Sunday, April 10th, 2011
Tiny nibbles: The budget cuts in perspective
via facebook.com Via Sean Hastings.
Entries Tagged as 'politics'
Monday, March 21st, 2011
Fuck The FTC (and Shitty Optometrists)
Why the fuck is it illegal to buy eye glasses without a prescription… are teenagers abusing spectacles? Can you get high off that shit? Nope, otherwise people would be selling bifocals on the goddamn street corner. It’s a scam to keep shitty optometrists in business. Remember, every law requires the use of force by the [...]
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright
It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama’s political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright. Now the black nationalist preacher’s rhetoric was threatening [...]
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Oakland fires 80 police officers, lists crimes cops will no longer respond to | Raw Story
The department’s chief had said in recent days that unless the city could meet the union’s demands, officers would no longer respond in person to reports of a variety of crimes, including vehicle accidents, grand theft, identity theft, burglary, embezzlement, vandalism, registering sex offenders, stray animals and others. via rawstory.com Note that Oakland has 776 [...]
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Oakland police layoff talks go down to the wire
With the average officer’s salary and benefits totaling $188,000 a year, City Councilman Ignacio De La Fuente, a union leader himself, has described the situation as “unsustainable. via sfgate.com Posted via email from crasch’s posterous
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Positive Punishment
Across a whole range of problems there’s a class of responses I’ll dub the “low road” and another class I’ll call the “high road.” Examples of the former include war, torture, sanctions and blockades, imprisonment, aversive conditioning of all types (spanking; “dominance”-based animal training). Examples of the latter include diplomacy, rapport-building, civil disobedience, the free [...]
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
The 24 types of Libertarian
via facebook.com Posted via email from crasch’s posterous
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Avertible catastrophe: EPA regulations block Dutch oil skimming ships
The Dutch know how to handle maritime emergencies. In the event of an oil spill, The Netherlands government, which owns its own ships and high-tech skimmers, gives an oil company 12 hours to demonstrate it has the spill in hand. If the company shows signs of unpreparedness, the government dispatches its own ships at the [...]
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Plumber’s Union blocks waterless urinal
Plumbing codes never contemplated a urinal without water. As a result, Falcon’s fixtures couldn’t be installed legally in most parts of the country. Krug assumed it would be a routine matter to amend the model codes on which most state and city codes are based, but Massey and other plumbers began to argue vehemently against [...]
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
New
The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Joe Lieberman, legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide web in response to a Homeland Security directive. Lieberman has been pushing [...]
