Oh joy: Now, even though I can't get to half of my own articles, guess what? I CAN get to other people's articles, which are now showing up as mine, and apparently edit them, as the edit feature is not ghosted or anything. 7/5/06 The up side is that whatever goofs you may have made, admitting to strange sexual habits, threatening the executive branch, mentioning your mistress's name, NOW you have someone else to BLAME! Hey, I can take it. I get blamed for everything anyway. ...

The gist of Professor Greg Benford's talk at the Patrick Henry Democratic Club in the OC this May of '06 was virtually orthogonal to what he said at the Orange County Science Fiction Club's meeting about a year ago. At that meeting, he gave us the full-scope analysis/overview of the problem, with the Power Point slides, etc., and it didn't sound hopeful at all, with NONE of the proposed solutions really making a dent in the final apocalyptic outcome for the planet, taken separately or all to...

Yeah, sure, I know that Demos are supposed to be a buncha wimpy Republican wannabees. However, with this group - you might be really SURPRISED! Members of the Patrick Henry group include a lot of the major Green Party people and other local activists, mostly KPFK fans. This time, they are going to have a real star performer on tap. Greg Benford is both a noted physicist and a top-ranked sf writer. He is also a professor of physics at UCI. AND, he was on the two big federally sponsored pane...

Recently posted to the KPFKchat.org newsgroup: We are about to be bombarded with pros and cons in this debate over the big union money grab. I mean, of course, the (California) state-funded pre-school initiative. See my previous posts on this issue at KPFKchat.org for details. Bottom line is that it represents the culmination of decades of sinister plotting by the truly evil Public Teachers Union to add 15% to their membership by destroying private day care via utterly useless regulations ...

Update: April 23rd...Wow! Has it been that long? No, I didn't break my foot, altho it hurt like it for a while.As to the ongoing ALH&Co. case, I filed my motion in response to the Receiver's motion to make me and a lot of other people "partners" in ALH&Co. after the fact. I realize that the Receiver was simply trying to satisfy the IRS, and the IRS filed their own motion, in fact, in essence assuring the Receiver and the Judge that if we were all declared "partners," then the IRS would hard...

Just started Korten's book, "When Corporations Rule the World," 2nd Edition, having bought it at the local meeting of the Patrick Henry club - young Democrats, which featured Mark Tabbert (mark@endcorporaterule.org) doing a PowerPoint presentation on the subject of the corporation - the artificial person. So far the book appears to be totally on target, although I haven't gotten anywhere close to his "solutions," which is where "progressives" tend to revert to what caused the problems to begi...

Something I've been thinking about off and on since the early '80's when I predicted the emergence of huge multi-user virtual environments... I've been trying to get the local Ballys to buy some of the new VR bicycles. I used them in the early '90's at a spa that had four of them as an experiment, and even with the crude graphics of then, they were still a BLAST! In that version, you got to drive around in a bucolic setting of small villages, winding country roads and hills. There wer...

This is going to be an interesting blog - for me, anyway. Usually, I start out knowing pretty much what I intend to say and then it keeps morphing into the blog that ate Cleveland. Becuz I know SO MUCH STUFF! (Aren't you glad?) This time, however, I'm writing to find an answer, as in the classic psychotherapist trick, "Well, if you were able to answer the question, what would the answer be?" So, I'll assume that I have the answer - or a way to get there - or something - regarding "...

Anarchists in general have not always been consistent on this issue of "crime" and "punishment." I, however, am. The snapshot of "anarchist justice" that I am about to provide was innovated and refined originally in the late '60's by various individuals involved in the "agorist," anarcho-capitalist, or libertarian movements, most especially Linda and Morris Tannehill, in their classic "The Market for Liberty," and Jarret Wollstein in his series in the "Rational Individualist" entitled "Publ...

Actually, it was not all THAT bad. I got to watch some cool Japanese anime, eat a lot of munchies, get into a few minor discussions that almost managed to go somewhere, and one of the Panel discussions did actually turn me on to some information that may easily be worth the whole weekend's investment. So? Why am I bitching? I expected MORE! I've been going to LOSCON from the early '80s', missing very few of them. Usually - for the past 15 years, anyway - I came away really wishing tha...

A recent story in the Orange County Register indicated that for around $5,000, you can convert a gas car to total electric. The article mentioned a local woman who plugs her total electric in every night and drives a fair distance commute every day and the electric bill is only $2 per day. Of course, even with gas prices what they are and are likely to be next year and the next year and the next year, $5,000 buys a lot of gas, and batteries will only take you so far on a charge, and they do...

For a more complete discussion of the Anthony Hargis story, see my previous article I recently received a letter from the Justice Dept. informing me that no one had shown up to represent Anthony Hargis & Company at the most recent hearing and so the Judge had decided to decide the issues himself. Then, this past week, the Court Receiver informed me that the Judge had decided to award everything to the IRS, even though they have not presented any proof for their claims, while the hundre...

See a previous discussion: Now it seems that a lot of people who otherwise qualified for assistance from FEMA in the Katrina disaster cannot get it, or have already lost their chance, simply because they weren't using Windose and IE6. I heard a long interview on NPR with a woman whose home, business, vehicles were all destroyed, so she found out about a limited time offer of a $2,000 debit card to families such as hers. Problem is, her only computer was her husband's Mac portable, with...

Citation below from: “The National Institute of Justice estimates that rape and other sexual assaults of adults cause an annual minimum loss of 127 billion dollars, or about $508 per U.S. resident. This includes tangible losses such as initial police response, medical care, mental health services, property damage or loss, and loss of productivity; and intangible losses, such as loss of quality of life, pain, and suffering. These costs do not include the costs of investigation, prosecuti...

I heard on recently on NPR an interesting discussion about a major split allegedly taking place among Greens and other environmentalists on the issue of nuclear power. It seems that a lot of the former rabidly anti-nuke types are now starting to realize that nukes may offer a way out of global warming, which could kill us all as well, along with the majority of other mamalian and avian species on the planet. This is hardly news to those who have paid attention to the science. The intervi...