Feb

27

Rest in Peace, Myron… God Bless.

February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Feb

27

Diebold Machines Mistakenly Releases Nov Election Results

February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
A good joke on a very serious subject.

Feb

20

Antitrust Laws and Regulation: A Boon to Monopolies

February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Above is a worthy discussion about the anti-consumer / pro big and connected business fraud that is anti-monopoly legislation with Ron Paul. While the video is some 25 years old, the content is perfectly valid today (if not also a testament to the consistency of Ron Paul since then).
A great myth perpetuated by [...]

Feb

11

“Euros Accepted” in New York City, by Supermodels

February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Late last year Gisele Bundchen made Bloomberg News (and the Financial newswire, generally) by rejecting dollars in favor of Euros and other currency for her modeling contracts. Then rapper JayZ became famous for featuring fingers flipping through the “bling” of stacks of Euros — instead of the customary dollars — [...]

Feb

11

Wecht Defense Sample

February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

“Under a brisk flurry of questions during cross-examination by defense attorney Mark Rush, Mr. Rabickow said he never complained about the backlog, never discussed it with Dr. Wecht or Mr. Hollis, and saw Dr. Wecht in the office only when the former coroner “popped his head in” looking for Mr. Hollis.”
As a follow up to [...]

Feb

10

Caliguiri Whoop de Doo…

February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I read with some humor David Caliguiri’s Opinion 250 response to Chad Herman’s comments in the Post Gazette from last week. (For those who don’t know, the PG is running its Opinion 250 to encourage ideas about Pittsburgh’s future at its 250th anniversary…)
Caliguiri’s intends to build on Herman’s comments — which meander around the [...]

Feb

7

Wecht So Far…

February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

[Update 2-10-2008: Looks like we got picked up by the Post Gazette on this one!]
I’ve been following the case so far, and as best I can tell — Wecht appears pretty damned guilty of what he’s accused.
The defense appears to have the following as its rebuttal:

So he bilked a few grand here and there? [...]

Feb

6

On War

February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Right on, Bra… (And by that, I mean brother, California Style… not, well, you get it….

Feb

3

Alarming Police State Behavior in Ohio

February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This is downright scary. It all starts at the voting booth. Stop the police state mentality. The war on drugs. The war on this or that.
Of course, if you want to have troops in 100 nations, and you want to dictate to the rest of the world how they should live, you [...]