A Perspective on Death in the Guns in America Symposium.

I just got published! (sort of, not really [1])
It's a science fiction story. (sort of, not really [2])
It was well-received. (true!)

Lybertopia

[1] The League of Ordinary Gentlemen is a blog. But I had to get my submission accepted; that was not guaranteed.

[2] It's a slice-of-life, not a story. No plot. Could be the beginning of a story.

I was going to write something about Liberals-vs-Libertarians, but Doctroid motivated me to write this instead so it will have to wait.

Why I am voting for Gary Johnson....

First, I need to address the notion that I am "wasting my vote." ( Read more... )

Pretty nuanced, too - you can expand the list of answers if the simple responses are too simplistic for you ( Read more... )

John Stossel's latest segment on FBN was about "Crony Capitalism." You can read and see videos related to it by Googling "Stossel crony capitalism". Some good examples - my friends, it goes way beyond Wall Street. In particular, the discussion of how (some of) the regulated firms manage to capture the regulatory process for their own competitive ( Read more... )

(Third, probably last, in a series of rants inspired by Doctroid's post "Health and the Republic"Stossel already did a riff on this, as did http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo176.html and Read more... )

(Second in a series of rants inspired by Doctroid's post "Health and the Republic"Doctroid wrote that the true enemy of progressivism is not conservatism, but "the corporatization of government or, if you prefer to look at it differently, government intrusion into the corporate world. Or to put it a third and perhaps more correct way, the growing ( Read more... )

(First of a series of rants inspired by Doctroid's post "Health and the Republic"Doctroid wrote "I still believe the Republican party of the early 21st century is far more evil - and I use that word deliberately and mean it literally - than the Democrats ( Read more... )