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And just take the drug war–please!

The saddest thing of all in our post 9/11 nightmare, aside from our government’s treasonous emulation of Communism (complete with Stasi-style surveillance, and their use of former Soviet sites in Poland, Afghanistan, and probably Lithuania, not to ...

From THOREAU, Unqualified Offerings,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Al-Qaeda

I give up

There are sophomore physics majors in my lab class who, after 8 experiments, still have to ask how to calculate a percentage uncertainty.  If they take several measurements and determine (1) the average of those measurements and (2) the uncertainty ...

From THOREAU, Unqualified Offerings,  21 Nov 2009

The wedding bells of Texas…

All those Texans who thought they were married will now have to go to another state and get married all over again.  They’ll spend money on caterers, dress designers, priests, cake decorators, wedding planners, musicians, and numerous other creative ...

From THOREAU, Unqualified Offerings,  19 Nov 2009

Buzzword-backed securities?

I find myself using buzzwords occasionally in work, most recently when I wrote a letter of reference for a colleague.  I don’t use them very much, and I never fool myself into thinking that the buzzwords are necessarily very meaningful, but if I ...

From THOREAU, Unqualified Offerings,  18 Nov 2009

Crack rock, rolling paper, switchblade

I think that rock, paper, scissors is a good analogy for the Drug War.  There are 3 players:  The government, the drug dealers, and the non-gangster businesses (whether large corporate weed farms or local organic coca growers) who could enter the ...

From THOREAU, Unqualified Offerings,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Taliban,  Crips,  Bloods

Just get in the crate already

Ladies and gentlemen, I have just spotted the most tender, juicy cut of veal ever seen on the face of the earth:  At the start of a midterm, a student looked at a diagram with two objects and asked “Which one is the right and which one is the left?” ...

From THOREAU, Unqualified Offerings,  13 Nov 2009

The Trial of K. Sheik Mohammed

As Greenwald notes, the federal government has decided to allow due process for terrorism suspects…if they think they can secure convictions in the regular court system.  If they don’t think the regular court system is guaranteed to convict?  Then the ...

From THOREAU, Unqualified Offerings,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency

Flashforward: The Fatal Flaw

I’ve blogged about the TV show “Flashforward” before, and how it will be a challenge to portray people responding to the event in a convincing way.  I was thinking mostly about what people might do at that moment six months in the future:  Why wouldn’t ...

From THOREAU, Unqualified Offerings,  11 Nov 2009

This makes me a horrible person

A friend said that she wants her daughter to attend the best school in the area.  Great.  But she said that the only trade-off is that there will be mostly Asians at the school.  When pressed she said that she just wants her daughter exposed to other ...

From THOREAU, Unqualified Offerings,  8 Nov 2009

Glenn Beck to endorse Ahmadinejad

“Obama, Obama!” protesters chanted on a day marking the 30th anniversary of the United States Embassy takeover. “Either you’re with them, or with us.” The poignant slogan came in contrast to that of nearby government supporters and schoolchildren ...

From THOREAU, Unqualified Offerings,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Glenn Beck,  Barack Obama,  Reza Pahlavi

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