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    I’m an opinionated Grumpy Old Man. I enjoy the intellectual give and take that goes along with that, but have very little patience for stupid people (Note: there is a big difference between “stupid” and “educated”. Some of the stupidest people I’ve ever met have a PhD…). Beside arguing, I like to build things in almost any media. Right now I’m mostly building in wood, Lego, and a bunch of different electronic media. I teach in a number of different venues - from preschool all the way through graduate school. Subjects range from talmud to neuroscience to engineering.

    For fun, I like to bash people with swords (OK, so they’re made of foam. It’s still fun). Although I spend a lot of my time in a wheelchair, I manage to keep pretty active (Like bashing people with swords). I am a libertarian, and have a hard time finding anything good to say about government or politicians. OK, politicians might make good sausage, but that's about as good as it gets.

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border guards beats up author Peter Watts

Posted on December 14, 2009 by sphyrnatude

Check it out here: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/11/dr-peter-watts-canad.html and here: http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/ Turns out simply asking why you are being detained and/or searched is grounds for being beaten by the US border guards. Then getting charged with assault for allowing said guards to beat you up. Constitutional rights? Nah, he’s a Canadian after all. Basic civil rights?  Civil? in [...]

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Its been a bad month for the cops….

Posted on October 12, 2009 by sphyrnatude

This post was prompted by observing that for the first time since I began blogging, posts about police misconduct have jumped to the #1 most-read posts on the whole site. While these posts are important and have always had a small number of regular readers, it is very strange to have them jump from the [...]

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cop shot fire chief in back during hearing. No charges filed?

Posted on September 4, 2009 by sphyrnatude

OK, go read this before you go any further: Courtroom shooting. this looks more like the plot for a bad Hollywood movie from the 70′s about crooked cops. What is truly amazing is that even after the cop shot the fire chief IN COURT, in front of witnesses, the cop wasn’t even charged. Remember, it [...]

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more police abuse: Proffesor Gates and Crowley the thug.

Posted on July 25, 2009 by sphyrnatude

Here we go again. Yet another case of some cop acting like a mindless thug. Lets take a look at what happened: A lady calls in to the cops, reporting that 2 large black men are trying to force open her neighbors door. Officer Crowley shows up, and finds an elderly black man, who walks [...]

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