Been deadlining this week and it doesn’t stop. Thinking of you all, though.
Big Second-Amendment guy, Alan Korwin, is making news with a big First-Amendment case.
You can always count on the FBI … to be just 61% accurate in its mass-homicide stats. Heck, they could save taxpayers’ money by using random chance. Oh. Maybe they did.
“By threatening their lives as well as their budgets, Obama has created a huge class of losers, who statistically overrun the small class of winners and outweigh them in savvy…”
BTW. Still working on the candle-heater experiment. First trial was a spectacular bust and deadlines have prevented me from getting back to it. Hoping to try again this weekend.
You already know this, don’t you? Nevertheless, it never hurts to be reminded of the four magic statements to make to the police when you’re stopped and they want to poke around and see what they might be able to pin on you.
Mostly for the nerds hereabouts: Rethinking cloud storage (and in particular, rethinking SpiderOak).
Solid scientific evidence for intelligent design! Erm, that is design by fish.
Finally, Chaser — the famous border collie who can identify more than 1,000 objects by name and understands simple sentences is now the subject of her very own book. (Link is to an interview with Chaser’s owner/trainer, who’s pretty exceptional himself. Windsurfing and biking at 85!) You can of course get the book here. Video below and at the interview link.
In the meantime, assuming you can buy insurance at all, maybe you can get it for free! It seems that the U.S. is developing a kind of ideal income level where you can a) live reasonably well while b) maximizing your tax-provided benefits. Millions more will surely aim for this welfare-state version of “success.” Cockapoo nation!
But some proud traditionalists will not go happily into that EZ future.
Anybody could have predicted that the so-called Consumer Finance Protection Bureau would end up as yet another spy agency. But who would have been cynical enough to think that would be among its main missions from the get-go? Uh. Well. Only people with a brain.
Uh oh. The old assassination market idea gets new life in the age of TOR and bitcoin. Somehow, I don’t think this is going to go any better than it went for Jim Bell.
Looks as if Catching Fire is going to be as good as the first Hunger Games movie. Interesting, too, how this reviewer automatically uses terms making parallels with today’s USA.
Yet another devoted Obama supporter laments his fate under the wheel of Obamacare.
Some good news in that regard: The percentage of poll-answering Americans who think that the fedgov should be responsible for health care vs the percentage of those who say no way has flip-flopped nicely. Let’s hope permanently.
Finally, here’s a bit of strange cheer: The Heidelberg Project brings outsider art to some of Detroit’s worst places.
I’m a few days late finding this, but J.D. Tuccille gives new dimension (and his always cheery Outlaw spirit) to a topic that’s been much discussed in these parts: “Why not opt out of government control?”
Chase isn’t the only bank in trouble. How much longer will it be before these “troubles” finally have their natural consequence? (Via S.)
Why the Brits (though presumably not the British readers of Living Freedom) love Big Brother.
The Obamacare Dozen. That is, the vulnerable Dems who now wish to heck they hadn’t voted for the thing and are now doing backflips to save their own asses. Heh. Maybe those are the people Obama pledged to “help” when he made his grudging non-apology the other day. He sure didn’t mean he wanted to help us survive the consequences of his tyranno-idiot ways.
As mentioned earlier, I’m not holding a fundraiser or hoping for Christmas gifts this year.
I do hope you’ll my Amazon links for all your online Christmas shopping.
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Beyond that, I hope you’ll consider sending holiday bounty to EDITEDJoel’s Eyeball Fund. Use the bolded link, scroll down, then click the donation button on the right. Our entertaining hermit buddy is managing his glaucoma, but he’s going to need expensive cataract surgery. And right now he can’t even afford his winter’s oatmeal.
I’ve removed two other donation recommendations, one because its campaign is over, the other because it has met, and more than met, its fundraising goal.
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If you’re still inclined to send something my way, I won’t turn it down and I’ll be grateful. But please think of me only if you have extra.
Here’s the PayPal button. It gives options for both one-time and recurring contributions:
If you want to snail something, you’ll need my new snailing address; last year’s won’t do.
Such a sign of our times that the only public figures telling the truth are comedians.
It reminds me of my favorite quote from when I was young and read Deep Thinkers. This one’s from Soren Kierkegaard:
“A fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that’s how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it’s a joke.”
