Monthly Archives: March 2010

Crime Follows Mathematically Predictable Patterns

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Oscar Gordon

And police tactics need to respond to each pattern in a different way.

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Geography 101 Lab Series: #2

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Phil Kadath

Today’s Lab was the dreaded Global Warming Death Cult Indoctrination Essay. To paraphrase the text book, the reader was told that there was no doubt we were all going to die, either via drowning or spontaneous combustion unless one of … Continue reading →

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Wow!

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Oscar Gordon

ACORN closing up shop.

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2010 Will Be The Best Boomershoot Yet

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Alaska

…for me, at least, regardless of how well I shoot, because it’s 99.9% certain now that my wife will be attending. I’d thought this might be the year my Zoroastrian friend would show up, too, but alas, it’s not to … Continue reading →

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How to make Berlin look like Paris

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Phil Kadath

Set about having western scholars “critically evaluate” the Koran This is a serious business. A team of researchers at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences is preparing to bring out the first installment of Corpus Coranicum – which purports to be … Continue reading →

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Geography 101 Lab Series: #1

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Phil Kadath

Throughout Winter Quarter 2010 I was required to write eleven short Labs/Essays for class. We were to read a section of the textbook and answer one or more of the assigned questions at the end of each section after doing … Continue reading →

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From Citizen to Subject

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Phil Kadath

In one fell vote. We gots us some healthcare! No, not really. We gots us some health care insurance reform! Again, not really. We gots us a law that forces people to buy health insurance at the point of a … Continue reading →

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QOTD

Posted on March 20, 2010 by Oscar Gordon

“We haven’t actually gone down this road before,” said Sally Clark, who chairs the Seattle City Council’s land-use committee. “Most [regulatory] systems are not built for innovation.” From here

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Something that should give you pause

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Oscar Gordon

A few months back, author James Peter Watts was arrested for “assaulting a federal officer” (a felony) at the border crossing between the US & Canada.  He was just found guilty of that felony “failure to comply with a lawful … Continue reading →

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Immortal Animal!?

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Oscar Gordon

An immortal jellyfish with no natural predators (that the article mentions) that is growing in population such that it is becoming a concern? Sounds like something out of a Dr Who episode (of course, then the Jellyfish would be an … Continue reading →

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