If corporations are persons, then they should be responsible for their crimes, up to the death penalty as appropriate.

If Monsanto had been held responsible for its crimes, it would have been destroyed for […]

This is a guy who should, but won’t, be handled under our newfangled terrorism laws. Arming the people against each other, instructing them to fear and harm each other, is terrorism in its most elementary form.

I return over and over again to KBRD.org, out of Lacey WA.

They are telling us how we are to treat them when their time comes. If we’re lucky, a vengeful God is listening to them as well.

Of course it’s not plausible.

But I’m an engineer and machinist by knowledge, experience and and disposition; and I know from dealing with inherently apolitical materials and construction techniques that the […]

I’m not offering you an explanation of what happened; what I’m saying is that we have three examples of something happening on the same day, in the same place, that has never happened even once anywhere else in […]

The case against the kid is compelling, IF you trust what the authorities are telling you about it. If you can’t trust them (for instance if they have established a pattern of habitual deceit), then you believe […]

Guitars everywhere breathe a sigh of relief that the beatings have paused.

The casualties seem characteristic of a drone attack, an airstrike on a wedding party, or maybe a group of mercenaries going berserk in a populated area.

Why would anyone want to do that to Americans?

She didn’t go to prison or get killed for doing much worse things than people who do. She didn’t live with disgrace or the universal discredit she so richly earned. She lived to the ripe old age of 87.

I […]

Plus, unlike Anonymous, the Israeli government has no qualms about sending someone over to your place to shoot you in the face.

That ship has sailed.

The system has been co-opted. All my life I have seen good people struggle to correct it, and all that has been accomplished so far is for the system to develop new ways to resist the […]

This is awesomely promising, but I won’t hold my breath. I’ve lived through cold fusion, superdupercapacitors, aluminum-air batteries, cheap thin-film photovoltaics, etc. I have breakthrough fatigue, but no […]

Mandatory insurance for guns is one of the best ideas I’ve heard in a long time. Not only would it dramatically reduce gratuitous gun ownership, but it would provide another channel for prosecuting the use of […]

My Southern freezer contains okra, which isn’t available fresh all year long, and fish, which better have been frozen at the first opportunity because I don’t live in a fishing town.

Winter gumbo in the old […]

Just like that. Oh well.

I hadn’t gotten used to the new interface, but I still checked in more or less daily. I have counted on y’all to help sift out current affairs that matter.

Some other time, I guess.

Karma is a real bitch sometimes, eh?

I suppose the sane thing to do would be for all of us to stop driving so much.

Yep. That would largely fix the petroleum supply crisis, and it would also largely fix the most hellish qualities of our cities– […]

Re: Jerry Boykin–

Micropenis will out!

It would do a heck of a lot more good in the big picture if those 1.4 million people gave up their cars and stopped using air conditioning when the ambient temperature is below body temperature.

The power […]