Coffee and Provocation

• The Ohio-based maker of BuckEye Trail Cams, which sends videos and digital photos wirelessly to a cell base, and then to a personal computer or smart phone, now counts the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as its biggest customer.
  
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• How bad is the economy?  You know the economy is bad when someone steals a steel bridge.  That's a lot like work!
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• A Mountain Lion was found on campus at Stanford.  To be clear, this is the Standford Preserve, not downtown.
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• For those Occupying Anything Anywhere Ever, here's a nice little video on how to break free from the kind of zip ties that the cops are using when they do mass-arrests these days.
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• California is going to protect it's archeology sites the old-fashioned way -- by covering them in Poison Oak.
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• India has a $35 tablet computer.  Yes it's subsidized, but it's not crazy to think if you promise to buy 10 books, your tablet reader will now be free.  I would do that deal, and so would you.
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• The banks are not just screwing disabled American vets out of millions, and they are not just screwing the American public out of billions in pensions, to say nothing of collapsing the American real estate market; they are also investing billions of dollars in environmental rip-rape-and-ruin in the form of mountain top coal removal.  If you ever get to sit on a jury where you can pound Bank of America, CitiBank, Credit Suisse​, Deutsche Bank, GE Capital​, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, PNC, UBS or Wells Fargo flat, let me know as I will sing your praises for doing so!
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• Science PROVES that the chicken came before the egg.  You will like it.  Promise.
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• Melissa Etheridge taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in her swimming pool.
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