I’ve been on vacation, but before I went, I dropped a few of my photos on Flickr. Here is my Flickr page. I suppose this experiment passes muster and I’ll continue to load my photos here. I have long toyed with the idea of building a separate website to house my many, many photos, but [...]

People who do not have to fly and thus have no quarrel with the TSA and its assininity really bug me. “Oh, just do what they ask and be done with it,” they say. This really happened to me because of some monkey who actually takes the government’s code colors seriously.
On the way back [...]

By now, most people know about the assinine cigar tax.
Washington, DC

This is from the Detroit News regarding the Detroit Riot of 1967:
What should we call what happened during those six chaotic days in July 1967 when 43 people died amid gunfire, looting, with whole sections of Detroit in flames?
Many call it a “riot,” a term that conjures images of mobs acting spontaneously. Blacks who lived [...]

I thought I’d seen poorly written articles before, but then I saw this one from L. Neil Smith. I have no idea why, but Mr. Smith rehashed an old Internet debate on immigration (involving Pat Buchanan, with both me and Steve Kubby responding to Pat in the negative), and went on a long and vicious [...]

I’m not really sure what Vache Folle is attempting here. Apparently, in his mind, I am “looking askance at Chinese products in view of recent safety concerns” and believe the anti-China hysteris “is just another Commie plot to impoverish us all.” Hmmm, looking askance?
Mr. Folle refers to this post. I can appreciate his opinion, however, [...]

This is a story about Linda Combs, who cleaned up the government’s financial reporting process.
A remarkable fact jumps off the page at me: “Nineteen of the 24 agencies received unqualified audit opinions in 2005, a vast improvement compared to 1990, when only one had a clean audit opinion.” Then the article goes on to [...]

“A New Jersey senator wants to make it illegal to sell or give to anyone under age 18 toy guns that look so realistic they can be mistaken for a real firearm.”
Where does the insanity end?

At the time this article ran on LewRockwell.com, and while the rest of the market sagged, J.P. Morgan upgraded the stock rating on General Motors and Ford. The reason? Betting on positive outcomes concerning worker benefits and “normalized” car sales. GM saw a 21.3% drop in its light vehicle sales for June, while Toyota, Honda, [...]