Or, at least, for capitalists.
And maybe the progenitor of this fine album…
;-)
(via Drawn. I may post some other fave covers later)
Monthly Archives: March 2005
Soundtracks for Anarcho-capitalists
March 29, 2005 – 2:21 am
The (Platonic) Ideal Tax Rate
March 28, 2005 – 11:40 pm
Joe Klein in TIME magazine:
California’s perpetual fiscal crisis is unique—a consequence of the state’s artificially low property taxes, cemented in place by the infamous Proposition 13 passed in 1978—but most states are now being squeezed as the Federal Government cuts spending on everything from cops to Medicaid.
(emphasis added)
Oh, you selfish voters of California, who decline [...]
If only
March 25, 2005 – 3:57 pm
from an email exchange:
jmd [regarding building a telescope]: The cardboard tube could be used to launch rockets, in case of revolution… ;-)
dff: Speaking of the revolution, when it comes I’m cutting [someone's] fingers off.
jmd: I just wish we could send them off to live in the world they want to create - that would [...]
You’d think reading comprehension would be required of copyeditors
March 25, 2005 – 2:56 pm
In a thread entitled “legal opinion Renaming decision Reeds Brook”, where in a prior post there was a legal opinion of Town Counsel Maher saying that the by-law about requesting the advice of the Public Memorial Committee was not being followed in recent namings, the following was said by someone:
Well, if everyone’s ignoring the by-laws [...]
In case you missed it
March 21, 2005 – 3:45 pm
Charter opponents sink to new low.
It may be a new low for charter opponents, but it’s not a new low for the unassuming Paul Schlichtman.
Town without pity, redux
March 19, 2005 – 10:37 pm
For those who missed it (er, back in January), Sprague takes a pounding in the comments of this LFA article. The whole thing is a hoot.
There may be hope for this town yet.
Learn from the Masters
March 19, 2005 – 1:59 pm
Their Liquored-up Flowershow Technique is unstoppable!
More bias
March 19, 2005 – 1:46 pm
NZC sees unconscious bias at NPR. The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Goldberg, in an article about Democrats who want to look tough, writes:
His run for the 1988 Democratic Presidential nomination came to a sudden end when he was accused of borrowing, without attribution, from a television commercial by the former British Labour Party leader Neil [...]
Looks like campaign finance “reform” was leftie astroturfing
March 17, 2005 – 10:27 pm
See:
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/22480.htm
and
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/transcript0.htm
The reason I stayed in the house all day
March 16, 2005 – 4:31 pm
This is great.
…and also this, and this. No, wait - actually, the whole site is great.
(via Drawn)
Fun with GWOT acronyms
March 16, 2005 – 2:59 pm
I can’t believe there’s a terrorist group called MILF.
Arab Totalitarian Movement, anyone?
What half a Large Hadron Collider gets you
March 16, 2005 – 1:45 pm
Check out the “Kyoto count-up” feature in the sidebar at Luboš Motl’s physics blog. Excellent!
Another reason to not let your kids go to Harvard, Part 2
March 15, 2005 – 10:48 pm
Mossback Culture reports on a lynch mob just down the road a bit:
The politically correct faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard passed a surprise no-confidence vote against Larry Summers last night < ... > Dr. Matory, the motion’s author, is an interesting fellow. He’s a voodoo expert, member of the ethic studies department, adviser [...]
Another reason to not let your kids go to Harvard
March 14, 2005 – 5:54 pm
If you didn’t know Harvard was involved, you’d have to think this was an Onion editorial:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=506289
Millions now living will never die
March 14, 2005 – 4:16 pm
There’s been some gum-flapping lately here and here (there are multiple posts, so I’ll let you find ‘em if you care to - you’ve probably already read more of them than I bothered to) wrt transhumanism and the issues revolving around “human nature”. My take on human nature: who cares? I hate to resort to [...]
More Globe BS
March 11, 2005 – 5:31 pm
Interesting quote from the Globe ’s review of Gunner Palace:
They’re members of the Army’s 2/3 Field Artillery Division, and they’ve moved into the half-destroyed estate of Saddam Hussein’s assassinated son Uday, nicknaming it Gunner Palace.
Hmmmmm- If I remember correctly the two lovely Hussein brothers were shot and killed during a firefight with the US Army [...]
Arlington List Haikus
March 11, 2005 – 12:08 pm
A great idea from TJICistan. Although nothing can beat
Who took my [town] job?
It name webmaster. P.S.
I’ll find my town job.
here are my contributions:
Comcast? Verizon?
Here we go again, dammit.
Archives? What are they?
School has been cancelled
Who will care for my children?
My career suffers
You crawled from a hole
Selfish libertarian -
crawl back in that hole!
My driveway plowed in
And I [...]
GBS, Sachs and the Danegeld
March 10, 2005 – 5:36 pm
Over at LfDC, NZC cites a comment at Catallarchy, which, when I read between the lines a little, suggests that pulling yourself up by your bootstraps isn’t easy when you’ve fallen neck deep into mosquito-egg-ridden fetid swamp mud while on the run from the “owner” an Arab sold you to, you’ve had an arm or [...]
Microcosm for the rich and famous
March 10, 2005 – 4:35 pm
I’m pretty much at a loss over what to think:
.
(the whole thing is flash, so you’ll need first-world infrastructure to soak it up)
On one hand it seems pretty cool, but on the other, pretty cheesy. I guess it’s a better use of petrodollars than paying someone to stuff explosives in roadkill and lay in wait [...]