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No. This is not some new way to make THC with genetically altered mushrooms. (it is just a matter of time though). It is about a follow up to my story Mutiny In Montana. The Helena Independent Record has a story called Missoula marijuana ‘mutiny’ mushrooms. Call it the Pot Shot Heard ‘Round the World.…

(And I hope comments are too!) One of the things that makes spam such a pain in the ass in blogging is the way it increasingly tends to inhibit the ability to discuss ordinary topics. If you have been blogging for any length of time (I’m going on eight years now), you have no doubt…

One of the first things I read this morning was Steny Hoyer’s accusation that Tea Party supporters have unhappy families: There are a whole lot of people in the Tea Party that I see in these polls who don’t want any compromise. My presumption is they have unhappy families. All of you have been in…

Via Glenn, an interesting Right Coast piece on academics with anger management issues. Schama and Sachs are not isolated cases, of course.  This sort of talk has become commonplace among people who used to be liberal but serious, sophisticated, and certainly not hysterical.  You hear it from public figures like Schama and Sachs, and you hear it…

At the last minute on what we consider to be our Christmas Eve, I got a Christmas tree from Home Depot. I paid only ten dollars, as there were only three trees left, and it was a pathetically scrawny tree. I wasn’t sure that I hadn’t been ripped off entirely, but I considered myself lucky…

Via Ann Althouse, I learned that CNN is all atwitter over Sarah Palin’s retweet of Tammy Bruce’s pro-gay twitter:  Normally, it’s what Sarah Palin tweets that makes news. This time it’s what she has re-tweeted. The former Alaska governor Monday relayed a comment from gay conservative pundit Tammy Bruce, who was expressing her criticism over…

While I like to think that my light bulbs and what I do with them are my own business, as we know, the government does not. So I was delighted to see Glenn’s link to a new rebellion against the ban on incandescent lights in the form of a hot new loophole: Skirting EU law:…

The Myth of American Religious Freedom, which Glenn linked earlier, looks like a great book: In this new and compelling examination of American religious history, Sehat argues that this country did not extend freedom of religion to all, but until recently was controlled by a Protestant Christian establishment that sought to impose its will in…

This morning I read a piece in the Journal about how videogames are changing the economy. Even the entertainment and media businesses will be transformed. That is certainly true. I see it in the way things are advertised, and even in the way people drive. Some younger drivers seem to think they’re in a game…

The above is a screen capture of a very old application I was using back in the days of DOS or was it Win 3.x? Well anyway, it has been updated for Win 7 32/64 and I’m using it on my computer. You can see where the sun is shining and it gives sunrise/sunset at…

In my ongoing attempt to understand the consequences of plunking down hundreds of dollars for a new monitor (which, I am told, would allow me to use a higher resolution than my current 800×600 without having to wear glasses), I have gotten myself more confused than ever. What I do not want to do is…

In a post which touches on a basic difference between the sexes, Dr. Helen notes an irony: “Pretty sad when something all teen males fantasize about happening to them is considered a crime.” This is a typical response to a story linked by Drudge about a mother and daughter who both abused the same teen…

So far it seems the same as it did ten minutes ago, which is probably good! I hope this year is a good one for everybody. Thank you all.   MORE: And since everyone is celebrating, here’s a blast from the past! Grateful Dead New Years Eve 12-31-85

To my first mate and mother of our four children whose hard work has made our relationship better than ever. BFF. More and better dear. Love ya! And of course good wishes to all my readers. The comments and page views make blogging so much fun. Thank you! And the kids wouldn’t like it if…

Via Victor Davis Hanson and Jonah Goldberg (who both do a good job of defending what I would call basic sanity), I found myself drawn to a trainwreck of a piece in the Washington Post by a man named Colman McCarthy. A former Post columnist, he “directs the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington and…

Watts Up With That is looking into complexity and finds prediction in complex situations difficult according to the IPCC. Third Assessment Report: “In sum, a strategy must recognise what is possible. In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled nonlinear chaotic system, and therefore that long-term prediction of…

Every once in a while, I see something that’s music to my ears, and a post Glenn linked — “SoCons” and “Ficons”: It Is Time To Come Together — was one of those times.  What I do want to discuss is the why behind some of the distrust that exists out there between the two groups…

For many, many years, I have enjoyed my screen resolution the way it is, which is 800 by 600. I’m one of those people who can get by without reading glasses, but if I change the settings to the next highest level (1024 x 768), reading text (I’m using a Dell 17 19″ LCD monitor)…

A US Navy Officer has committed suicide over a no drug drug bust. A U.S. Navy officer jumped to his death at Manila’s airport after he was arrested with what was thought to be cocaine, Philippine officials said Tuesday, but tests later showed the white powder wasn’t an illegal drug. Lt. Cmdr. Scintar Buenviaje Mejia…

I was busy at the time (it was the night before Christmas, so I was probably overcome by Seasonal Altruistic Disorder), but Glenn linked a post from Bill Quick which discussed the dominant political paradigm in this country: …the operating theory of political success has essentially been one of bribery. The idea is that one…