this search might come up with some excellent examples: http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=global+warming

For a more detailed look at this, try http://slashdot.org/story/06/0...

Like Prohibition - which was not so much anti-alcohol, as a white rural reaction against the growing dominance of urban areas and their populations of (beer drinking) immigrants. It was an early form of our culture wars, with the drugs acting as a proxy for reaction against deeper social changes.

I am waiting for the ads for H1B candidates for these positions.

Another job that kept so many American employed now outsourced to foreigners.

Mick Jagger developed this in the '60s, before he became a specialist in historical cryptography :

Paint it Black

A dog's sense of smell is amazing. I bet a dog could tell if a search warrant is valid or not by smell alone. Perhaps the ACLU should train some of those dogs, to find invalid search warrants and prevent violations of the 4th amendment.

What if you loaded the thumb drive with pictures of squirrels? Would the dog recognize that?

Actually, that is the historical origination of private property under the English system. This was also the case with "empty" land (meaning devoid of Europeans) annexed by the US throughout its history. Original owner was the Federal government, which then delegated ownership to others (railroads, homesteaders) by deeding the property to them provided certain obligations were met (build a railroad, occupy and cultivate the land, etc.).

The idea that private ownership of land precedes government is a weird libertarian fantasy.

You in fact *do* lease your property from the government.

name it Ozzy

Because private detective agencies hired by private employers to snoop on workers and ruin them is OK AND is FREEDOM.

Laws to prevent this are bad because GOVERNMENT EVIL.

For a real example of private company goon squads, try the Ford "Service Department"

The album, "I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus" was a computerized theme park parody.

It featured an episode with an animatronic President Nixon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The computerized replica president failed when presented with a logical paradox presented as a question.

*Not* being a college graduate is a certain guarantee of a lifetime of poorly paying jobs.

and for the skilled mostly blue-collar jobs that are vital to our society but do not require 4-year degrees.

Once a skilled trade provided a good shot at a decent middle-class livelihood. Something has happened to devalue these skills.

Young people get college degrees for which they are unsuited because it appears there is no alternative.

Despite all the jokes about degreed barristas working for the minimum wage, the absence of a degree is now the best way to ensure a lifetime of poorly paid jobs.

Of course they used language. Early seafarers used terms like "Arr" and "Avast", hence the pirate-like roots of most modern languages.

Well, the NSA already spies on traffic carried by privately owned semi-monopoly communications concerns.

Given that we've already lost that one, we now have the worst of both worlds - poor service and high prices from unregulated monopolies, combined with government spying which those monopolies cheerfully provide the government.

As a homeowner, that $2,000 is a small fraction of the price to fix a leaky roof.

We had to redo an ancient sewer system at a cost of $15,000

$2k for really fast internet would be a bargain.