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My friend Karridine reports: Friends, Good news, less-good news… The less-good news is, there’s no NEW flooding hitting us in the Bangkok river-delta flood-basin, and that’s FINE for now. The GOOD news is, we took flood-relief out to affected Thais (and others) in the Bangkok area this last week, because BAD news is that much…

“ONLY TRAINED LAW-ENFORCEMENT PROFESSIONALS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CARRY GUNS” So proclaims Glenn Reynolds sarcastically, as he links the latest news item about some incredibly inept gun handling by Milwaukee police: According to a criminal complaint released Thursday, Edwards was in line at Auntie Anne’s pretzel shop when he reached into his back pocket for his…

I was deeply disappointed to read that not only might the world not actually end on December 21, 2012, but that the evidence doesn’t even show that it’s what the Mayans believed: Trying to determine how 2012 — specifically, Dec. 21, 2012 — turned into a worldwide doomsday watch is a thankless pursuit, although the…

This is a confirmation of Eric’s point in Remember Pearl Harbor. Too many people think that stuff like that will never happen again. They have already been proven wrong.

Liberals love the Government tit. But so do conservatives. The difference? Liberals love the left tit and conservatives love the right. Some difference.

After 70 years, the date still lives in infamy, and even though the survivors have gotten so old that they will have to disband their group, it is important that we remember. Too many people think that stuff like that will never happen again. They have already been proven wrong.

The book: Beyond Politics – Why Government Fails

I have a new one up at ECN Magazine, I Love The Sound Of Hetrodyne Whistles. It is an evaluation of an electronics kit suitable for kids (perfect for the holiday season). And I also discuss how my love of electronics came about. Cross Posted at Power and Control

When I first read about the family whose home was destroyed by a fire while firemen stood there and watched, I was upset. Apparently they failed to pay a subscription fee, so the result is that they didn’t get emergency fire services: A Tennessee couple helplessly watched their home burn to the ground, along with…

Funny thing I’d be talking about generators the other day. This morning shortly after six I was awakened by my (two) APC UPS units beeping rudely, which they do when the power goes out. So I turned off the APC units. Not long after that, I heard a strange a deep “POP” sound some distance…

This short video explains the “news”.

Story here.

As criminalization of homosexuality strikes me as an inherent violation of human rights, I was glad to see that the United States is at least trying to stop it: President Obama issued a memorandum directing American agencies to look for ways to combat efforts by foreign governments to criminalize homosexuality. As I have said before,…

The DA in Houston, Pat Lycos, is no longer prosecuting drug pipe residue cases. The police in the area (10,000 strong) don’t like it. They called it the War on Drugs; to cynics, it was the new Jim Crow.  The national policies against illegal drug use in the 1990s had the pernicious effect of wholesale…

I sleep and work in a 10ft by 10ft bedroom. This is my favorite part: The title of this post came from this song. About 1:15 in.

I’m not writing politics so much these days because I’m doing Electronics. My latest is here: Electronic Tools (software) – mostly free. And a little electronic music (and singing) to go with your tools. and

Yesterday I found a power washer which a neighbor was discarding. The power washer pump is broken, but it has a perfectly good 5.0 horsepower Honda OHC engine. The thing is on a nice cart with rubber wheels, which makes it very easy to move, so I thought about pulling the pump and transforming it…

Discussing the latest TSA horror (involving an elderly woman in bad health who was injured during a TSA stripdown search) Mark Steyn makes an important observation: America is now a land where 85-year old grannies are strip-searched without probable cause. You’re extremely naive if you think that, once government acquires a taste for that, it…

I have been getting on nostalgia kicks lately, and it has long fascinated me how this country survived for so many years when drugs (including highly addictive drugs like heroin and cocaine) were sold freely over the counter or in the mail without prescription. That sort of grotesque liberal excess ended in 1914 with the…

One of the reasons people got sick and tired of alcohol prohibition was the way it corrupted everyone. That’s the way it is when you make a crime out of things that humans consume. The consumers and suppliers are criminals, and because consumers can be anywhere, prohibition leads to corruption of the enforcement classes. Lots…