Posted in news and links, politics, tagged aeroplane, airport, british airways, fear, flight, freedom, gun, heathrow, plane, security, t shirt, terrorism on May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Believe it or not, a guy was told he could not get on to the plane wearing his gun toting T-shirt. A picture of the offending T-shirt is below:
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — the terrorists’ greatest victory wasn’t bringing WTC down or carrying out those London bombings. It was changing liberal [...]
Posted in miscellaneous, people, travel and getaways, tagged adventure, adventurer, alone, documentary, island, life, primitive, secluded, xavier rosset on May 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Yep, its for real!
French explorer and adventurer Xavier Rosset is about to embark on a 300 day trip to live alone on a remote tropical island in the South Pacific. His adventures will be filmed and used for a 52 minute documentary.
Xavier’s only luggage will be a Swiss army knife, machete, video camera, and a [...]
Posted in miscellaneous, tagged blog, blogger, interview, me, pakistani spectator, personal on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My interview with the Pakistani Spectator.
Posted in libertarianism, news and links, tagged blog, growth, hard cases, ideas, ideology, libertarian, libertarian party, personal philosophy, writing on May 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I discovered this blog the other day. It has very few posts currently, but I really like all of them. The blog is called “Hard Cases: A Critique of Pure Libertarianism” and serves as a preview of an identically-titled book the author is writing.
My favourite post is probably this one, where the author describes his personal [...]
Posted in India, libertarianism, sci, tech and gizmos, tagged blackberry, encryption, India, laws, privacy, rim, security, wiretapping on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Indian government wants to be able to read all emails and messages sent by citizens. (Privacy, you say? Don’t be silly. We live in an age of terrorism. Hehe, those naive libertarian notions.)
However it discovers it is unable to decrypt the ones sent by Blackberry devices.
Pissed, it asks the parent company, RIM, to help it snoop. Hard luck, says RIM, [...]
Posted in libertarianism, tagged advance directive, death, euthanasia, incapacitated, involuntary commitment, involuntary treatment, liberty, living will, mental capacity act, right to die, treatment on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I think this is a great idea.
If I hadn’t just escaped that dreadful accident, where would I be now? Would I rather be dead than depend on others to keep me alive?
A new card seeks to address that very question. Available in pubs, banks, libraries, GP surgeries, even some churches, the Advanced Decision to Refuse [...]
Posted in libertarianism, people, politics, tagged article, campaign, election 2008, liberty, n y times, ron paul, supporters on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A nice article in the New York Times on Ron Paul and his passionate supporters.
Mr. Paul was supposed to be a memory by now. But in the Oregon primary last week, he won 15 percent of the vote, and the campaign appears to be growing into something beyond a conventional protest campaign. Some supporters have [...]
Posted in quote for the week, travel and getaways, tagged city, destination, e b white, greatness, immigrants, new york, new york city, ny, quote, search, settlers, white on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter–the city that is devoured by locusts each day [...]
Posted in libertarianism, people, tagged ideology, interview, libertarian, matt stone, reason, reason magazine, south park, television on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An excerpt from an interview of South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker by Reason Magazine.
Reason: Each of you at various points have called yourself libertarian. Is that an apt description?
Parker: People started throwing that word around to describe us right around the second or third season. They would sit us down and go, [...]
Posted in libertarianism, miscellaneous, tagged awards, journalism, libertarianism, magazine, nominations, reason on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Reason has hauled in 16 nominations for the annual Greater Southern California Press Club Awards. They dominated the magazine category, earning 10 of the 20 finalist spots.
For those who are unaware, Reason is a monthly libertarian magazine, probably the best libertarian magazine that exists.
Posted in libertarianism, tagged brothel, countries, crime, laws, legal, offence, prostitution, sex, sex work, sex workers on May 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What does Ethiopia, Senegal and Turkey have that the US doesn’t?
The right to engage in consensual sex for money.
For a list of the legal status of prostitution in different countries, check this nice fact sheet. The oldest profession in the world is legal in most of South America, and virtually all of Europe. Keeping the US company, [...]
Posted in libertarianism, tagged cartoonist, cartoons, dutch, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, islam, legalization, liberty, netherlands on May 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Dutch got it once. So they legalized abortion, prostitution, soft drugs and euthanasia and guaranteed absolute free speech. But isn’t there an old proverb about not seeing the value of things you’ve had for a long while? It seems the famously easy-going Dutch are tired of their freedoms. What else to make of the ban on magic mushrooms, and now the arrest [...]
Posted in politics, tagged economics, farm bill, fiscal, laws, mccain, obama, pandering, spending, subsidy, welch on May 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The current farm bill is a monstrosity. It is a grotesque example of ill-directed subsidy and government profligacy at a time when the US is deep in debt and prices are going up. Only one of the three presidential candidates has come out in opposition to the bill and that person is John McCain. Even [...]
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