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Kindle and existential crises

Posted in news and links, tagged , , , on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Gotta love xkcd!

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“And then they came for me”

Posted in news and links, people, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This is probably familiar to anyone who has been following the civil war — now declared over by the government — in Sri Lanka, but I missed it till today. It is an oped by Lasantha Wickramatunge, former editor of the Sunday Leader newspaper of Sri Lanka. It was published posthumously and is a chilling piece [...]

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Liberty and love in Iraq

Posted in news and links, tagged , , on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

“I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation’s interests.”
“I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.”
Freedom. This is how it smells.

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Assorted links

Posted in news and links, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

 While GM and Chrysler are in their last throes, Ford is trudging on. Obama may have fired GM’s CEO and told Chrysler exactly what to do but he has had no such luck controlling Ford. The company has refused offers of taxpayer life support and believes it can not only survive this recession but in [...]

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Go, suck an egg

Posted in news and links, tagged , , , on March 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »

From a West Virginia legislator comes this bizarre proposal of banning Barbie dolls because they send the wrong message to young girls etc.
I think the Kardashian sisters’ response is the best. From the Fox story:

“He can suck an egg, seriously. He’s probably butt-ugly and always wanted a girlfriend that looked like Barbie but could never [...]

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Peter Schiff: “Stimulus will lead to unmitigated disaster”

Posted in news and links, tagged , , , , , , , on February 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I present below, without comment, a recent interview of Schiff (investor, Austrian economist, accurate predictor of the current crisis) where he talks about the economic crisis and the stimulus. He predicts hyper-inflation worse than anything we have ever seen if we keep going down this path.

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Dating a Banker Anonymous

Posted in news and links, tagged , , , , , , on January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Having a Wall Street boyfriend isn’t as attractive when there is a financial crisis.

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Cry baby photo

Posted in news and links, tagged , , on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Sometimes, I just love Tyler Cowen.

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Georgia sex offender law

Posted in news and links, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 4, 2009 | 6 Comments »

A new Georgia law requires anyone convicted of a sex offence in the past to hand over all their user-names and passwords to the government.
Mind you, this law isn’t aimed only at child rapists and suchlike. It will cover everyone who has ever been convicted of a sex related offence. In essence, what this law [...]

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The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs

Posted in news and links, people, tagged , , , , , , on December 21, 2008 | 11 Comments »

The bizarre story of three young serial killers who tortured and killed 21 people and took live videos of their gruesome murders on cellphone camera. They did it as a ‘hobby’, so that they could have interesting memories when they grew old.
The thee youths dubbed themselves The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs.
By all accounts, each victim came about [...]

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No puffing in Aurora

Posted in libertarianism, news and links, tagged , , , , , , on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Even a blogger as jaded as me comes across an instance of nanny-statism once in a while that takes his breath away.
Police in Aurora and around the metro area are cracking down on unattended and running vehicles, which police call “puffers,” this week.
“The easiest cars to steal are those left running unattended in the cold [...]

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Schneier on the Mumbai attack

Posted in news and links, tagged , , , on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Security guru Bruce Schneier writes:
Specific countermeasures don’t help against these attacks. None of the high-priced countermeasures that defend against specific tactics and specific targets made, or would have made, any difference: photo ID checks, confiscating liquids at airports, fingerprinting foreigners at the border, bag screening on public transportation, anything. Even metal detectors and threat warnings [...]

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“A childish piece of theater”

Posted in news and links, tagged , , , , , on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A professor at UC Irvine refuses to take sexual harassment sensitivity classes. Here’s why:
First of all, I believe the training is a disgraceful sham. As far as I can tell from my colleagues, it is worthless, a childish piece of theater, an insult to anyone with a respectable IQ, primarily designed to relieve the university [...]

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Political correctness is degenerating into farce

Posted in news and links, tagged , , , on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

… says Quirky Indian.
I agree.

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Ike stories

Posted in news and links, people, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on September 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

County sheriff sitting on an ATV tries to warn young, fit, surfers out of the water, but the surfers wind up rescuing the deputy. OMG, this is so funny!
This video makes me angry. Some idiots decided to drink merrily on the seafront while the hurricane approached and later had to call 911 to be rescued. [...]

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