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My house is located in one of Berkeley’s “conservative” neighborhoods. Just out of curiosity, I thought I would check to see how well John McCain did. In my precinct, he got nearly 5% of the vote, or 19 out of 521 votes, to be exact: President And Vice President Consolidated Precinct Number: 201300 Includes precincts:…

From time to time when I lived in the Bay Area in the late 60s and early 70s I would visit with the folks at an art/architecture collective called the Ant Farm. This was the heyday of the water bed and the Ant Farmers were big into vinyl. Not for fetish purposes but as a…

Fred is hilarious. Sadly. (about 8 1/2 minutes) You can keep Fred’s videos coming by donating to Fred PAC. Cross Posted at Power and Control

“YOU REALIZE, OF COURSE, THAT THIS MEANS WAR.” I don’t know what was more of a shock — reading that chilling declaratory remark from Glenn Reynolds or reading the underlying reason: In his latest tape Ayman Al-Zawahiri warned America to convert to Islam and give up beer. Damned if Glenn isn’t absolutely right. As the…

The economy of Zimbabwe is collapsing due to the policies of its President for Life Robert Mugabe. In another sign of the turmoil, the government rejected a ruling by a regional court that demanded Zimbabwe stop seizing land from white farmers. The government instead will speed up efforts to take land remaining in whites farmers’…

I was reading a post by Bob Owens about concealed carry of fire arms for self defense. Bob suggested that the first thing to do was to have a look at the US Marine Corps rules for gunfighting. Here are the first few rules: 1. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring…

Reading through the various accounts of the Mumbai terror attack, I was suddenly struck by how easily everyone (including myself) was fooled into thinking that this was primarily a “hostage-taking” operation. Nonsense. It was a murder operation, and the terrorists used the “hostage” meme to full advantage: Evidence was emerging last night that the the…

Well not sand exactly. Silicon nanowires. Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices. The new technology, developed through research led by Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, produces 10 times the…

Is left-wing Obamamania on the wane? Be sure to read my Pajamas Media piece on the subject and find out! I won’t spoil it, but I came precariously close to comparing Barack Obama to Humphrey Bogart. My thanks to Pajamas Media for the opportunity!

I knew this was coming, but I hated to see it just the same. Kim du Toit and his wife Connie (aka The Mrs.) have stopped blogging. Both are friends, and Connie has been a regular commenter here for years. Glenn Reynolds says, simply (about Kim), He’ll be missed. He sure will. And I’ll miss…

I’m neglecting everything right now, simply because of the things I’m neglecting! Tough to explain, but I haven’t had much time. However, I wanted to thank the commenters to this post for offering advice on how to salvage old VHS tapes — expecially “guy on internet” who advised me not to screw around with dedicated…

The Drug War in Mexico as chronicled by Newsweek is starting to cross the US border. Late one night in January, an ambulance escorted by five unmarked squad cars pulled up to Thomason Hospital in El Paso, Texas. Out leaped more than a dozen armed federal agents to protect the patient–Fernando Lozano Sandoval, a commander…

I have pretty much shown in a number of posts that government involvement in marriage, in making drugs illegal, and in running schools were the innovations of radicals. Those solutions to the problems they addressed don’t seem to be working well. So why don’t we do the conservative thing and go back to the old…

The Swiss are giving in to the junkies. GENEVA (AP) – Dr. Daniele Zullino keeps glass bottles full of white powder in a safe in a locked room of his office. Patients show up each day to receive their treatment in small doses handed through a small window. Then they gather around a table to…

Mexico is having some success in fighting the drug traffickers that are causing so much trouble for Mexicans and their government. President Felipe Calderon and his government defended their fight against public corruption and drug trafficking Friday, asking for greater powers to go after organized crime. They conceded that most Mexicans feel unsafe and that…

Fifty Percent of the violent crimes committed in the districts occupied by Mexicans, Greeks, Turks, Phillipinos, Spaniards, Latin Americans, and Negroes may be traced to the use of marijuana. – Harry Anslinger head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. And that is just one thing you can learn from watching this video. Part 2 Part…

In light of yesterday’s post about drunken sex being treated as rape, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised to see that the woman charged with having sex in a Minnesota men’s room is now turning up the volume on the victim claim: MINNEAPOLIS – While police say a high-profile indecent conduct case in the Minneapolis…

Sgt. Mom writes about some history she learned in her travels in the English countryside and its implications for the current troubles in Mumbai. Not for the faint of heart or those with delicate sensibilities. But not much that has gone on in India the last few days is. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Well this is a very different kind of pot for archaeologists. What they found was a marijuana stash. OTTAWA – Researchers say they have located the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China. The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly “cultivated for psychoactive…