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If I were betting, I’d think we will see the same happening on election day this year. While it would inconvenience all sides, we already know that logic isn’t part of the game.

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Такое впечатление, что людям совсем не хочется опять жить при совке, даже и на ( Read more... )

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Terrorism gets a lot of attention. It doesn’t produce many casualties relative to the population size, and would produce even fewer if governments didn’t insist on disarming their own residents. The various government shenanigans with health care, restraints of trade and taxes ( Read more... )

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My friend Boris Karpa is fond of Tim Moen’s campaign slogan: “I want gay people to be able to protect their marijuana plants with guns.” I don’t think he is thinking far enough into the bright future.

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Looking at the videos and photos of the street fighting in Ukraine, it would seem that the riot police formations would be quite vulnerable to arrows, bolts and slugs even if fired from extreme range. And yet I see nothing but gasoline in bottles and rocks but not the more ( Read more... )

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Domesticated animals have been around for tends of millions of years. Many ant species look after aphids in exchange for sugary secretions from their six-legged flocks. Human domestication of selected species certainly assured their survival to a far greater degree than ( Read more... )

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The killing at LAX was done rather inefficiently, but the sole surprise is that this hasn’t happened much sooner. Given that our side - non-government people - tends to avoid violence, this was probably squabbling among thieves escalating to a predictable end.

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This year, same as last, the scariest deeds aren’t being shown on C-SPAN. They are being done on the quiet - so take C-SPAN level of scary and multiply it by some unknown but considerable coefficient to get the idea of how much evil is afoot this Fall.