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As Moe Lane documented in August, the DEA (the front line outfit in the War on Drugs) is a major partner in the “Fast and Furious” scandal, and wants to avoid at all costs being the fall guy: It would appear that the DEA does not want to be the fall guy in Operation Fast…

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Glenn Greenwald is having a look at Steve Jobs and how illegal drugs ruined his life. It’s fascinating to juxtapose America’s reverence for Steve Jobs’ accomplishments and its draconian drug policy with this, from the New York Times‘ obituary of Jobs: [Jobs] told a reporter that taking LSD was one of the two or three…

Now that Herman Cain has moved into the number two position, I thought I would try to ascertain his position on the War on Drugs. From an Atlantic interview: So what if the root cause is the demand for drugs here in the United States? If the root cause is demand in the United States,…

If they are to win in 2012, Republicans are going to need all the help they can get. Which is why I like the Occupy Wall Street protests. These utterly ridiculous and outrageous people — who in a fit of comical hubris are calling themselves “the 99%” — have even managed to generate a decidedly unsympathetic…

I got an e-mail today from some political organization complaining about the Solyndra deal in these terms. Start with labor costs. Thanks to the influence of labor unions, Solyndra paid its employees an average of about $100,000 per year. In China, a salary of $100,000 is unheard of. Most factory workers get paid about $.80…

Speaking of stepping in it, I would not want to do so wearing these: There is a raging controversy over these uglier-than-crocs shoes (which remind me of a Halloween monster outfit), but I am seeing them worn everywhere in Ann Arbor, and sales have increased tenfold in the past year. Hey, as long as I…

I don’t normally discuss my phobias in this blog, as such discussions usually strike me as self-centered and boring. But in a local park the other day, something happened which has not only inconvenienced me, but grossed me out by activating a phobia I cannot easily control. What happened was that while wearing my running…

I see by this statement that the private pot operations in California are seriously cutting into drug cartel profits. No wonder they needed a Haag to send the message. That is so ironic on so many levels. It is the government that keeps the real profiteers in business. Shouldn’t she be inspecting chopped liver or…

At about 1345z on 8 Oct 2011 my GA144 board booted. I’m going to have a beer and a nap and start in on the software after a good rest. Cross Posted at Power and Control

I realize my posts are few and far between these days compared to what they have been, but I’m utterly delighted, tickled pink, happier than a clam, etc. to see that Glenn Reynolds has interviewed Gary Johnson. The title is “A Libertarian Moment in the GOP? Gov. Gary Johnson On the Politics of the 2012 Election.”…

The small government party is at it again. The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill yesterday that would make it a federal crime for U.S. residents to discuss or plan activities on foreign soil that, if carried out in the U.S., would violate the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) — even if the planned activities are…

Most of the time when I look at the polls to see how the various Republican presidential candidates are doing, I am trying to get a handle on which one seems to have the best statistical chance to beat Obama. That continues to be Mitt Romney, which really isn’t surprising. Today I decided to look…

I’m putting together a work bench to do experiments on the GA 144 processor. I dug my oscilloscope out of (warm, dry) storage and powered it up for about an hour. Everything was fine at the beginning and then I hear a crackling and smoke is pouring out of the unit. And you know how…

You’ve all heard about the current fuss. By definition, the top corporations in the Fortune 500 would be the epitome of evil, right? Especially, such malefactors of great wealth as number 35 on the list? So why are all these clueless Americans mourning the death of a key major mover and shaker in an evil world…

I am rather fortunate to have grown up in the hacker era. To have heard of Steve and Woz before they became household names. The lights are going out. A lot of us were reaching for the brass ring Steve captured. Way to go guy. And lucky (and very good) you. You will be missed.…

Are there levels of privacy? It’s like, I have been writing this blog for over eight years, which is a long time by most people’s standards, right? I am not going to stop writing it — if for no other reason than it is a daily exercise. But is this blog relevant to things I…

Well it says so at this ABC News link. Nothing up at Conservatives For Palin yet. National Review has it. I’m one sad puppy today. About politics. But I do feel rather GA 144. Cross Posted at Power and Control

The moral I got from watching Part 3 of “Prohibition” a movie by Ken Burns, is that when the influence of the moralists wanes and the government needs money it will scrap prohibition in favor of commerce. Especially if the bodies are piling up in America. Mexican bodies? Not Our Problem. Where are we with…

While the latest poll news is being viewed mainly in the context of Herman Cain rising while Mitt Romney is falling, what worries me the most is the meteoric rise (I mean that in the sense of rising from nothing) of New Gingrich: The man is poised to set himself up as the reasonable candidate.…