Thugs gonna thug. From The Detroit Fox affiliate: A Good Samaritan snapped photos of what appeared to be two men impersonating police officers involved in a pistol-whipping and robbery outside a Citgo gas station on Detroit’s east side on July 21. Once Fox 2 aired those photos, an even more disturbing picture developed. “Several unidentified […]

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A new addition to the list of groups proclaiming that they shouldn’t have to participate in Obamacare: the IRS (AKA the federal agency responsible for managing the ass fucking the rest of us get from the law). The Internal Revenue Service is responsible for enforcing multiple provisions in Obamacare, including a slew of revenue-raising taxes […]

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Can one assume that considering that only 28% of Americans approve of race-based admissions policies (*cough* Affirmative Action *cough*) that the media will promptly begin to describe every Democrat who supports affirmative action as a political outsider and out of touch with mainstream America? That the democrats are being held under siege by those on […]

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First it was those working on Capitol Hill. Then it was the unions. Now it’s city employees in Chicago, Obama’s hometown that supports him in everything he does, that’s starting to bitch about Obamacare. Fuck them. They wanted it, they can take in the ass just like the rest of us.

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A new study in Climate from a very heavy hitter in the geophysics world concludes that global warming is a result of natural occurances rather than from CO2 buildup (PDF) caused by man. Abstract: The rise in global average temperature over the last century has halted since roughly the year 2000, despite the fact that […]

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The future of GMO crops could be brilliant. Vegetables that are able to grow without the use of pesticides could be a huge boon to the poor worldwide, dramatically increasing yields per acre and decreasing the cost of production, while using far fewer chemical pesticides and fungicides that pollute the land. Fewer chemicals make for […]

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Shocking news: People who couldn’t afford their mortgages before the housing meltdown, still can’t afford them even after tens of billions of dollars have been lofted their way. Borrowers who received help through the government’s main foreclosure prevention program are re-defaulting on their mortgages at alarming rates, a federal watchdog said in a report released […]

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Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, opines on the racializing of the Trayvon Martin shooting: But let’s pause with the examples and consider the script itself. The trope, of course, is that black suspects are mercilessly hounded, even if they are innocent; and white suspects stroll free, even if they are self-evidently […]

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In reference to what I meant earlier when I wrote The state had a job, and they didn’t meet their burden. That some people wish to to blame the one legal mechanism, the state having the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, that keeps even more people from being jailed (particular those in […]

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A modern day example of the Tragedy of the Commons.

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