Jeff Sessions Ignorantly Thinks Civil Forfeiture Is Just Fine
Following up on my prior post about the creative use of “booking fees” that police and municipalities and even banks use to...
Yearly Archive: 2016
Police And Banks Find New Ways To Steal From Us
The NY Times has a story today about the common practice that municipalities are using to “charge” people they arrest a...
Astrophotography Adventure – Crater Gassendi
Earlier this month, there were actually a couple of clear nights in a row, so I took some photos of the...
Natural weekends – Happy Holiday!
As you can see above, it is a clear, cold, and frosty morning here on the creek. But everyone wants a...
Natural Weekends – Christmas Eve With Venus And Mars
Christmas Eve on the creek. Venus is the bright object in the center right; Mars is the fainter object up and...
America Has Become A Banana Republic, Heading Toward Kleptocracy
I am certainly not the first one to say it, but America these days looking more and more like a banana...
NY Times Provides Infantile Analysis Of Trump's Electoral College Victory
Earlier this week, the NY Times had a piece that, in the print edition, was titled “How To Explain Split Between...
World War I As A Lesson For Recognizing The Dangers Today
The assassination of the Russian Ambassador in Turkey prompted Josh Marshall over at TPM to think of the assassination of Archduke...
More FBI Agents Going Rogue; Agency Is Out Of Control
The FBI has become, or perhaps always was, a total disaster. A major insider trading case brought by US Attorney Preet...