Author Archives: Oscar Gordon

Videos which the police record.  Personally, if a video did exist, then it belongs to both the police department and the citizen on the video.  It should be retained until both parties agree to deletion.  Of course, that could get … Continue reading →

Bruce links to an essay on it.  Read it, and keep it in mind the next time someone rails on about CCW laws causing “Blood in the streets” type scenarios.

I actually agree with something Obama said.  Granted, it isn’t profound, or anything, but I agree with him, which is new. “It may make your blood boil. Your mind may not be changed. But the practice of listening to opposing … Continue reading →

sooner or later

“The more you can increase the fear of drugs and crime and welfare mothers and immigrants and aliens and poverty and all sorts of things, the more you control people. Make them hate each other. Be frightened of each other … Continue reading →

Japan set to launch a Solar Sail Space Yacht.

Seriously. There ought to be a superhero — “Darwin Man!” — who appears, bludgeons the wart on humanity into paste — “For the good of all mankind, I apply the rod of Natural Selection!” –  and disappears until necessity calls. … Continue reading →

And it worked! SNERK!

Ahhh, nothing like a law that says “Let me see your papers.”  Just another example of “Conservatives are not Libertarians”. By the way, if you think illegal immigrants are just too lazy to come here legally, you might want to … Continue reading →

First Up, a new material that can: By engineering a metamaterial with such properties, we are opening the door to such unusual—but potentially useful—phenomena as superlensing (high-resolution imaging past the diffraction limit), invisibility cloaking, and the synthesis of materials index-matched … Continue reading →