So I haven’t put up links in a while, but I hope to compensate somewhat here. Not all of these links will be Halloween related, but I’ll try to get as many in there as I can. Costume of the year goes to Hello Kitty Darth Vader. The four runners up are these. It is [...]
Archive for November, 2011
In the last year and a half, the federal government has extended billions of dollars to the banking sector to keep a number of banks from facing bankruptcy. This has been portrayed as an unprecedented act of government intervention in the economy, and in a number of ways it is. However, reading through Murray Rothbard’s [...]
By the Cato Institute’s David Boaz’s measure, more people now profess to loosely libertarian beliefs than have since Gallup has been measuring this sort of thing. Basically, 23% of the population right now believes both that the government is making decisions best left to individuals and businesses and that the government should not favor any [...]
This movie is a great success in the fact that it is as artistically successful as a major Hollywood interpretation of this book of ten sentences can be. It is visually stunning, but with Spike Jonze directing, that’s pretty much a given. It was also a given that the book’s plot of childhood escapism through [...]
Historian Thaddeus Russell points out that although Obama is being criticized from his left by antiwar activists, the president’s foreign policy is firmly within the “Progresive” tradition: What should be even more troubling to those who call themselves progressives but oppose the current wars: Obama’s motivations for pursuing them are rooted in the central tenet [...]
So it took nine months, but Obama finally did something that I fully approve of. Today (well, technically yesterday), Obama finally codified a new Justice Department policy to not use federal resources to arrest medical marijuana distributors and users in states where it is legal. From Time: “It will not be a priority to use [...]
Or: Why You Can’t Blame This All on Matt Holliday With all the division series over, I have gone two for four in my predictions–no better than random chance. But I really only care about being wrong in the case of the Saint Louis Cardinals, who were pathetically swept by the Dodgers on Saturday. Years [...]
This is how I want to be remembered when I’m gone…as an uneven pyramid of carbon. Video dating montages are always hilarious. Even when they’re being serious, Matt Stone and Trey Parker can write one funny fucking memo. I guarantee this blog will raise your productivity if you follow its advice. (Via MR.) Fake celebrity [...]
Let me add my voice to the growing chorus of those who are utterly confused and disgusted that Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. He is far from the first undeserving recipient. In fact he joins an elite group of American mass murderers that includes Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Henry Kissinger. However, [...]
The weather is turning colder, and the leaves are starting to change, which can only mean one thing: baseball playoffs. And I for one could not be happier with my beloved Cardinals back in the hunt for the first time since their 2006 world championship. As always, I’m here to tell you how I think [...]
