DuhAs to whether there is a bigger issue -- plenty of liberal institutions and professors are quite happy to teach J.S. Mill (um, he's only THE FOUNDER OF MODERN LIBERALISM, you IDIOTS), and students are done no disservice by keeping Ayn Rand off any serious reading lists ( Read more... )

"The greatest ownership is embracement of emptiness."

...sigh.

Discriminatory insurance rate setting should be no surprise to anyone, pernicious as it is. (Certainly it's unsurprising to any under-25 male who's bought auto insurance ( Read more... )

This was an interesting article (from a few weeks back -- forgot to link it!), not so much for its content (two cheers for evidence-based medicine, given the trenchant criticisms of unthinking over-commitment to this approach) as for the fact that you don't often see a by-line including both Newt Gingrich and John KerryAlso, John Kerry was Lt. ( Read more... )

In a year in which almost every pronouncement about America's racial zeitgeist from the High Temples of the Press has been wrong, I am officially asking you to shut up about it before you jinx it...Okay, the above statement, while mercifully brief, sounds like the impending twitterization of this journal. Since I'm nothing if not long-form, I was ( Read more... )

Very brief thought ( Read more... )

Awesome.

"Unlike those more expensive delicacies [the canned tuna, crab, chicken, and oysters also offered by the commissary], former prisoners say, the mack is a good stand-in for the greenback because each can (or pouch) costs about $1 and few -- other than weight-lifters craving protein -- want to eat it."

Man, I like mackerel. I guess I'd ( Read more... )

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Meanwhile, while you were worried about the economy...

Of course, no present or future President would dream of trying to disperse protesters with a whiff of grapeshot...

Had today off. So I met up with Moonlightalice for a late lunch and came home, hoping to gchat some, prior to meeting up with brontoz0rus who was showing off my car to a potential buyer ( Read more... )