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Libertarians, Take Your Pick: U.S. or Singapore?

3rd December 2007

Read it. And take your pick. Not a libertarian? Fie upon you then.

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If Someone Picks Your Pocket In Second Life, Who Do You Blame?

3rd December 2007

Read it. I would say your parents, but that’s just me.

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Amazon’s Kindle eBook Reader

3rd December 2007

Read it. This comes recommended to me as the best review available — advice that is worth what you paid for it.

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Death, Taxes and Mrs. Clinton

1st December 2007

Peggy Noonan.

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A slice of Mencius Moldbug

30th November 2007

Read it. It has truly been too long.

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Sarkozy Says Riots Were ‘Thugocracy,’ Not a Social Crisis

30th November 2007

Read it. Pretty embarassing when the French are more sensible than we are.

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A plea for more anthropology of ideology

29th November 2007

Read it. Not sure I’d be as willing as he is to give polemicists the benefit of the doubt with respect to these questions, but I’m naturally a cynical and suspicious personality.

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Social Engineers In Paradise

29th November 2007

Read it. George Will spanks some Democrats. Fun to watch.

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The Death Penalty

28th November 2007

Steve Sailer points out a good reason to have the death penalty.

Of course, those who maintain that the death penalty doesn’t provide any deterrent effect will deny this.

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Open Source Rough Justice

28th November 2007

Read it. I am of two minds about this sort of thing. On the one hand, social pressure has for millenia been the way that what, for want of a better term, one might call “good manners” have been enforced. On the other, we often wind up in Romeo-and-Juliet situations that can be pretty tragic. I suspect that it will be a while before we work out a livable balance between these two concerns; I’m hoping that it will be sooner rather than later.

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Shelby Steele’s book on Barack Obama

27th November 2007

Read it. Steve Sailer talks about Shelby Steele talk about Barack Obama. Well, I guess you had to be there.

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The Rise of Family-Friendly Cities

27th November 2007

Read it. There’s still a long way to go.

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What Michael Gerson’s “Heroic Conservatism” gets wrong.

27th November 2007

Read it.

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That ‘Top One Percent’

27th November 2007

Thomas Sowell points out some inconvenient truth.

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Is Lincoln Earliest Recorded Case of Rare Disease?

26th November 2007

Read it.

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Where does Hillary Clinton stand on economic issues?

26th November 2007

Read it. Impossible to say, really.

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Huckabee, the False Conservative

26th November 2007

Robert Novak pulls the trigger.

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Why Did So Many Libertarians Support the War?

25th November 2007

Read it. Well, maybe because Muslims (unlike Communists) are nutters? That’s just a theory, you understand.

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SF Chronicle’s Sneaky Comment Deletion Trick

24th November 2007

Read it. I wonder whether that trick works on spam comments too?

Nobody told me, before I started this blog, that the chief expense is tracking down the people who put spam links in the comments and then paying someone to go break their fingers. It can add up.

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…as a whole, our society is as willfully ignorant of basic statistical concepts as the Pirahã are of counting.

24th November 2007

Read it. And take it to heart.

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The summit of the nerd pyramid

24th November 2007

Sometimes Steve Sailer comes up with some pretty scary stuff. Tell the truth: Would you want to breed from any of these people? I am not optimistic about our species.

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Guns and the Constitution

24th November 2007

Read it.

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Can Silicon Valley Repeal The Laws Of Economics?

22nd November 2007

Read it. Hint: No.

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The Tragedy of the Commons

21st November 2007

John Stossel points out that Thanksgiving is about showing how socialism doesn’t work.

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Do double modals really exist?

20th November 2007

Read it. They might could.

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Turning Phones Into Computers Means They’ll Have Computer-Like Security Issues

20th November 2007

Read it. Never had this problem with Western Electric.

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Exhausted grammar

20th November 2007

Read it. Why must everyone pick on Shatner?

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The Care Bear Stare Won’t Fix the World

20th November 2007

Rod Dreher has some inconvenient truth.

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Washington todayIncome Confusion

20th November 2007

Thomas Sowell is always worth reading.

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One Ring To Rule Them All, Mate

18th November 2007

Read it. Giving New Zealand a run for its money.

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Who your relatives are matters

18th November 2007

Steve Sailer gets back to basics. As my old granny used to say, “Trash comes from trash.”

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Do men and women use different parts of their natural pitch ranges?

17th November 2007

Read it. Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Communication by omission

16th November 2007

Read it. I wonder what it must be like to have a life that consists of one eternal anxiety attack.

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Think globally, protect amorphously

16th November 2007

Read it. Is bad grammar hazardous to your health?

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Viva Triangulation!

16th November 2007

Mickey Kaus is one of those rare people, a liberal with interesting ideas.

Some problems are loaf-splitting problems–funding for the arts, maybe, or roads. They’re easy to solve. But I’d argue that precisely because they’re easy to solve most of them have been solved already. The problems we’re left with are problems where one side or the other is willing to fight to the death to protect a core demand that must be denied to achieve a solution.

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Why stupid questions are important

16th November 2007

Read it.

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Memo to Ron Paul Supporters

16th November 2007

Mona Charen sums up what’s wrong with Ron Paul.

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Brain implant, software enables patients to think out loud

15th November 2007

Read it. Just what we need….

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Choosing a College

13th November 2007

David Friedman, a person smarter than you or I, has some advice.

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Farmers Ask Federal Court To Dissociate Hemp and Pot

12th November 2007

Read it. Thank you for not using “disassociate”.

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The Topic du jour

11th November 2007

Arnold Kling looks around and sees a lot of discussion of IQ and genetics.

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Why are Hollywood Unions Powerful?

11th November 2007

Read it. An interesting situation.

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Subjective Status or Fooling Our Genes

10th November 2007

Read it. Once again, as he does so well, David Friedman comes up with a mind-bender.

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New helmet allows fighter pilots to peer through the jet

10th November 2007

Read it. You will be assimilated … resistance is futile….

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Dark Ages return in Baltimore?

10th November 2007

Read it.

You will remember (unless you went to a public school) that the Dark Ages were that period of European history where civilization was under attack from the pagan Vikings from the north, the pagan Magyars from the east, and the quasi-pagan Muslims from the south. But Christianity survived, and eventually flourished, and kicked their asses. The Vikings and Magyars got with the program and became Christian; the Muslims retreated into the barbarism whence they had sprung.

Perhaps it’s time for a little of that action yet again….

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This Sublunary Realm versus the Mountains of the Moon

9th November 2007

Steve Sailer is pretty much always worth reading.

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Why arranged marriage is costlier than you might think

9th November 2007

Read it. This is what you get when economists look at marriage. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

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Buddhist Boomers

9th November 2007

Read it.

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The Economist on the resurgence of religion

8th November 2007

Read it. Makes you wonder whether there would be any story there if certain people weren’t blowing up other people.

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Supercapitalism, by Robert Reich

6th November 2007

Read it. Yeah, I was surprised too.

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