchant for stirring up hysteria, and I think a story linked by Drudge earlier is a great example. It seems that a teenage girl with a heart condition managed to ingest more caffeine than her heart could handle, and she died. The fallout has has…

Another debate? The final debate? Do I have to watch it? Apparently, yes. Romney is said to be in the lead now, but not in crucial Ohio, which the conventional wisdom (and political history) says he has to win. Hope he kicks ass again by remaining firm and being disarmingly nice at the same time, which…

If you live in a leftie town like I do, you have probably seen the usual signs about “controlled burns,” the “restoration of native species,” and “Natural Area Preservation.” Nonsense. Here in Ann Arbor, the intent is not preservation, much less conservation. It is wholesale destruction, often by clear cutting, poisoning with herbicides, and fire.…

Remarking on the upcoming election, a libertarian friend I super respect is hoping that Romney will win, not because the man is a libertarian (far from it), but because it will make it more fun and constructive to be a libertarian. Let me quote from the email: Being a libertarian can be fun again, when…

What I liked in 1970, YouTube enables me to like today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvq2JTWdJ1U&feature=related What’s the world coming to that it didn’t then?

Remember all the talk of how government-sponsored “green jobs” would save the economy? Because of the way the government gets its money, “government sponsored” ultimately means financed by taxpayers, with no one in particular being in charge. So the “workers” sit around: HOLLAND, Mich. (WOOD) – Workers at LG Chem, a $300 million lithium-ion battery…

Whether you like them or not, personal attacks on celebrities (especially people who enter politics) have long been a thing to be expected. (Hell, when I was irritated by her obvious bias, I compared Candy Crowley to Jabba the Hutt, so I am hardly squeaky clean in that regard.) However, what many people (myself included)…

While  I mentioned her in a blog post, the only thing I have read about Green Party candidate Jill Stein were a few other than than mainstream news report about her arrest outside the latest Romney-Obama debate. …Stein and Honkala were held for eight hours, handcuffed to chairs. Regardless of what you think of the…

In last night’s debate post, I opined that Candy Crowley “looks like a malevolent female version of Jobba the Hut.” At least one commenter did not like it, so today I feel obligated to apologize. First off, I should never have said that Candy looks like “Jobba the Hut.” As even the most simple-minded SciFi…

Not Safe For Work and for the color impaired: Not Safe For Work FWIW I’m voting for Gary Johnson and Jim Gray. I live in Illinois. I have a “free” vote.

Tonight’s debate is a big deal. Obama is said to be ready to get nasty, and he will focus on women. Do I have to watch? Can’t I just skip it? I guess I’ll just have to see. MORE: Candy Crowley (who looks like a malevolent female version of Jobba the Hut) is doing all…

I don’t know how many readers will remember Harry Truman (who left office before I was born), but one of the things I liked about him was a slogan he popularized about taking responsibility for things that went on. “The buck stops here.” There is something refreshing about that point of view.  By today’s standards,…

I’ve complained in this blog about the damned EPA till I’m blue in the face. Amazingly, my complaints have not have much impact, as the agency continues its unconstitutional practices willy-nilly. So all I can do is analyze. The latest outrage is not new, but I hadn’t heard about it until I stumbled across it…

It is a depression. Except for the cronies.

Quick question. Have you ever joined a group that you did not join? Silly as it may sound to pose the above question, it happens all the time. On Facebook. People with zero affiliations with — or even knowledge of — particular groups are publicly made members of them without their consent. All it takes…

As there is no limit to the number of willfully gullible people who are looking for things that confirm what they want to believe, I expect that false flag operations like the guy photographed wearing a racist “pro-Romney” T-shirt will appear from nowhere to become ubiquitous in the very near future. Clue #1: Wearing a “Romney/Ryan” sticker…

So far Polywell Fusion is a government program. Well I guess no organization is monolithic. This is a good place to see a lot of comments on the subject.

I think it’s kind of cool that a band I loved as a child is still going strong enough that they can crank out a decent tune. I refer to the Rolling Stones’ latest release, “Doom and Gloom.” Here’s the video (one of them, anyway): Bear in mind that these are being pulled off Youtube right…