Colour me weird..

..but I feel happier about the death penalty being awarded to these guys that I have for any other case I can remember. There are people whose crimes have led to far greater destruction and death. Terrorists, mass murderers, genocidal dictators. But there is something particularly chilling about a group of men hunting down and [...]

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Silly lawsuit of the day

The widow of the IRS worker who was killed by Joe’s Stack’s horrific plane-crashing act is suing Stack’s widow for ‘negligence’. Valerie Hunter, the wife of Vernon Hunter, is accusing Sheryl Stack, wife of Andrew Joseph “Joe” Stack III, of negligence, alleging she she knew or should have known that her husband was a threat [...]

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The failed airline bombing and our reaction

The reaction of the TSA — the umbrella organization formed after 9/11 to regulate airline security in the US — to the recent terrorist attempt has been along expected lines. More lines, more meaningless regulations, more stifling security measures. When Richard Reid had the bright idea a few years ago to hide explosives in his [...]

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How to treat your women

This is probably the best article that I have read so far on the Woods affair. Whether you choose to have one partner or many, it is crucial that you invest in their emotional well-being if you care for your own. And try to be as honest as possible. Not just for their sakes, but [...]

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Kindle and existential crises

Gotta love xkcd!

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“And then they came for me”

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

“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

 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

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 [...]

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Peter Schiff: “Stimulus will lead to unmitigated disaster”

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

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

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Cry baby photo

Sometimes, I just love Tyler Cowen.

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Georgia sex offender law

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 [...]

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The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs

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 [...]

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No puffing in Aurora

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 [...]

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