Polizeros podcast. Afghanistan pseudo-withdrawal. Huntsman

On last night’s podcast, I announced that CAIVN will be running a series on in-depth articles on the California prison mess. The series kicks off on Monday with an introductory article (I’ll repost it here) discussing the multitude of issues.  These includes the Supreme Court ruling that California prisons are cruel and unusual punishment because [...]

No Libyans allowed at ANSWER Libya Forum

Clay Claiborne, who I know from the anti-war days in L.A., details the pinheaded ANSWER Coalition and their physically blocking Libyans from entering their Libya forum. Yes, you read that right.

Because, you see, for PSL (the Marxist party that controls ANSWER), it always about them and nothing else. Further, if the US ever [...]

And now, a pause for silliness

Californians favor modifying Three Strikes, moving state inmates to local jails

Voters agree with Gov. Brown’s plan to transfer low-risk state inmates to local jails in order to comply with the recent Supreme Court ruling on overcrowding in state prisons. However, they don’t want to pay any extra taxes to do it. They also overwhelmingly say that the current Three Strikes law should be amended to [...]

Podcast tonight. Afghanistan withdrawal. Conventions on Left and Right

Obama’s Afghan tepid Afghanistan withdrawal announcement was righfully criticized by many. Netroots Nation and Right Online recently had conventions and both left and right are internally split on some issues.

With Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, Josh Mull (@joshmull) and myself. Join us!

To listen to the show live, go to Polizeros Radio on BlogTalkRadio. [...]

Thomas Friedman unloads against both parties

There is something crazy about what is going on in our country today. Our fiscal condition continues on an unsustainable path, the European currency is heading for a crackup, the Arab world is in the midst of a crackup, unemployment is creeping upward and basically our two parties are telling us that they will not [...]

Disturbing trend in big solar, mindless cheerleading

Renewable Energy World jumps the shark, saying the more big solar the better because the US likes doing things on a big scale and it will mean big profits for big developers. Wowie zowie, I mean what could go wrong with that? As for any possible problems with, say, carpeting the Mojave desert with [...]

Groovefest American Music Festival starts today

Cedar City UT calls itself “Festival City” and Groovefest is just one of the festivals. Four days of workshops and music, including eighteen bands performing for free in the park. Genres include alt country, Americana, southern R&B, blues, Cajun swamp, traditional mountain, bluegrass, and more.

I mean, how can I not go see a [...]

The Shift: From print, to digital and beyond

Baekdal starts his next book.

The concept of the book is to invite you on the journey to the new world of publishing – or specifically the future world of publishing. A world in which publishers can’t use the internet to give away their products for free. A world in which value outranks everything [...]

Romney and Huntsman

Romney is still the one to beat, for sure. Many say Huntsman can’t win because he’s too moderate. Maybe, but don’t count him out. He moves between all the levels of the different political strata effortlessly, is low-key, likeable, and seems to be aided by as yet unseen forces. What people are saying about [...]