Monthly Archives: April 2008

Good decision, terrible process to get to it

Look who the latest person is to realize capital punishment is pointless: The nation’s longest-serving Supreme Court justice, John Paul Stevens, on Wednesday declared his formal opposition to capital punishment. Stevens, 87, was part of the court majority that reinstated … Continue reading

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Some of that American ingenuity…

It was only a matter of time.  Someone actually said to themselves “y’know what would make this cocaine even better?  Fruit & candy flavors!”, then did something about it. What?  If they can have chocolate flavored tobacco…

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Incompetance and cronyism help Karma bite Uncle Sam in the ass

In an attempt to more efficiently enforce what in practice is unenforceable — income tax law — the federal government contracted out tax debt collections. Hilarity ensues: The Internal Revenue Service expects to lose more than $37 million by using … Continue reading

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Good. Now, the logical conclusion…

Shorter Brad Reed: “If you have a chance in hell of political power, you are part of the elite.  Calling other elites ‘elitist’ is horseshit.” Of course they’re the elite.  For the most part they generally come from the same … Continue reading

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Easy way to piss off an imperialist

If they have a kid, get them this for their birthday. Props.

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"Quick, hand out more crutches!!"

As an unfortunate side-effect of our UNfree trade policy, global markets are setup like a huge string of dominoes.  You know how that goes — flick over the one at the end, and everything else starts to fall.  That domino … Continue reading

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Welcome to the New Site

Psychopolitik has been moved to a new server.  Please advise if you encounter any problems. -Admin

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The easiest answer, too late

Re: the whole subprime-mortgage, debt-as-commodity mess: It seems to me that heading this off would’ve been as simple as making it so that if a bank that gave a loan wanted to pass it around like that they’d have to … Continue reading

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Semi-random drastic understatement

Moving sucks.  Heavy stuff long distances… More coming soon, I’z back.

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