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van.mojo
Sekrit Dezzurt HedQuarters
Semi-Retired Professional Trouble Maker
Interests: Philosophy, Politics, History, Baseball, Basketball, Irish Music
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Dangerous Days....
"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake..." -- James Joyce From the "For What It's Worth" file... here's something that's been... Continue reading
Posted Nov 18, 2016 at the mojowire
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The Mojo Signal
Posted Nov 13, 2016 at the mojowire
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Mojowire... The Next Generation!
So, yeah, this is really happening! Stand by for podcast. For real, this time. No, really! Hey, where are you going? This is really happening... Continue reading
Posted Feb 12, 2016 at the mojowire
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Breaking News! Supreme Court Justices Dispense Actual Justice! In other news... Mock Not the Mighty Oracular Power of the Mojowire!
Here is a flashback to a Mojowire bit from 10Aug2010 when the trial court decided the "Perry" case and it became clear that it was... Continue reading
Posted Jun 26, 2015 at the mojowire
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On the Precipice of Change
So... here we are... almost 2015. We will not recount the many failings of 2014, other than to say that there were many and they... Continue reading
Posted Dec 27, 2014 at the mojowire
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The Latest From The 'Wire
So in case you are one of the very few people I have not been harassing lately with attempts to get the Mojowire Kickstarter funded,... Continue reading
Posted Sep 30, 2014 at the mojowire
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van.mojo is now following Wendy Russell
Sep 29, 2014
Epic scud! But help me out here... When/how did BigData become a tool of the leftist collective coming to steal all the white man's golfs? Were we drinking at the bar next door *again*? From this point forward, I move all of these meetings of the international leftist conspiracy be moved to the bar... I'm sick of missing these votes!
Commented Jul 30, 2014 on What's your damage Heather? at the mojowire
What's your damage Heather?
Apparently the D-Bags in the Ayn Rand fan club are sick of you Nerds picking on them. One part insecure hipsterism, one part unwarranted condescension, the two defining characteristics of self-professed nerds are (a) the belief that one can discover all of the secrets of human experience thr...
A Mojowire Quickie: This Editor's Take on the Current State of Israel
This started as a response to someone in their comment section, but started to run long, so I thought I would set it up here... Continue reading
Posted Jul 22, 2014 at the mojowire
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An Open Letter to the Conservative Gun Culture...
Dear Movement Conservatives of the Gun Culture, Can we talk? I know, I know, any moment now Obama's blue beret-wearing UN Socialist/Muslim/Illuminati/One-World Sekrit Army is... Continue reading
Posted Jul 16, 2014 at the mojowire
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Memo to NSA Cubicle Dweller Reading This...
Look, I don't think you are a bad person per se... I don't know you anymore than you really know me, so don't take this... Continue reading
Posted Aug 20, 2013 at the mojowire
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The Perils of Legal Positivism: The Real Question About the Zimmerman Verdict
“The existence of law is one thing; its merit and demerit another. Whether it be or be not is one enquiry; whether it be or... Continue reading
Posted Aug 11, 2013 at the mojowire
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Write a Code, Go to Jail!
Well, this was predictable... It really was only a matter of time in the current environment. It looks like the Obama Administration is going to... Continue reading
Posted Aug 11, 2013 at the mojowire
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Special side wager for Provider S9: Provider Mojo bets 1000 quatloos that in the next five years, we see a coder go to jail for a long time just for *writing* software that resists decryption by the state.
Commented Aug 1, 2013 on Greetings from the Providers of Triskelion at the mojowire
Greetings from the Providers of Triskelion
To: Foolish Earthlings From: Provider Biz (Green Brain on the right) Subject: Hello from the Providers Greetings, Since I am disembodied brain on a farway planet who has slight gambling problem, I occasionaly place a few bets. Gladiatorial combats on alient planets, fo...
'B' Ark Congress
I can't remember if this was in the original book or just the original BBC radio play script, but towards the end of "The Hitchhikers'... Continue reading
Posted Jul 9, 2013 at the mojowire
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Okay, we'll make this quick...
The Wire is back up and live. There's a lot to talk about, and we'll be getting to it all soon enough here... The NSA,... Continue reading
Posted Jul 6, 2013 at the mojowire
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A Few Heartfelt Words About The Election...
This post was originally going to be some incredulous snark about The Senile Josey Wales and his rambling, pointless 12 minutes with an empty chair... Continue reading
Posted Sep 10, 2012 at the mojowire
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What's Past is Prologue... Meditations on 1996
Reading a little of Charles Pierce's fine blog posts on his trip "up the river" to confront Colonel R-Money in Tampa this week, I have... Continue reading
Posted Aug 27, 2012 at the mojowire
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Mittens R-Money picks kid who eats paste to be VP
Look, I was going to blog this out, but as usual Charles Pierce has not only said it best, but said it first... so the... Continue reading
Posted Aug 11, 2012 at the mojowire
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Hippy Punching in Lakeside
So it's been a couple of days since this incident and I have been trying to figure out what I want to say about it.... Continue reading
Posted Jul 24, 2012 at the mojowire
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Amendment VII: In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States
Okay... that headline is out on a bit of a limb here, but... Usually this would be the space where I or one of my... Continue reading
Posted Jul 19, 2012 at the mojowire
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The problem is that I think the tax arguement is most effective for people who don't have either a firm opinion or grasp on ACA.
It is the easiest dance step the GOP knows "Democrats are raising your taxes!" And in this case it is nominally true for some 4 to 6 percent of population.
To push back will be to have to explain the law, and that has been something of a failure for the past two years in a large macro-political sense.
Commented Jun 29, 2012 on The End of America as We Know It (And I feel fine...) at the mojowire
The End of America as We Know It (And I feel fine...)
During the past 24 hours or so as the Supremes decided to uphold the ACA (or RomneyCare as we like to call it in the Wire's editorial bullpen) I have been seeing lots of bloody-shirt-waving, pearl-clutching, wailing, weeping and gnashing-o'-teeth variations on "The-End-Of-America-As-We-Know-It!!...
The End of America as We Know It (And I feel fine...)
During the past 24 hours or so as the Supremes decided to uphold the ACA (or RomneyCare as we like to call it in the... Continue reading
Posted Jun 29, 2012 at the mojowire
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All Your Base Are Belong To Booker
My fellow libs and Dems need to chill out over the self-serving hype surrounding Cory Booker's intellectually-crippled apologia for Bain Capital. At the end of... Continue reading
Posted May 21, 2012 at the mojowire
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The two most important posts you'll read today...
Get thee hence to Jack Balkin's salt mine of legal wisdom: Balkinzation and read up on the latest in American democratic republic fail. From there... Continue reading
Posted May 21, 2012 at the mojowire
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