Of the new Omni-bust budget deal Jim Bovard sez: “Republican congressional leaders are like a football coach who believes the secret to winning is to punt early and often.” Rand Paul sez stop the bill — and he has some fairly decent ideas for alternatives. OTOH, Marijuana.com sez there are a couple of decent provisions in the 2,000 page monster sellout. On the other other hand, the USPS announces a completely unsurprising but curiously retro policy on carrying publications that contain — gasp! — ads for the dreaded Demon Weed. One wonders why they couldn’t have just kept their mouths…
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It’s ignoble to admit it. Or rather, it’s ignoble to feel it but I might as well admit it. I’m feeling grouchy and vindictive today and glad somebody “got what was coming to him.” The somebody is my felonious acquaintance D. He finally got the sort of prison sentence he’s been looking for. I wrote about D. last summer after learning he’d been arrested — again — and was this time facing a life sentence. He didn’t get life. But recognizing a three-strikes catastrophe looming, he plea-bargained and is now serving 8 years. His first-degree assault charge was dropped to…
16 CommentsOffer #1: Super Gift Subscription 25% off a one-year gift subscription plus your recipient also gets all six 2015 issues of the ‘zine as a bonus. Offer #2: Half off on anthologies and Jackie Clay books Here. Both offers are good through this Sunday, December 20. NFI on my part; just happy to promote “the boss” (who, BTW, did not ask me to do this). Helps that these are both terrific deals. 🙂
Leave a CommentWhatever you think (or whether you think) of Caitlyn Jenner, this is good. Seems Caitlyn refuses to toe the politically correct line on victimology. Meet the lobbyists who represent the world’s worst dictators to Your Representatives in Washington. I failed to acknowledge two very big historic dates earlier this week. First, the ratification of the Bill of Rights. Second, the Boston Tea Party. Here’s an interesting retrospective on the tea party. (Amusing how the Brahmins downplayed it.) And here’s an eyewitness account. You, too can evade the no-fly list. (Well, maybe. I’m sure this wouldn’t work for international flights where…
9 CommentsWith Christmas cheer warming up and possibly even some chestnuts roasting over open fires, it seems like time for a little lite stuff. (Cheerfully stolen from furrydoc) A song for politicians and v*ters everywhere (Source; per Laird in comments) And a modern freedomista Christmas classic from Neema Vedadi and FreedomFeens (with Ben Stone aka Bad Quaker as Santa). (Source) And finally … Decorating with Canine from Brigid at Home on the Range.
18 CommentsYes! We must ban guns. So that gangs of robbers will have to use alternatives. (H/T MJR) Obama cynically decries cynicism. ISIS judge says kill all the “defective” children. I guess Middle Eastern mommies and daddies should be glad it’s being done by “humane” methods rather than public beheadings or burning the infants alive in cages. Patrick Buchanan asks whether elites will blow up the GOP. He then proceeds to chronicle how the GOP has already been blown up. Interesting glimpse at history and (these days non) smoke-filled rooms, though. It’s always hard to tell a real crisis from one…
12 CommentsDoes anybody — anybody? — remember just 22 years ago when microbrewers Bert and Sherry Grant were hounded mercilessly by the ATF for daring — those foul, vile, deadly criminals! — to put nutritional labels on their ale? Well, this time next year the FDA is going to start mercilessly hounding microbrewers who — those foul, vile, deadly criminals! — fail to put nutritional labels on their products. (Via Tam). Ah, the land of the free and the home of the overgoverned! Ain’t it grand? I wonder if the FDA checked first with the ATF to see whose contradictory book…
7 CommentsThe Daily Kos has proposed the detailed firearm confiscation plan the NYT and other more delicate souls have been tippy-toeing around. It’s comprehensive. It’s brutal. It takes no prisoners multi-millions of prisoners. With no due process. After a mere quick skim I can spot a dozen reasons that while it would turn streets bloody from Miami, Florida, to Homer, Alaska… it still wouldn’t damnwell work. If “work” means eliminate firearms. For eliminating firearms, it’s completely, wildly laughable. Though I admit it would certainly be excellent at creating both civil war and tyranny. How ’bout a Commentariat fisking, guys? Go for…
32 CommentsP.J. O’Rourke makes the half-hearted case. 😉
11 CommentsHow to escape the culture of mass deception (via RLW in comments). Written from a conservative, not libertarian, perspective. But the basic point is good. Thailand investigates the U.S. ambassador for lèse-majesté — because he criticized lèse-majesté arrests. Never, but never, ever, did I think anybody would say this about marijuana. Never. Ugh. Big data to be the next trillion-dollar business? Oh, please … Socks. Containing urine. Circulated by walking. Generating electricity. Just because you’re inept and unprepared, buddy, doesn’t mean the rest of us are. (Still, the certification process sounds horribly inadequate if it was anything like he describes.)…
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