May 2010
4 posts
Oil companies have a rich history of U.S.... →
Today, Markey and other critics complain that these policies have cost the U.S. Treasury tens of billions in lost revenue, and led to a reckless search for oil in fragile environments like the deep floor of the Gulf of Mexico. He and others say the unfolding catastrophe at the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded April 20 in a disaster that killed 11, can be directly linked to oil-friendly...
LAPD Interceding in Illegal Downtown Protest... →
This is how it’s done folks. Nobody is getting hurt, just a little inconvenience and LAPD’s finest trying to figure out how to unsnarl the situation.
There is no such thing as an “illegal” protest. Tagging protest as illegal separates protests into boxes - that which is approved by the very forces that are being protested, and thus have become sanitized and de-toothed of...
Christian right leader George Rekers takes... →
headphonesnotrequired:
That man was George Alan Rekers, of North Miami — the callboy’s client and, as it happens, one of America’s most prominent anti-gay activists. Rekers, a Baptist minister who is a leading scholar for the Christian right, left the terminal with his gay escort, looking a bit discomfited when a picture of the two was snapped with a hot-pink digital camera.
Reached by New...
February 2010
3 posts
A New Angle
From my inbox:
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An email to Famima
I was looking for a healthy treat so purchased your Low Fat Strawberry and Blueberry Yogurt Parfait. I had recently read an article in the New York Times about how the FDA is considering making new rules regarding food labelling, and reading the food label on this yogurt, it’s clear why that is. The Serving size on the yogurt is 2 oz. The amount per serving is 4.75. So you’re selling...
January 2010
5 posts
Prohibition: A Cautionary Tale →
America’s experiment with banning alcohol created problems that persist to this day. Article by historian Thomas Fleming.
Introducing Kelpie
dhotson:
So call me crazy.. but I thought it would be a good idea to write a little web server in PHP.
I’d like to think that it’s fast, lightweight and hard working. :-)
Ok, show me the code
1 class HelloWorld 2 { 3 public function call($env) 4 { 5 return array( 6 200, 7 array("Content-Type" => "text/plain"), 8 array("hello world") 9 ); 10 ...
Finally, a voice with reason
California is free to make its own drug laws
There are plenty of reasons to support AB 390 apart from the estimated $1.3 billon it would add to the state’s coffers. It would allow law enforcement the time and resources to actually prioritize public safety. In the last 20 years, while arrests for all criminal offenses in California dropped by 40%, arrests for marijuana possession have more...
Assembly committee OKs bill to legalize marijuana →
I’m going to go a bit further than Patrick McGreevy in Sacramento and actually refute some of the bullshit in this article. For one thing, there is a large community of law enforcement officials who are very much in favor of legalizing marijuana. You can find them here.
Now let’s take these bullshit arguments one by one.
Assemblyman Danny Gilmore (R-Hanford), a former CHP...
14 terror suspects mistakenly kill themselves →
Why are we afraid of these idiots again? Are we scared they might mistakenly kill other people?
I’m beginning to think our approach to combating these fools should be like when your 8 year old brother picks up a chainsaw. We should just gently tell them to put the dangerous stuff away before they blow their own nards off.
December 2009
3 posts
Fail, LA
In this story, there are possible solutions to the congestion that seems to never end on the 405.
Officials also say this will probably be the last major widening of the 405 Freeway, because the cost of such projects begins to outweigh the benefits of adding lanes. That’s because the freeway loses some of its capacity as drivers enter the freeway and weave from lane to lane. ...
Puzzling
More than anything, what puzzles me about the thwarted Christmas terrorist attack is that anyone actually took responsibility for it. The news was very explicit about how the “bomb” wasn’t anything more than a fizzling firecracker, and the guy actually had turned his underwear into a bomb, his legs and torso getting badly burnt in the attempt.
Upon reading this sort of thing,...
We can't afford universal healthcare?
My husband and I had a couple of visitors not too long ago - two young, wide-eyed Israeli men. They were impressed so far with their visit to the United States. Wow! We’re in America! This was their attitude. They were overwhelmed by such a rich country with so much to offer. Yet, they were puzzled, as we talked about current events, that the attitude of this country is that we can’t...