All These Years I Was Driving Right Past...
Apparently, the home in which L. Ron Hubbard invented Scientology is right here in Phoenix. In fact, it is right by my kids' school and I drive past it almost every day. In the next few days I will...
View ArticleThe Media's Role in Promoting the Corporate State
I found this article in the Arizona Republic, our local rag, almost criminal. As far as it goes, I think the facts are correct. What is amazing is what it leaves out. First, the article: Glendale...
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What Joe Arpaio's PR Activity Has Been Displacing
While Sheriff Joe was pursuing a vendetta against County officials, chasing down Mexicans with broken tail lights, and raiding dry cleaners demanding immigration papers, over 400 sexual assaults were...
View ArticleClaiming to Find One Variable That Explains Absolutely Everything in a...
Of late I have been seeing a lot of examples of people trying to claim that complex, even chaotic multi-variable systems are in fact driven by a single variable. Whether it be CO2 in climate or...
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Life in Phoenix
The first time I ever saw one of these coming at me, my first thought was to a Steven King novel (the Mist). I had a moment where I honestly thought to myself, "I wonder if, five minutes from now, I...
View ArticleUgh - Proposals for Loyalty Oaths
Arizona is generally more intelligently managed, at least fiscally, than California. But while that state still is treated seriously for all its dysfunctionality, Arizona is often a media laughing...
View ArticleArguing Against Personal Interest
The best time to argue for general principles is when they work against one's own interest, to firmly establish that they are indeed principles rather than political opportunism. Two examples: First,...
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More Arizona DMV Madness
My daughter is ready for her final (in-car) driving test to try to get her driver's license. But it turns out that the AZ DMV only gives driving tests before 3PM each day. This is yet another policy...
View ArticleHopefully, The Phoenix Police Won't Find You Odd
Raymond Rodden was arrested and dragged to the police station for interrogation for a) taking pictures of the Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Court Building (not a crime) and b) walking down an alley (also...
View ArticleArpaio Busted For Crime Sweeps
I am a little late to this, via the Washington Post A federal judge ruled on Friday that Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his deputies had violated the constitutional rights of Latinos by targeting them during...
View ArticleThe Next Step in Regulation Madness
So, what is the next danger to the Republic that requires coercive government control to protect us all from disaster? Pedicabs: Operating a pedicab used to be cheap and easy. A person could make a...
View ArticleCorporate Welfare and the Thin Edge of the Wedge
The other day, the City of Glendale approved a deal which has the city subsidizing (more in a second) the buyers of the Phoenix Coyotes hockey team to get them to actually stay in town rather than move...
View ArticleArizona's Real Immigration Issue: Californians
Some libertarians, who would normally be all for open immigration, have expressed concern about -- in the name of liberty -- allowing into the country people who will generally vote against it. I have...
View ArticleFetishizing An Enormous F*ckup
From the location of the Yarnell fire deaths: "We are going to hallowed ground," says Jim Paxon, spokesman for the Arizona Forestry Division, moments before leading reporters and TV crews to the site...
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Can We Please End the Drug War Now
Recently small town Grantville, Georgia police chief Doug Jordan flew out to meet with our very own Sheriff Joe. Following their meeting, Jordan expressed his hopes to establish Grantville’s own drug...
View ArticleAll Is Right With the World Again
Arizona State has climbed back into the top 10 party school rankings. This is the same institution that is opposing Grand Canyon University's entry into Division I athletics because, as a for-profit...
View ArticleApparently No Mistakes Were Made in Yarnell Fire
The official report is out, and apparently absolutely no mistakes were made by anyone leading to the deaths of 19 in the Yarnell Hill fires. Despite the fact that -- these 19 men were totally out of...
View ArticleStill Open, But....
Our concession operations on Federal lands are still mostly open today (we had two US Forest Service local offices ask us to close, but these are both offices that have a tradition of interpreting the...
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