This raises more than a few questions in my mind:
We met as a teaching staff later that day. We saw the decimation of Lego-town as an opportunity to launch a critical evaluation of Legotown and the inequities of private ownership and hierarchical authority on which it was founded. Our intention was to promote a contrasting […]

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This is a very interesting paper explaining why people are susceptible to harmful memes like cults that would seem to be an evolutionary disadvantage. The author was recently released from jail for criticizing Scientology.
In the aggregate, memes constitute human culture. Most are useful. But a whole class of memes (cults, ideologies, etc.) have […]

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John Edwards on mandatory preventative medical care :
“It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care,” he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. “If you are going to be in the system, you can’t choose not to go to the doctor for 20 […]

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Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone’s labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.
- Robert Nozick

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What with Bush comparing the consequences of leaving Iraq to the aftermath in Southeast Asia after the US hung South Vietnam out to dry, Vietnam is a hot topic again. This article about how the military remembers Vietnam from the Atlantic truly is a must read, long but worthwhile.
It’s impossible to excerpt, but […]

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MotorTrend has a great round-up cataloging our environmental betters and their “do as I say, not as I do” lifestyles.

The thing is, while the hysterics are fretting about the “horrors” of global warming and the plight of poor little Knut, more than one million people (most of them women and children) are dying every single […]

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This is an interesting article about another unintended consequence of the welfare state.
In years past various blocks of our citizens would migrate from one corner of the country, where there was less prosperity, to areas offering more plentiful jobs. Certainly alien immigrants supplemented that flow of workers, but it wasn’t the only source of them. […]

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Played some ring games outside Saturday, then came in for a $20 rebuy hold’em tournament, and some more money games for the victims.
Won $35 outside, busted out in about 6th in the tournament, and won another $24 at dealer’s choice. Total +$39.

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When the internet allows freedom of speech to come into contact with honor based cultures, bad things can happen. Luckily, funny things can happen too.
In my opinion, the monks and the ninjas could both be defeated by a properly trained group of robot pirates, so the question is moot.

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