Monthly Archives: August 2009

Bits & Pieces

Stuff: -Felipe Calderon finally found his machismo & decriminalized personal narcotics use in Mexico. -Some people actually DO handle business with handshakes instead of lawyers and paperwork, like the old cliche about deal-making in the South.  One problem: those people … Continue reading

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Technology is wonderful, ain't it?

Pirate Bay got bought out.  So, naturally, their entire site code including torrents up to this point gets torrented, with a copy of their web interface put up elsewhere.

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Challenge!!

I don’t recall having seen or heard a critique by a statist-liberal specifically of left-libertarianism.  There’s been plenty of criticisms of Ron Paul style constitutionalism, Objectivism, and Cato-style corporatist denialism, but I simply cannot remember one directed at left-libertarianism. So…any … Continue reading

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Let's update that old line

In practice, “representative government” is a flock of sheep holding a vote to decide which wolf to entrust with deciding what’s for dinner.  Inevitably, the wolf decides to eat one of the sheep. The sheep react to this in various … Continue reading

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Definition Fail

Outside of the VFW’s national convention — where Obama promoted our continued, ever increasing forced tithe to the Church of the Rain of Death* — some people gathered to bicker about health-care “reform” again.  A former soldier among them decided … Continue reading

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If-Then

If this counts as “support” to consumers, as the headline describes it…: Consumers, the cornerstone of U.S. economic activity, are still in disarray, data and central bank measures signaled on Monday, as households struggle amid the worst recession since the … Continue reading

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Is it any wonder the media is a bunch of suckups?

Don Lemon, on CNN a moment ago: “What’s this about not trusting the government?  I trust my elected officials!  If I didn’t then I’d vote them out!” Since you’re so hip an’ all, what with your Twitter account, I’m sure … Continue reading

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What they think (IMO) again

Since it’s a popular topic, I recently remembered having given a charitable description of “conservatism” before, & I’ve agreed with the idea of a split between modern liberalism & progressivism, here’s what I gather mainstream liberals believe: “True freedom is … Continue reading

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Festivus comes early this year

Re: those “town halls”: The entertainment value has given me the occassional chuckle, I’ll admit. These things are, and always have been, meaningless anyway, empty hand-waving in the general direction of the inherently unattainable beyond the smallest scale ideal of … Continue reading

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Business as Usual We Can Believe In

Somebody notify Politifact about this one: Federal authorities and local police agencies today raided two Westside marijuana dispensaries as well as the residence of the owners. The raids occurred at a facility on Washington Boulevard in Culver City and on … Continue reading

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