War on Abstractions 24 Aug 2007 As part of the “War on Drugs” an entire family of hydroponics sellers, selling legally available material, were sentenced to prison without parole. Gary Tucker has just been released after a ten year stretch and confiscation of all his goods and money. His brother Steve died of cancer in prison. Why? He refused to allow the DEA to install surveillance cameras in his store to identify his customers. “This isn’t Nazi Germany” he said. One wonders… read the rest. It’s harrowing. Hat tip to the Lippard Blog Politics
History Reality, academe and the liberal bias 21 Feb 2008 The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article discussing a study as to why there are so few conservative academics, in the light of the campaign by conservative activist David Horowitz to propose and “academic bill of rights”. The answer? John Stuart Mill put it best: What I stated was,… Read More
Politics The nightmare of Christianity 10 Sep 2009 … the Republican home schooled authoritarian version of it, anyway. An excerpt in The Nation from Max Blumenthal’s forthcoming book, Republican Gommorah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party. Read More
Humor Fine – you have a decent presidential candidate. Now for the VP 4 Jun 200818 Sep 2017 As an Australo-African ape, Snowflake is happy that one command from him was enough to ensure Obama won the Democrat selection. Now he wants you to ensure that John Edwards is the VP. Edwards will bring many votes and some level headedness to the campaign, without the nasty taste in… Read More
In my area, I’m seeing more and more police crackdowns on just about everything, from DUI, to drugs, to parking tickets. The politicians “war on crime” slogan sells well here, and they’re getting better at finding things to convict you of.