Tag: jail mode
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Confusion to the enemy
Via NewScientist, a solid but unsurprising bit of research. Why do some mushrooms produce psilocybin, which causes hallucinations in humans? Turns out to be the same reason as many other non-obvious plant chemicals. It kills and confuses insects. The researchers took the direct approach, microdosing fruit fly larvae with psilocybin. Most of them died, and…
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Anniversary
Jan 20 is an anniversary for me. This year isn’t a round number, but for some reason the day wants to be marked this time. Jan 20, 1970 was the day I started housekeeping on my own. I got out of prison on Dec 19, then STUPIDLY followed expectations and returned to college at OSU.…
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No alarm, no opportunity
Google Books is shutting down, or at least no longer available to the public. They’re telling users to “create a library” so we can continue using the books in our “library”. This is absurd. I always downloaded the books I found useful. Now I have them in my computer. Why would I want to keep…
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Ned Green and enjoyable science
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2021 REPRINT: Following part 1 and part 2 and part 3. Saved the best for last. Colonel Ned Green was the most influential of these three men. Money talks, and intelligently-directed ENJOYABLE money talks best. His mother Hetty Green was the equivalent of…
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Mass does the right thing!
Via Bloomberg: The Carney Solution (which I’ve been recommending for a long time) is catching on! Massachusetts has decided to stop screeching about “democracy” and start SUPPORTING ITS OWN PEOPLE. It will raise taxes, including a millionaire tax, and use the money to compensate for federal research cuts. It will also CROWDFUND the research, which…
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Not sure, sure
An interesting thought from Rushfield of the Ankler. = = = = = START RUSHFIELD: Among the many downsides of a presiding meritocratic elite is the takeover of the arts by a very narrow strata of individuals with a common pool of interests and obsessions. In literature, what that has meant is that portrayals of…
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Loyal campaigners, continued….
Continuing from a few days ago…. All ‘mainline’ institutions are making a basic mistake in advertising and messaging. They claim to be appealing to Da Yoots, the supposedly valuable 18-34 demographic. In fact they are only appealing to one particular type of 70-year-old. After 20 years of bankruptcies, why do they still hold this weird…
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Carney keeps doing the right thing
Carney has proposed a major reform to criminal law. First, the law would make it harder for crime-loving “prosecutors” to release criminals on recognizance. The new law would switch the default preference from release to hold. A prosecutor would have to show specific proof that the criminal wouldn’t be a danger. If the US had…
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Halfway Fairness Doctrine kudos
The local newspaper has done a halfway decent job of exposing the crime-loving city’s fraudulent fakery. Unfortunately the headline doesn’t match the article. The headline would lead you to think the city is doing something about the homeless mess: City reports street outreach has closed nearly 100 homeless encampments in 10 days When you read…
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Speaking truth to Zappone
Spokane COUNTY has issued an official tonguelashing to the CITY idiots (mayor and council) who insist loudly that they can’t possibly control crime and homelessness because “the jail is full”. Idiot Zappone has been among the loudest supporters of crime. The county’s press release is worth a long quote. = = = = = START…
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Carney is the master.
Carney understands, better than anyone else in the world, how to deal with psychopaths. He’s not alone; even the Canadian journalists at CBC appear to grasp the problem and the solution. Our politicians and journalists continue to score a solid ZERO on this test. They can’t pull their brainless heads out of their own asses,…
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Do they recognize their advantage?
Responding to the Repooflican crusade against the Post Office, I’ve been trying to point out that the PO is NOT funded by taxpayers. It’s a business like other freight carriers, depending on income from stamps and shipments. If Repooflicans were serious about opposing government overreach, they would be CHEERING for the PO instead of trying…
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Too much adaptation
Press release at Spokane News: (Condensed) On Tuesday, September 16th, 2025, after a months-long investigation, DEA, ATF, local police seized 50,208 pills from a defendant at a Centralia gas station. … Lab tests revealed the pills did not contain fentanyl, instead they were carfentanil and acetaminophen. Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid originally developed to tranquilize…
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Back to unsurprising again
In July I noted a slight bit of apparent action by the insane “city”. Some REAL people, ie people named Cowles, finally got tired enough to make the “city” take a tiny bit of apparent action. I wrote: = = = = = START REPRINT: I’ve been thoroughly bashing the “city” of Spokane for ENCOURAGING…
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Another answer
Previous item repeated Carver’s answer to Machiavelli. Now repeat Henry Ford’s answer. = = = = = START FORD ANSWER: This 1935 Ford promotional film starts with a long florid speech by a pompous grandiose announcer, introducing an important address by Henry Ford himself! Mr Ford will announce the company’s way of countering the Depression.…
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