I have said it before: just let the government shut down. It beats the alternative. Seriously. When all three branches of the U.S. government are engaged in a project to get rid of all the good things the government actually…
Posse Con Militatus: No Military Judges; Just, None At All
Mother Jones is reporting that the regime has started making plans to assign military lawyers as immigration court judges. And that’s more than just one step over the line. There are two important red lines that this crosses: These are…
You Should Read This: What Labor Means Today
Since I didn’t do a Labor Day post yesterday, because reasons, you should read Jonathan Larson‘s over at The Fucking News. What Labor Means Today. While I don’t agree with every little thing he says in it, it’s very good…
The Trump Strip: Abomination As Capstone To Atrocity
I had something else in mind to write this morning, revisiting the suggestion that corporate equity should only be available through labor. ‘Cause it’s Labor Day here in the U.S. And then I saw the artist rendering in the pitch…
Archive: An Open Letter to Be’s Jean-Louis
BeOS was great; I should go look and see how Haiku is doing. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Fri Apr 20th, 2001 at 05:15:55 PM EST”. This is a letter which I’m emailing to the founder and CEO…
Breaking News: Grand Jury Actually Does Its Job
Legal types like to deride the U.S. grand jury system by saying that a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. Ha? The joke being that U.S. citizens are such sheeple that they’ll just do whatever…
Literally The Least They Can Do: Some Hard Words About “Soft Secession”
I don’t think I’ve heard of Chris Armitage before, but he made quite a splash last week with his Substack post “It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession“. It’s … OK? I mean, it’s well written and…
Archive: Book Review: The Big U
I should re-read both the books discussed here; I still read most of Matt Ruff’s books, but I stopped reading Neal Stephenson’s after “Cryptonomicon”. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Sun Apr 8th, 2001 at 05:12:22 PM EST”.…
Наступного року в Києві: Independence Day In Ukraine
I don’t usually write for this site on the weekends; I was working on the irrigation in the garden (because I do in fact take my own advice). So this isn’t being posted on Ukraine’s actual Independence Day, which was…
WebSmurfer Revived: Smurfica Is Back, Baby
Yesterday, I revived an old site I originally built back in 1997. Yeah, that’s old. It’s been online continuously since it was built, which at this point is something like 28 years? I guess it depends on when in 1997…