Chortle! Pro-gunners use gun buyback program to fund a shooting camp. (Tip o’ hat to PT.) Best explanation yet of the LIBOR scandal and its implications. Or are we suffering too much scandal fatigue to care? Here’s James Howard Kunstler’s take: “All this points to a dangerous new period of political history, a deadly Hobbesian scramble to evade the falling timber in a burning house as the rudiments of a worldwide social contract go up in flames.” Agree or not, the man writes like a demon. Yet another reason to avoid airports. I am not delusional enough. Talk about local…
Category: Privacy and self ownership
Owning our own information and telling Big Brother to get lost
Our politicians should be so partisan! (H/T MJR) Another reason to have a dog. Or at least let the kidlets play in the dirt. Sweet dog-and-his-boy story via MamaLiberty. Oy. Now the security state is worried about drone hijackings. Me, I figure some of my friends could make better uses of drones than the gummint ever will. Bacon or bagel for breakfast? Well, if you don’t count the nitrates … Wendy McElroy has a new book out. Sounds like a must-read. Small-scale farming. Not just cool and trendy — but creating a new profit model? Considering relocating offshore? Panama just…
I like what Tam calls her miscellany posts: tab clearing. Sometimes I have so many “Oh! I must write about this!” articles open that there’s nothing to do but just sigh and toss them all out at you in their naked form.* So here goes: Speaking of naked, in the first of today’s Heroic Protectors in Blue items, well, read for yourself. I’d rather not put it in a family publication. If a cop did that to my daughter I’d serve his gonads to the dogs. Second Heroic Protectors item: DHS trains Border Patrol agents to run and hide if…
Proof positive. The Canadian government is as filled with paranoid weirdos as the U.S. fedgov. (H/T MJR.) Is it a good sign that even the mainstream media is starting to notice the DEA’s war on pain patients and their doctors? Speaking of the war on freedom, here’s your question of the day. Eric Holder: Liar, incompetent or both? If you liked J.D. Tuccille’s book, High Desert Barbecue, you might want to give it a v*te. How will the world end? You get to help decide. Not exactly new, but a healthy reminder: Humans may not be the only animals with…
When an American artist came under unjust scrutiny from the feds, he conceived a modern variation of the old “over-compliance” trick originated by 1960s draft protestors. (Video of him giving a talk about it.) (Tip o’ hat to MJR) This is such a cool, clever, innovative idea. Wonder how long before the feds hit it with a drone strike? (H/T C^2) Sharp-eyed Kent spotted this review of Safety Not Guaranteed, the movie inspired by the classified ad written by our own John Silveira. The film was a smash at Sundance, is just coming into theaters, and currently stands at an…
A certain “victim of the American drug war” has wisely said goodbye in her own inimitable style to posting about her experiences as a snitch. Apparently, she’s been in this mood for a long, long time — though I suppose it’s “statist” of me to say so. Speaking of statist, a gifted Virginia schoolboy has been suspended for touching the American flag. We may live in a police state. But at least we can still drink our troubles away. Idaho is going to permit Five Wives vodka to be sold after all. But only after a famous lawyer threatened to…
I’m off for a weekend of wild abandon, debauchery, and carousing. Well, a weekend of going to garage sales, hitting Costco, and spending time at The Mother Earth News Fair, courtesy of Earthineer and Backwoods Home. Which is as close to debauchery as I get, these days. So I leave you with these links and will see you in a few. You may already be on the “do not fly” list — and who knows how many other lists in how many other dark governmental places. But now — something new! You can petition the White House to add you…
Courtesy of Ellendra, here’s an intriguing weekend read for you: “Low-tech solutions to high-tech tyranny” by Brandon Smith: Imagine, if you will, a fantastic near future in which the United States is facing an unmitigated economic implosion. Not just a mere market crash, or a stint of high unemployment, but a full spectrum collapse driven by unsustainable debt spending and hyperinflationary printing. The American people witness multiple credit downgrades of U.S. Treasury mechanisms, the dollar loses its reserve status, devaluation of the currency runs rampant, and the prices of commodities and imported goods immediately skyrocket. In the background of this…
Tech blogger announces he’s leaving the ‘Net for a year. Oh, the freedom. Oh, the boredom! (Tip o’ hat to PT) “Eating well without the flavor of shame.” Not primal per se (who cares about the labels?), but influential people are increasingly walking away from the fedgov’s disastrous notions of “healthy” eating. No longer just something from one of your weirder dreams: xkcd meets Gilbert & Sullivan. An in-depth look back on a Joe Arpaio arson and puppycide. In somewhat lighter dog news: a scientist has figured out a way to read dogs’ minds. Well, read their brain activity, anyhow.…
How many federal laws are there? Let us (try to) count the ways. A rarity in the rare book room. While I doubt that many readers of this blog want to walk down the street looking like this, it’s a brilliant thing that young fashionistas are thinking of avoiding facial-recognition cams. I could picture Jeremy and Cedra got up like that. I know your heart’s in the right place, Downsize DC. But if congressthingies have become so irresponsible and depraved that they don’t bother to read the bills they vote for, what makes you think that writing to the culprits…