Skeptacles

Well, it's been a while. Part of me wants to write down what I'm feeling and sensing in this crazy world, during these crazy times...

Hello World. It's been a while. Just testing. Back in a bit.

Some time back, I wrote a post about a painting by Valerius (Frank DeBruin Valerius) that I inherited from my mother. Here's a link to t...

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: Notes from the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs What LEAP says! What Morales says! 

I've never liked yogurt. Actually, it wasn't that I didn't like it as much as that I never gave it a chance. Curdled milk?! Yuk!...

My sister sent me some old negatives and slides to scan. These slides and negatives date back as far as the 1940's, and some of them are...

Well, this is kind of roundabout. This morning I pearled an article I thought was relevant to bitcoin, and then G+'ed it from PearlTre...

It shouldn't come as any surprise that the White House would come out with loads of steaming dung in response to some of the most popula...

I received an email from Wil Cardon (at) politicalmediainc dot com. Dear Fellow Conservatives, it began. It went on say why I should support...

The story is about the first application of federal hate-crime law. It's an unpleasant story about a bunch of, um, people, some of whom...

I found this in my inbox today: Jen Rhee rheester88@gmail.com via mailingcomplex.com 7:47 PM (12 hours ago) ... Hi Steve, I came across your...

The other day, Rand Paul, Republican Senator from Kentucky, sent me an email. I know it was from Senator Paul because it said so, right ther...

Just checking out the "send to blogger" link in Google Reader. The particular article that I'm "sending to blogger" ...

The news update on Bitcoin that Google so graciously serves up to me every day brings with it some interesting stuff from time to time. Subv...

Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't president, but Dick Cheney says that if she were in the White House rather than Barack Obama, then things ...

The Fox News headline characterizes this study, the report of which is entitled, "Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm ...

... Bob Fletcher – who officially turns 100 on Tuesday – didn't see combat in World War II. But he was shot at for being a Japanese sym...

This is some of the music that Andrew Berwick, aka Anders Behring Breivik, particularly admires. He recommends some nationalist themed songs...

Somehow I wound up on their emailing list, so yesterday I received this invitation from the Arizona Republican Party. Highlighting a few of ...

Apparently the human population of Earth is set to zoom past 7 billion sometime later this year. Seems, too, that forecasts for a leveling o...

My first exposure to WikiLeaks was when they outed Barclays Bank's tax avoidance schemes . I thought the outing of Barclays was well i...

Nuke plants deploy bio-defenses Health and Safety staff at nuclear plants have urged workers to wash their hands frequently or use alcohol-b...

High on Drugs: Breaking the Just Say No Addiction | Science | Religion Dispatches I had just finished reading this depressing and annoying p...

Good for you Robert Adams! – Thu Jun 9, 5:05 pm ET ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. – Robert Adams craved an ice-cold drink after finishing his shift o...

Pfff... Surely he said more than that because, if that's all he said he marked himself as brain dead, stupid, uncaring, a bullshit artis...

Drug gangs muscle into new territory: Central America | McClatchy Yeah, but... There is one economy. Just one. That it is composed of legal ...

I'm generally in agreement with the NRA when it comes to gun rights, but I don't think they are serious about rights in general. May...

In case the Rodrigo Rosenberg case interested you and you have not already seen this. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/04/110404fa...

Bitcoin . Bit. Coin. Two little syllables. They seem completely natural together. I think Bitcoin stands a good chance of becoming a big dea...

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