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Reading about the methanol-related deaths of at least 143 /people in India, my first reaction was to wonder “why in the world would anyone buy such poison?” The answer is that they cannot afford the good stuff sold in government-run liquor stores. So, callused criminal entrepreneurs brew up poisonous rotgut, which contains methanol. The predictable…

From The Air Vent. It seems that the world governments are escalating cliamtegate to the next level. Tallbloke a fellow recipient blog of the climategate emails, and linked on the right, was raided today in what seems to be a coordinated effort by Metropolitan Police, the Norfolk Constabulary and the Computer Crime division and the…

I got quite a kick out of this story about the DC resident who was fined thousands of dollars for not recycling contaminated recyclables: Dupont Circle resident Patricia White says she has been fined eight times for throwing homemade cat litter in her trash. The fines total $2,000. White says she shreds old newspaper and…

Thanks to the latest twist in the endless War on Drugs, new laws are ensuring that patients in chronic pain will be denied pain killers. So they are left to writhe in pain, because doctors are afraid to help. Charles Passantino stared at his doctor in disbelief. A 64-year-old patient with a crippling liver disease, Passantino…

Good news for all you oppressed introverts. According to a study Glenn linked, there may be a drug to make you extraverted: Montreal — First dates, job interviews or Christmas cocktail parties can be stressors for some people. Such social rites of passage have no doubt made shy or introverted individuals wish for a magic…

While I wish we didn’t have to rely on the British press to give us our news, so often it seems that they are the only source for news that ought to be national. As to why the American news outlets shy away from stories like the one about the Predator drone used to spy…

I got a link to the below video from a Town Hall e-mail which referred me to this Ron Paul page. Well maybe they didn’t go libertarian – just anti-Gingrich. BTW it would be interesting to see how Ron Paul’s net worth changed from his time in Congress. He had to pay Town Hall something…

When I read this very thoughtful book review — “Women on Top, Men at the Bottom” — I once again found myself contemplating Kay Hymowitz’s criticism of men who seemingly remain boys. Sit on a bench on the Thompson Hall lawn — the “green” at the University of New Hampshire — and watch the students walk…

In an editorial at PJ Media, Roger L. Simon makes a good case for Newt Gingrich. While I do not take serious issue with anything he says, I have such a serious problem with Gingrich’s status as the nation’s leading Drug War advocate that I did something I don’t do often, and left a comment.…

I haven’t been doing much politics lately (well not as much as I used to) but my latest ECN article, Good Politics, is about correcting an error made by our government in the 30s (it takes the stupids in Washington a while to wise up). And it is relevant to electronics and the whole tech…

Here’s something that ought to amaze and astound everyone. A scientific study has reached a dramatic conclusion: Alcohol fuels the desire to engage in unsafe sex. Got that? Science is catching up to the centuries-old popular wisdom that alcohol lowers inhibitions. I used to think that was one of those truisms. Common sense, even. Now…

No. I didn’t misspell crisis. Because when you understand it you will cry too. Hypothecation ReHypothecation

FYI Newt’s name is not Johnny. Fire On The Mountain

“I want a World War Two style victory plan-a decisive, all out cataclysmic effort to break the back of the drug culture.” Yes, Newt Gingrich actually said that. Please let that sink in. He did not say he wanted a World War Two style war on drugs, but against drug culture. What does that mean,…

Reason’s A. Barton Hinkle has an interesting piece titled “Drug War’s Mission Creep Hurts Farmers: The nation’s drug warriors fret that hemp cultivation would make pot prohibition harder.” A Virginia farmer wants to do what the early Virginian founders once did, and grow hemp. Politis is a retired businessman who now sits on the Board…

I hate it when important details news in events go unreported, especially when it seems that they are being deliberately unreported. Last night when I read about a gunman at Sunset and Vine shooting people at random, I figured he was either a nut or a Jihadist (which is a distinction, even though there is…

There’s a GOP debate tonight. Many of the consensus bandwagon people are drooling with anticipation over Newt kicking Mitt’s butt. As I have said a number of times, I don’t like Romney, but I can’t stand Gingrich. What I like less or cannot stand more does not matter. I have learned that regardless of what…

Three Dog Night. Shambhala Booksellers In Berkeley Closes. It was one of my favorite places when I lived in Berkeley. I bought my first Aleister Crowley book, Magick In Theory And Practice, there.

A bill which would stop the EPA from regulating so-called “farm dust” was recently approved by Congress: The Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act, H.R. 1633, which would prevent the EPA from issuing any new rule over the next year that regulates coarse particulate matter, or “nuisance dust,” passed in a 268-150 vote. Like other environmental bills…

And that is not a cause of indigestion at all. But it is natural. It is shale gas. SHANGHAI (AP) — China is reporting discoveries of major shale gas reserves in its western Sichuan region, a development that could drastically boost its domestic supplies of natural gas and temper demand for imports. State-owned China National…