I’m crazy? When I went to your schools, I went to your churches, I went to your institutional learning facilities?
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in art | No Comments »Suicidal Tendencies, "Institutionalized", 1983 Oh BTW: the fact that the name "Mike" appears in this song is sheer coincidence. Just like the massive military/civilian drills for multiple simultaneous terrorist airline hijackings were on 9/11. Sometimes I try to do things and it ...
American financial collapse strikes close to home
Sunday, September 14th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in economics | 2 Comments »My ex-wife sent an interesting link along yesterday, joking, "Wanna invest in some Florida real estate?" [caption id="attachment_531" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Home sweet foreclosure"][/caption] This was our first house, purchased new in 1995 for about US$64,000 in Winter Springs, Florida. After we left ...
Unabashed anti-Americanism
Friday, September 5th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary, philosophy | 3 Comments »Since I am tired of answering the question "are you anti-American?" here it is. YES, I am anti-American. But let's clarify a few things. I don't think that the words "I" or "am" or the prefix "anti-" need any clarification. What does ...
SmokeFreeNiue.nu
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in police | No Comments »Tiny South Pacific Niue is one of the world's smallest countries, perhaps only ever known to most denizens of the intertubes by the ".nu" top-level domain which continues to enjoy popularity. Today, Niue is on the road to the world's first ...
It’s about control, and any excuse will do
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in police, torture | 1 Comment »Remember back in the day when they told us that they'd never, never use any of those shiny new "for your own safety" seat belt laws as "primary offenses"? That people wouldn't get pulled over merely for risking their own ...
42 days: UK accelerates slide into police state
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in police, politics, prison, surveillance | 3 Comments »It is a principle of English common law that if the State is to arrest someone, it must charge them with a crime in relatively short order, or release them. It is known as the habeas corpus doctrine, and has ...
Toms River, NJ-area taxpayers billed $350,000 for botched drug raid
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in police | No Comments »Just another isolated incident... and what better way for the clown suits to avoid culpability than just stealing more of the slaves'citizenry's money to buy off the case? From the Asbury Park Press: Beaten in raid, man gets $350G EXCESSIVE FORCE ALLEGED A Toms ...
Raising $331 million annually for wildlife refuges in a snap
Saturday, May 24th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in environment | No Comments »From CNN: ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- America's wildlife refuges are so short of money that one-third have no staff, boardwalks and buildings are in disrepair, and drug dealers are using them to grow marijuana and make methamphetamine, a group pushing for ...
The clown suit defense, and the excuses of symbols
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in police | 6 Comments »Stumble! Many years ago, when I was an activist campaigner for drug policy reform in the United States, there was an occasional but extremely cogent contributor to the quasi-underground listservs that bound the community together. Sadly, I can't even remember ...
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