"There are a lot of ways to practice the art of journalism, and one of them is to use your art like a hammer to destroy the right people" - Hunter S. Thompson
Part Three of Three – Gun Control (and a few weird ideas no-one seems to be talking about).
To a very few the prospect of taking up arms against a defenseless civilian group becomes conceivable and … Read more…
CryptoParty is a decentralized, global initiative to introduce basic cryptography tools – such as the Tor anonymity network, public key encryption (PGP/GPG), and OTR (Off The Record messaging) – to the general public.
Now you may … Read more…
Part One of Three – Introduction, a Few Truths, and Mental Health
This series sets out to examine some of the psychosocial factors that conspire to create public massacres like those at Sandy Hook and … Read more…
I was driving East towards Maryland on the 76 Turnpike and I couldn’t get last night’s Frontline show from PBS out of my head. It had enraged me and mixed my emotions about this trip … Read more…
Russia Today news (RT) recently reported that the NDAA 2013 has authorized a pre-emptive nuclear attack against China. The new law is a supposed contingency plan for countering a possible attack from China’s stockpile of … Read more…
The West, Part II
Further into the flat dry plains of the New Mexico desert, my bride and I pushed our tinny little old Japanese shitbox car. The effects of what little food I had ingested … Read more…
My drive cross-country from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh can be easily divided into two categories, The West and The South.
The West
A student writing her college loan on the Debt Bubble at the Occupy Wall Street in New York
The “Fiscal Cliff” is not simply hyperbole leftover from the Presidential campaign. It’s an impending disaster that will … Read more…
Now that we’ve had some time to reflect on the election, I think the biggest story to come out of it has to be the right-wing’s complete divorce from reality. Anything to do with statistics, … Read more…
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