Americans Should Be Able to Sell Stuff Without a Permit The normal mindset among U.S. officials is that prior permission should be required to sell legal goods to a willing buyer. Kids selling lemonade on the street are shut down. A Missouri man has been fined $90,000 for selling rabbits (he made about $200). In [...]

I’m not big on conspiracy theories. Some are more entertaining than others, sure. And some are right in pointing out that something isn’t right in re whatever it is they’re theorizing conspiracies about. And I have one of my own. I’m really concerned that I haven’t heard much really about this: Artificial Leaf Could Be [...]

Oh boy. There is a chance that anything that resembles property rights could outright disappear. Of course, the Daily Beast is putting Hillary Clinton’s name out there for this already. Because, you know, she has had such a long and glorious legal career.

FOX News is taking a poll on it. I think we all know what to vote for, people. Of course, this hilarious clip regarding these whack-jobs has been making the rounds: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Sarah Palin Uses a Hand-O-Prompter www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Economy Related articles [...]

My cable went out for most of last week, leaving me without the distraction of the internet. I actually managed to get some reading done. I also got out of the house more. I met some very interesting people and interacted with a few I hadn’t seen in a while. The way people see me [...]

Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization? For most of us, the idea that civilization itself could disintegrateprobably seems preposterous. Who would not find it hard to think seriously aboutsuch a complete departure from what we expect of ordinary life? What evidencecould make us heed a warning so dire—and how would we go about responding to [...]

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Cops help dream up high-tech police car “I don’t see any downside to this car,” said Carl Latorre, a Pennsylvania State Police dispatcher who served 35 years as a Philadelphia police officer. “I am so excited about this car. This car rates up there with cops carrying automatic weapons to combat what the criminals carry [...]

Socrates is largely revered as an historical figure –in the eyes of the social sciences, especially those pertaining to critical thinking, both his life and the lessons he taught during it are greatly admired and studied. This is a man who has been dead for roughly 2400 years and never published any of his analysis [...]

(cribbed from Ectoplasmosis!) What can you really say to that? I mean it’s a goddamn shrimp. Yes, I’m blogging from work now.