Month April 2010

Junk food addiction

Recent tests show that rats given high fatty diets not only consumed twice as much calories as other rats, they also develop a higher tolerance to it, making it harder for them to get pleasure from it. In other words,…

The Pope is a criminal. Seriously

The AP’s story on Joseph Ratzinger’s direct involvement in delaying for six years the defrocking of a priest who had confessed to tying up and raping minors ends any doubt that the future Pope is as implicated in the sex…

WordPress attack. Batten down the hatches

Hundreds of WordPress blogs have been hacked, primarily but apparently not exclusively those hosted at Network Solutions and / or possibly those using the Simplepress Forum plugin. The attack appears to be coming from a system level (some have done…

Open Carry advocates test law in Nevada

Open carry of a handgun without a permit is legal in Nevada. Advocates now sometimes carry deliberately to test reaction by Los Vegas police and to demonstrate their constitutional rights. Police sometimes stop and search them, then return the gun…

Feds bullied Kerik into 4-yr term, hurting us all

Former New York City Police Commissioner and now convicted felon Bernard Kerik probably pled guilty after prosecutors suppressed testimony by a witness who said he was pressured to implicate Kerik falsely. Moreover, this was a secret agreement, which included trying…