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• A Wild Animal Problem

  Being a right thinker in the land of lunacy (California, and the Bay Area in particular) has taught me to be a good loser. Since there is precious few of us willing to push back against the perpetual drag towards becoming France or Sweden, all I can do is prepare myself financially,all the while unable to avert my eyes from the slow motion car wreck that will inevitably end tragically. But I can’t say I … Read more

• Shoulda Called Bain

  Risk/reward, success/failure, supply/demand, capitalism and the free market system is not fair, does not play favorites, and does not redistribute wealth. It exists in a predatory state whereby you either sink or swim, no treading water allowed. And nobody or no company is exempt from it’s affects, unless government steps in with it’s Too Big To Fail nonsense, but this post in not about that.

  Some rather big companies are in the news lately concerning … Read more

• A Surplus of Law

  I finally, somewhat belatedly, read Harvey Silverglate’s Three Felonies a Day. The book is a bit different from the title. It doesn’t actually argue that Americans commit three felonies a day. But it does argue that vague laws, ambitious prosecutors, regulatory complexity and the abandonment of mens rea — the principle that criminal charges should be brought only for intentional violations of the law — have created an environment in which massive swathes of … Read more

• Paul? Maybe

  If you thought the Republican establishment was having kittens over the possibility of Gingrich winning Iowa, they are *really* having kittens over Ron Paul potentially winning Iowa. Despite his closeness in the polls, every commentary I’ve seen recently has been of the “he has zero chance” variety, even to the point where Chris Wallace has said that if Paul wins Iowa, it won’t count. David Frum unleashed a hard-hitting and factually questionable critique. Rush … Read more

• Bring Out Your Dead

  What the …:

  The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill, far more than the military had acknowledged, before halting the secretive practice three years ago, records show.

  The landfill dumping was concealed from families who had authorized the military to dispose of the remains in a dignified and respectful manner, Air Force officials said. There are no plans, they said, to alert those

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• Dildo, Or Vibrator?

  Don’t you just hate it when you read some scintillating article and they leave out the pertinent stuff? Thankfully I’ve got my FOIA request, penned and ready to go, but since that new revision of the FOIA I wrote about earlier, I will probably get a response like this ,” Thank you for your request about information on our recent discovery of a sex toy, we regret to inform you that no such incident took … Read more

• The Taibbi Plan

  Matt Taibbi, one of the key members of the More Clever than Smart Club, has an essay on what he would have OccupyWallStreet demand. It’s making the rounds. Let’s go through it. I’ve almost finished reading The Big Short, a book you really should read to understand the recent financial crisis. So this will serve two purposes: responding to Taibbi and talking about what I learned from Michael Lewis.

  1. Break up the monopolies.

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• Tightening the Pot Noose

  Barack Obama smoked marijuana. So did George Bush and Bill Clinton and probably a lot of other Presidents and most of Congress. Just keep that in mind as these hypocrites continue to crack down on legal pot:

  Federal prosecutors have launched a crackdown on pot dispensaries in California, warning the stores that they must shut down in 45 days or face criminal charges and confiscation of their property even if they are operating legally under

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• Gun Owners of America Not Happy With Romney

  I’m a member of GOA. Decided that the NRA long-ago stopped representing my best interests in favor of serving their own political and corporate interests, so I took my money elsewhere. As a member of GOA, I get email alerts at least a couple of times a week about specific legislation or candidates that threaten 2nd Amendment rights, which always have a link to their “Political Action” page that automates writing your Representatives and Senators. … Read more

• Cleaning Up After Santorum

  Whatever I might think about Rick Perry or Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann or Ron Paul or Herman Cain or whoever, I never forget this: at least they’re not Rick Santorum.

  I can usually at least try to see the Culture Conservative point of view. A lot of the time, their arguments — on abortion, gays, drugs — make some sense to me even when I disagree with them. But whenever Rick Santorum opens his … Read more