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Greening Up the World's Sex Life
The leaders of the industrial world will be attending the G-8 conference in L’Aquila, this week. The hot topic will be global climate, the environment and how to encourage the development of Green Technology. The meeting will be hosted by Italia...
Recession is the Mother of Invention
Proctor & Gamble, Hewlett-Packard, Burger King, General Electric, Walt Disney Corporation, Microsoft along with electric razors, tampax, car radios, Chocolate Chip cookies, and Xerox machines have two things in common.They were all crea...
Gangster-in-Chief Muscles Chrysler Bankruptcy
On Friday the federal government officially became a bonafide criminal enterprise. And scarcely a discouraging word could be heard above the distant ghostly roar of a 338 powered Mopar Muscle Car.In the Chrysler bankruptcy proceedings the ...
Carbon Cap and Trade Inconvenient Truths
Facts have a funny way of getting in the way of good ideas—take Carbon Cap and Trade for example.This is the proposed system, in which the government will auction off right-to-pollute licenses, and then these will be traded on the open market. On...
The Invisible Hook and Libertarian Pirates
Aaarg Hearties, and congratulations for being so daring you chose to go beyond the Offensive Content Splash Page, erected by Google Blogger at the request of “some people” who were offended by what the libertarian wench had to say, an...
Tossing Tea With Michelle Malkin
I see the cutest, angriest Filipino neocon in America, Michelle Malkin, is getting pretty stoked up about Rick Santelli's spaz attack on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange calling for a Chicago Tea Party:There is actually a whole lot of ...
Obama in the Desert—Heaven on Their Minds
I feel a bit like Judas Iscariot.When Mary Magdalene poured expensive fragrant oil over the Messiah's feet, Judas was irked and complained that the money could have been better spent on the poor.....Jesus put him in his place:“For the poor you h...
Beating the Recession Blues
It's one thing to tell someone all they have to fear is fear itself—but generally that chipper ass has not seen half of their life savings dissipate in six months, nor are they ever found in the unemployment line.We are all in grieving mode, and a...
Putin Goes Libertarian as Democrats Ape Hoover
As we peer out through the swirling dust of the shitstorms , it is clear we have entered a strange world where left is right, and right is left, up is down and most people don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.The Democrats are the New Hoov...
Economists Say Stimulus Has No Bang
Why is it that conventional wisdom is so often wrong?Perhaps part of it is because we are intellectually lazy, and it is just easier to defer to the voices of the loudest—especially if they are saying something we want to be true. But, I just wish...
Rolling Out the Stimulus Package Pork
This ain't your grandfather's Depression. Lake Havasu, Arizona, known mostly for drinking, boating, Spring Break, and girls gone wild, is also the home of London Bridge. Although there are often London Bridges falling down in Lake Havasu, the out-...
Bankrupting the Banks & Libertarian Welfare
After the Chief Justice flubbed the only thing he had to do today—administer the oath of office to the president, which is one of the better known parts of the constitution—Barack Obama gave his inaugural speech.For one of the great orators of h...
Recession Not a Repudiation of Capitalism
I am just a little tired of all the pundits (and my rif raf friends) telling me how the tanking of the economy is a repudiation of free markets, libertarian economics and capitalism. I will even stipulate that the recession was caused by evil hedge ...
Booting the Shoe Tax & Economic Kick Start
It dawned another beautiful day here in the desert—where there is always one hundred percent chance of sun and a bountiful supply of lizard hatchlings.So with a song in my heart, I headed off to the mall to do my part in stimulating the economy. M...
Election Day Girl Fight
One of my very dear friends is a Queer Feminist Trotskyite college professor at a well known American University, who looks smokin' hot when she wears her skin tight arrest red Che T-shirt. We get along fabulously, even when we discuss politics. ...
