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Kindle and existential crises
Posted in news and links, tagged collection, existentialism, kindle, xkcd on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“And then they came for me”
Posted in news and links, people, tagged civil liberties, courage, death, editor, journalism, Lasantha Wickramatunge, ltte, sri lanka, terrorism, war 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 [...]
Liberty and love in Iraq
Posted in news and links, tagged gays, homosexuality, iraq 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.
Assorted links
Posted in news and links, tagged auto, conficker, economics, internet, links, marijuana, nanny-state, obama, paternalism, worm 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 [...]
Peter Schiff: “Stimulus will lead to unmitigated disaster”
Posted in news and links, tagged austrian economics, crisis, depression, economics, inflation, peter schiff, recession, stimulus 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.
Dating a Banker Anonymous
Posted in news and links, tagged banker, boyfriend, economy, financial crisis, funny, girlfriend, relationships on January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Having a Wall Street boyfriend isn’t as attractive when there is a financial crisis.
Cry baby photo
Posted in news and links, tagged banks, nationalization, tyler cowen on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes, I just love Tyler Cowen.
Georgia sex offender law
Posted in news and links, tagged civil liberties, crime, freedom, georgia, internet, justice, laws, password, privacy, rights, sex offender 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 [...]
The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs
Posted in news and links, people, tagged horror, killing, murder, serial killer, torture, ukraine, video 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 [...]
No puffing in Aurora
Posted in libertarianism, news and links, tagged cars, freedom, nanny-state, paternalism, puffers, theft, victimless crimes 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 [...]
Schneier on the Mumbai attack
Posted in news and links, tagged bruce schneier, mumbai, security, terrorism 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 [...]
“A childish piece of theater”
Posted in news and links, tagged coercion, political correctness, professor, sensitivity, sexual harassment, uc irvine 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 [...]
Political correctness is degenerating into farce
Posted in news and links, tagged freedom of expression, offended feelings, political correctness, words on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
… says Quirky Indian.
I agree.
Ike stories
Posted in news and links, people, tagged evacuation, foolish, hurricane, ike, nanny-state, nature, personal responsibility, rescue, sheriff, storm, surfer, surge 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. [...]

