I originally posted this mini-rant in 2022. Since then, things have not improved. Thanksgiving is Ukraine to Christmas’ Russia: I wouldn’t normally be particularly interested in it, though it seems fine (if a bit problematic), but its annoying neighbor just…
Do A New Thing: On Interpreting The Law
Paul Campos, at the Lawyers, Guns & Money blog, has an interesting post today about ways to approach interpreting the law called “Follow the rules or do the right thing?“. You should read it. Now, I Am Not A Lawyer…
Archive: ICANN Jump on the Terrorist Bandwagon
I am inordinately proud of the poem in this one. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Fri Nov 16th, 2001 at 09:47:52 AM EST”. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) have jumped on the “we…
Political Spelunking: Learning To Cave Like A Democrat
The Democrats really are the most useless opposition party. They didn’t do much when they were last in power either. Two things that happened over the weekend illustrate this: Trump, damn his name would not even have been a candidate…
ICE, ICE, Criminal: The FBI Misses The Actual Problem
So, the FBI wants ICE (and presumably other federal masked marauders as well) to identify themselves properly so we can tell them apart from the criminals. Yeah; that’s not gonna work. I mean, sure, part of the problem is that…
Archive: /dev/null/nethack Tournament 2001
These early tournaments had a simple structure; by the time I stopped hosting it, the scoreboard was absurdly complicated. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Wed Oct 31st, 2001 at 06:31:11 PM EST”. Tonight (Halloween) at midnight Pacific…
The Overton Window: It’s Not A “Both Sides” Problem
Yesterday, I proposed the concept of the “Asshole window” as a way of thinking about how society can collapse just from having too many assholes around. I was in a mood. But that idea is inspired by an actual concept…
The Asshole Window: A New Theory Of Societal Collapse
I tell my kids that the most amazing thing about the world we live in is that this ramshackle system works at all. Much less that it works well enough to support 8 billion people. It really shouldn’t. It probably…
Bad Dates: First-Draft Of A Timeline For The Coup
If you disagree with the conclusion that the United States government has already fallen to a coup, then you might want to skip today’s post. It probably wouldn’t be good for your blood pressure. Now that they’re gone let’s just…
[Insert Metaphor]: This Regime Is An Anthill Of Crazy
Trying to keep track of all the details of exactly how the current regime is violating the Constitution and various laws is frankly exhausting. And that is exactly the goal. It’s not like they’ve been coy about it. The Trump,…