Whenever I get tired of checking the bestseller lists on my Kindle book reader for new novels to read -- the top of the list has been owned by Hunger Games and Lisbeth Salander ever since I got the thing -- I like to try out a few of the cheap e-books. It's a bit like checking out experimental theater productions: Most of them turn out to not be very good, but sometimes they're … [Read more...] about Shifted by Colin D. Jones – Review
A Blogger Without a Clue
A couple weeks ago, Jack Marshall wrote a post criticizing the ethics of George Zimmerman's legal team. Later that same day, California criminal defense lawyer Mary Frances Prevost at California Criminal Lawyer Blog wrote a post about the same subject. Her post used many of the same words. And rather a lot of the same phrases and sentences. Marshall decided to call her out for … [Read more...] about A Blogger Without a Clue
Chasing Jennifer
One of my regular blog reads is Ravings of a Feral Genius where Jennifer Abel rants about libertarian topics. Jennifer's a writer by trade, not just by virtue of having a blog, which means she gets paid and published in real publications, the most prominent of which is probably her column in the Guardian. This last Wednesday, however, Jennifer made this stunning announcement: … [Read more...] about Chasing Jennifer
Weyland-Yutani Startup?
Could we be seeing the start of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation?A new space startup company, Planetary Resources, claims they "will overlay two critical sectors -- space exploration and natural resources". That sounds like space mining! And it's not just a bunch of nuts I've never heard of backing this idea. The investors include Ross Perot Jr., Google co-founder … [Read more...] about Weyland-Yutani Startup?
More TSA Metastasis
One of the things Kip Hawley left out of his explanation of why the TSA sucks is the TSA's infestation of other forms of transportation, such as the one described in this press release from the Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority: In an unprecedented approach that involved four law enforcement agencies - including federal agents - METRO launched a national BusSafe pilot … [Read more...] about More TSA Metastasis