Friday, August 27, 2010

weblog

Political coup by lame duck Governor and a pissed-off MSC judge change the political alignment of Michigan's highest court

Accused Flint serial killer arraigned

"Crocodile Dundee" actor banned from foreign travel until he pays disputed taxes

Regaining your privacy from GPS tracking devices. Albeit illegally.

The idiocy of deindustrialization.
"Not content to re-enact the British cycle of deindustrialization and decline, the U.S. imports British pundits to lecture Americans on nineteenth-century free market ideology. Asking dogmatic British free marketers how to organize a successful economy in the twenty-first century is the equivalent of asking unreconstructed Japanese militarists how to run a successful foreign policy or asking Iranian mullahs how to create a world-class R&D sector."