Cops who support marijuana legalization

(Email from Tom Angell of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, responding to my Drugs, border violence, and alternative solutions post on CAIVN saying it’s time to legalize marijuana. While this is a form letter to potential supporters, he brings important news, like chiefs of police of major cities who say it’s time to legalize marijuana. [...]

Dion and the Belmonts. I Wonder Why

Amazing singers. American Bandstand. 1958

New air conditioning process uses 50-90% less energy

NREL has developed a new AC technology called DEVap, which uses liquid dessicants to remove humidity from air that evaporative cooling has already cooled down. Most ACs today use a process that actually adds humidity to the cooled air; DEVap is 50-90% more efficient and will work better in humid climates.

Big added [...]

It’s raining oil in Louisiana

Via Clusterstock.

Oil gushing at spill site. Containment cap removed

The containment cap was removed after an underwater robot hit a vent. The flow has increased wildly.

BP “hopes” to reinstall the cap later today. That doesn’t sound real optimistic.

McChrystal fired. Afghanistan war staggers on

And it’s one, two, three What are we fighting for Don’t ask me I don’t give a damn Next stop is Afghanistan

Why are we there? What are we trying to accomplish?

Police in Nogales AZ to carry guns at all times after threats

The police chief ordered this after death threats against two off-duty police who stopped a vehicle containing 400 lbs. of marijuana. He said the threats were “credible.”

On leaving PSL

(Reader EnCee on why he left PSL. Promoted from the comments to my Abstaining from bad sects post yesterday. The image is of my choosing.) This is just a little blurb on my own departure from the PSL after 6+ years. There is so much to get into, but I promised Bob I would [...]

Offensively named marijuana wins pot award

The medicinal, confounding, self-righteous, and needlessly macho world of ardent pot smoking had some sort of award ceremony this past weekend. The High Times San Francisco Medical Cannabis Cup held their first-ever competition on getting high, or whatnot, as Bay Area weed dispensaries competed for best product.

The horrifically named “God’s Pussy” from GreanBicycles [...]

Coercive games. Target fat cats and upset their personal world

Global Guerrillas says traditional non-violent protest is ineffective so instead, target the ultra-wealthy and disrupt their personal lives, perhaps even making it a Dark Net game with tactics like Anonymous used against Scientology. Use identity theft, physical and net harassment, etc.

Career advancement and continuity dominates all thinking. Methods of correction: Taint the career. [...]