Archive for the 'government' Category

I have a blog? Oh look I have a blog.

I’m pretty terrible about not posting anything on here. Pretty much this is a result of being bogged down with a mountain of homework or other academic work, which is an adequate excuse for me. I was considering implementing something to produce a daily digest of interesting links from google reader with a brief comment, [...]

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Yelling at the Grass For Being The Wrong Shade of Green

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 [...]

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But, but, but voting is your civic duty!

  Also, to cut down on the cynicism and inject some wholesome idealism, check this out: ALL-Left.net.

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In Which I End Up Sounding Like a Conspiracy Theorist

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 [...]

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I’ve been slack haven’t I? Oh bother.

Yes, yes, I know that nobody reads my drivel anyway, but I still feel sort of bad about not having posted anything since mid-December (is that right? I didn’t even look to see when my last real post was.). I’ve been awfully busy with schoolwork. With luck I’ll actually manage to keep some kind of [...]

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I Want My Post-Apocalypse America, And I Want it Medium-Rare

I was kinda gripped by this article on Helium a few days ago. It kinda struck me as panicky and sensationalistic, or in other words, crap. Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a ‘world-killing’ event Ominous reports are leaking past the BP Gulf salvage operation news blackout that the disaster unfolding in the [...]

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HCR Roadmap

A good breakdown of the HCR bill can be found here. I’m not going to link to any of the moonbat Tea Party crap. It just made my head spin and made me a bit sad. I’m no fan of this bill (as previously stated) but it’s not the end of the world. I’m not [...]

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College tuition in GA set to rise again

BWAHAHAHAHA… I go to a public university in GA. The comments on the Augusta Chronicle’s page are, as always, worth the read. One of the commentrs sounds suspiciously like one of my professors from last semester (and the fact that he hints at the fact that he has his doctorate). Chapters 6 & 7 of [...]

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Canaries in the coalmine

To borrow the analogy from John Robb over at Global Guerillas, who sees the recent Joe Stack incident as such a marker. In addition to that, I’d point out the guy who bulldozed his own house in retaliation of forclosure: As well as the ridiculousness of the Tea Party. These people don’t know what they [...]

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Possible SCOTUS openings

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.

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