Categories: Current Affairs, Legal Nonsense, Mainstream Media Narcolepsy, War on Christmas, Why my God is better than your God (or your non-God)
Friday Round-Up - 17th January 2014
by Graham 
1. It's Mary's Birthday!!Happy Birthday to my lovely wife Mary Wilson Shevlin. 2. Things you might not want to try if you are a defendant - #1It might be a bad idea to threaten to kill members of the jury and their families.3. Overcriminaliza… more »
01/17/14 04:48:53 pm, The other side of the NSA overreach mess - US business competitiveness
by Graham
The revelations over the last year that the NSA is basically out of control and has been collecting both meta-data and data on US and non-US citizens, using a wide variety of quasi-legal and illegal mechanisms has, quite rightly, led to a storm of anger… more »
MId-Week roundup - 16th January 2014
by Graham
1. Jerry PournelleSci-Fi writer and former Byte contributor Jerry Pournelle continues with his wide-ranging blog Chaos Manor. Thought-provoking as ever. Sci-Fi writers and futurists have a much more detailed and out of the box way of looking at the wo… more »
Monday Roundup - 13th January 2014
by Graham
2. Award acceptance speechesI think that any acceptance speech that mentions the recipient's schoolteacher should result in an instant Smite by that person's deity. 3. Christmas is over and the War is off until...well...the Christian nitwits re-sta… more »
Today's Whisky Tango Foxtrot location...
by Graham
...courtesy of The Fogbow, ladeez n' gentlemen, please pray silence for....Rise Up For America, who have restored the Real Government... more »
This week's gem - a guide to many "WTF?" practitioners
by Graham
While attempting to decide which "WTF?" website was worthy of exposure on this blog for Thanksgiving Week, I came across a website that attempts to catalog "WTF?" practitioners. Step forward, American Loons. It looks like a valuable catalog of wackaloons… more »
This week's WTF? discoveriy on the internet - 16th October 2013
by Graham
From the Patriotic Zone....American Preppers more »
Copyright and Defamation/Libel threateners and the right way to respond
by Graham
A recent phenomenon in the USA has been the proliferation of law firms and other more shadowy organizations who specialize in forms of legal bullying based on the interpretation of copyright law. The stories fall into a general pattern. An internet use… more »
The NSA surveillance controversy - Light Heat and Sound
by Graham
The media has been convulsed for days about the revelations that the NSA has been collecting metadata on phone calls between the USA and the rest of the world for years. I have a few blunt comments about the brou-ha-ha. 1. The PATRIOT Act, nodded thr… more »
This week's WTF? discoveries on the internet - Two For the Price Of One
by Graham
For a change, instead of finding a web site (no shortage of those, but research has been lacking on my end due to lack of time), I will instead point readers to what may be the winner in the contest of Dumb Birther Legal Filings (2008 onwards). The fil… more »