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The never-ending conversation on life, liberty, and sequential art…

…with Shawn Levasseur.

Archive for July, 2006

Now this is just wrong…

Posted on July 24th, 2006 by Shawn L.

At Tikistitch’s livejournal:via Newsarama

Not my idea of employee relations…

Posted on July 20th, 2006 by Shawn L.

What if Darth Vader was a day shift manager at a grocery? See for yourself in the short film “Day Shift”(via Montior Duty)

Communist? Them’s fightin’ words!

Posted on July 18th, 2006 by Shawn L.

Hoo boy. I usually don’t get into knock-down drag out verbal brawls on the net. They are so hard to keep civil, and rarely influence anyone.Sometimes, however, someone says something so boneheaded I have to do my best to show the holes in their argument. Today I encountered such a situation when I read at […]

Advancing Medicine… A link and some random thoughts.

Posted on July 18th, 2006 by Shawn L.

There’s been lots of talk about how to better pay for medical costs. Sadly there’s been little advancement on controlling the costs save for financial tricks and rationing systems of one form or another.Technologies have been advancing in many fields and making many aspects of modern life better and more affordable. Medicine has not added […]

Soundtrack to the Comic Book: V for Vedetta

Posted on July 7th, 2006 by Shawn L.

For readers of the classic Alan Moore graphic novel “V for Vendetta”, here’s the album that contains the music inspired by and taken from the book.When I saw the movie adaptation that recently came out, I was disappointed that the song that was featured in the introduction to book 2 of the story, “This Vicious […]

DrawerBoxes – Anyone in Maine wanna buy some?

Posted on July 7th, 2006 by Shawn L.

WANTED: Comic collectors interested in a new concept in comic book storage: Drawer Boxes:Traditional “Short Box” or “Long Box” forms of comic book storage boxes are simple cardboard boxes with lids, specially sized to hold comic books. Drawer Boxes work like file cabinets. The box of comics slides inside an outer “sleeve” box to create […]

It’s Conan, the…. Pimp ?!?!

Posted on July 7th, 2006 by Shawn L.

from Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog,,,Supporting my theory that the 70’s was the decade that NO ONE got out of with their dignity in tact.Technorati Tags: Comics, Conan, Marvel Comics, Pimps, 70’s

Reminding us that we won the Cold War.

Posted on July 5th, 2006 by Shawn L.

from Ann Althouse:It’s a good thing — isn’t it? — that we’re more interested in Prada than Pravda.

Graveyards

Posted on July 5th, 2006 by Shawn L.

from “They were elevated moral landscapes…” from Ann Alhouse (who in turn is quoting from the Guardian):Cemeteries were… once. Shouldn’t they be, again? Meet the cemetery architect.“People always say it’s ghoulish,” [Michael Howe] says, “but we also design things like lavatories and bathrooms, and that’s much more icky. Designing cemeteries is a lot more interesting […]

Hint to the Democrats: Follow the money toward insanity, or broaden the base.

Posted on July 5th, 2006 by Shawn L.

It looks like some of the far left blogoshphere have become big money raisers for political campaigns. Since much of the money is spent on ads at these same websites, there has been some pseudo-scandal about. (No crimes, it just looks ‘icky’ to some)But another effect is that they have been gaining a disproportionate level […]

DrawerBoxes – Anyone in Maine wanna buy some?

Posted on July 3rd, 2006 by Shawn L.

WANTED: Comic collectors interested in a new concept in comic book storage: Drawer Boxes:Traditional “Short Box” or “Long Box” forms of comic book storage boxes are simple cardboard boxes with lids, specially sized to hold comic books. Drawer Boxes work like file cabinets. The box of comics slides inside an outer “sleeve” box to create […]

DeadLess than Live-Blogging the Oscars…

Posted on July 3rd, 2006 by Shawn L.

From my earlier post on my lack of watching the Oscars:Stay tuned… Sometime this week it’ll happen…… Would you believe, sometime this year?Didn’t think so.

DeadLess than Live-Blogging the Oscars…

Posted on July 3rd, 2006 by Shawn L.

From my earlier post on my lack of watching the Oscars:Stay tuned… Sometime this week it’ll happen…… Would you believe, sometime this year? Didn’t think so.

Micro-Papers

Posted on July 3rd, 2006 by Shawn L.

Small newspapers, targeted to a specific topic and audience are shows as a possible future of the newspaper in BuzzmachineIn London, two former execs from the Swedish Metro free paper started a daily freebie targeted at finance, and the Guardian reports that City AM is now distributing more copies than the Financial Times. The niche […]

Merry Marvel Hayek Blogging Society

Posted on July 3rd, 2006 by Shawn L.

A rather simplified version of The Road to Serfdom in comics form at Mises.org http://www.mises.org/TRTS.htm via Hit & Run, from Liberty & Power Technorati Tags: Comics, Hayek, Libertarianism, Politics