Monthly Archive: December 2010

… and a friendly reminder that the U.S. government targets and kills journalists, just as the Russian government does, and even consulted with Blair on killing a great deal more of them. Who says...

I’m not in the mood to write about today’s Big Story right now (a federal District Judge ruled the individual mandate portion of the health care reform bill unconstitutional for those of you living...

Not that the expectations were high, but it’s been a pretty miserable season (to say nothing of the decade) for Bills fans.  But knowing that it’s likely that a truly magnificent hit by our...

I love the variety of niches found in free markets, except when I don’t. A professorial friend recently had the not terribly uncommon experience of having a student submit a paper electronically, only to...

Sam Frank’s account of an experience with a Russian online dating service ends up touching on one of Barrett Brown’s interests, but to say any more would ruin the effect of a rather touching...

I have an issue with the death penalty on government incompetence grounds. But when there is no doubt that someone has done something like this, I’d like to see a system where we not...

Economist Steve Horwitz kindly pointed to a great little article of his on futurism. I can’t find a thing in it with which I disagree. He writes: But even there it took years for...

Over the last few days I have been trying to make the case for Wikileaks, Anonymous, civil disobedience, and the primacy of conscience over nationalism. This effort has met with mixed results. I’m honestly surprised...

The last few hundred years have seen dramatic advances in scientific and technological developments. Yet, when we imagine a future 30 plus years away, we tend to “see” scientific advances arriving prematurely. Folks in...

I like them better with Boz Scaggs than Toto (though the latter has its moments; Steve Lukather is a smokin’ guitarist).

I suppose I’ve been noticeable by my general absence on the Wikileaks brouhaha over the last week.  Much of that has had to do with real life priorities, but some of it has simply...

This makes me incredibly happy.

2000 (UN International Year for Declaring Peace Is Better Than War) – Stunned by the near collapse of civilization caused by the Y2K disaster, the dot.com bubble bursts, as millions of investors lose billions...

A number of people have been linking to the following essay over the past couple of days, which provides additional information on Anonymous as well as an examination of what the organization  represents if...