The first communist government in the EU
Cyprus
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Day March 3, 2008
US wants to tag all farm animals with RFID or microchips
Uh huh, the government is here to help farmers track their animals, strictly for disease prevention purposes only. Right. And the program is voluntary, except that it isn’t. Only a paranoid would think the government might use this as a…
Hartford CT property tax death spiral
Hartford CT has been struggling for decades. One big problem is that people and businesses leave, moving to nearby, vastly more prosperous suburbs. Since Connecticut has no county governments or regional authorities to spread money around, Hartford gets no help…
Steve Earle. Copperhead Road
This is perhaps Steve Earle’s signature song. It’s about a Vietnam vet, his grandaddy and daddy were bootleggers, but he had new ideas. I volunteered for the army on my birthday They draft the white trash first round here anyway…
The three waves of Al-Qaeda – managers, murderers and muppets
We’re at the muppet stage now, the more clueless than not terrorist wannabes rather than the cold, hard zealots who came before them. Sageman’s policy advice is to “take the glory and thrill out of terrorism.” Jettison the rhetoric about…