Today is “Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day”!Wait. Is that date banner correct? December 31st? Damn machine still has bugs it, Its three weeks off. That’s what I get for buying cut rate flux capacitors.
Perry de Havilland, one of the pro-war on terror libertarians over at Samizdata, mulls over the prospect of a Ron Paul presidency, and decides to root for his victory in spite of Paul’s “Bring the troops home” stance.I’ve already voted for an anti-war candidate in 2004 with the Libertarian Party’s nominee Michael Badnarick, so my […]
Over in the Macintosh net-community there was a lot of cry about the sudden $200 drop in the iPhone’s price when it happened a few months back.The Mac community is no stranger the the concept of the “early adopter tax” where the people who gotta have the latest thing as soon as it hits the […]
Tucker Carlson on the campaign trail with Ron Paul:: I wasn’t planning on showing up at Paul’s press conference with a bordello owner and two hookers, but unexpected things happen on the road. I thought after the death of Hunter Thompson I’d never read a sentence like that again in a news article. I’d forgotten […]
Commentary Magazine: …the fact that 14 percent of Americans now only use cellphones. Pollsters haven’t figured out how to factor in cellphones, so that’s 14 percent of the potential electorate missing from their sample to begin with. Add further the fact that many people — no one has a number, but it is significant — […]
Last year I participated in a comment thread at Blog@Newsarama on a post about the New Guardians, a team book that didn’t succeed (with reason).Others, and myself, commented on the crossover event that New Guardians had been spun off from, Millennium.From Matt D.’s comment:From an “architectual” standpoint, Millennium is one of the best crossovers I’ve […]
Lee Harris’ Reflections on ‘Blowback’ at TCS Daily is a column that challenges the libertarian argument for non-intervention.It is a bit simplistic (though Harris is wordy enough to make it look complex) to say that unintended consequences, a.k.a. “blowback,” can come from not acting as well as acting. It ignores the fact that staying out […]
My grandmother passed away recently. From the obituary posted over at VillageSoup.com: ROCKLAND (Dec 15): Elizabeth F. Levasseur, 90, died following an extended illness, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007 at Quarry Hill in Camden. Born June 24, 1917 in Brattleboro, Vermont, she was the daughter of Edward and Carla Ebbinghausen Flood. Educated in Brattleboro, parochial […]
Self publishing has a long (albeit rocky) history in comics. More and more recording artists are doing the same for music.Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Radiohead Cuts Out Two Middlemen
Beth Simone Noveck, of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas:…New technology may be changing the relationship between democracy and expertise, affording an opportunity to improve competence by making good information available for better governance.Noveck examines how people could potentially help improve the regulatory and legislative processes via wiki-like participation.It’s not as radical as one would think. […]
from Megan McArdle (November 27, 2007) - Real libertarians didn’t …: The central problem that libertarians sort of tried to grapple with, and then gave up in favor of shouting with each other, is how to reconcile respect for sovereignty with libertarian contempt for the state—particularly in states like Iraq, where respect for human liberty […]