Wikileaks CIA data dump and broken security

Horrendous but not unexpected. CIA exploited security flaws in software rather than notifying vendors of the flaws so they could be fixed. Snowden is completely correct. This is reckless beyond words. The Wikileaks CIA dump shows that CIA (and no…

Trump Tower Baku. A curious story

I’ve got. it Let’s build a thirty-three story ultra-luxury hotel in a crap part of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, far from other luxury developments, where no one will come to. Further, let’s do the deal with some really dicey…

The left should attack Trump like neocons are

Some factions on the left seem uncertain about attacking Trump on his obvious-to-me Russia ties. It’s like they must have incontrovertible proof before doing anything and besides those nice people at RT provide a platform for some of our lefties too,…

California high-speed bullet train may have gotten shot

Funding for the zombie California bullet train is now questionable at best, this after California spent $2.3 billion of mostly federal money on a 119 mile train track to nowhere in the Central Valley. Money from greenhouse gas cap-and-trade auctions…

Slender Man stabbing, schizophrenia, and Miranda rights

If you are schizophrenic and twelve, arrested for viciously stabbing a classmate, and sign your name to something that waives your Miranda rights, should that be allowable in court? Morgan Geyser’s mother says no, and wants her daughter’s confession waived.…

Lake Mead and Lake Powell get water, more needed

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The major amounts of rain and snow this winter will boost water levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell, and this is good news indeed. However more is definitely…