Day: July 19, 2011

“The Harrow and the Harvest”: Dylan in the Doorway Cryin’ IFRL-TLC-Religion-19258956972_a2e1ee01a8_o

“The Harrow and the Harvest”: Dylan in the Doorway Cryin’

J.L. Wall July 19, 2011

(I’m going to take a page out of William Brafford’s book and write about Gillian Welch’s The...

Is what we have here a failure to communicate? IFRL-NaPP-Asia-Yoshitoshi-Raiko

Is what we have here a failure to communicate?

Elias Isquith July 19, 2011

Is it wrong to say that the subtext of this entire genre of intra-leftist debate is support...

It’s Only a Positive Externality if the Government Does It IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-vangogh.montmartre-mills-and-vegetable-gardens-2

It’s Only a Positive Externality if the Government Does It

Jason Kuznicki July 19, 2011

A positive externality happens when the “good” of a product or service can’t be contained to the...

Bad prices, public spending, and poverty IFRL-TLC-War-josh-rocklage-556860-unsplash

Bad prices, public spending, and poverty

Erik Kain July 19, 2011

Matt Yglesias points to this Heritage report that suggests the living standards of the poor have gotten...

Liberaltarianism and mutual improvement

Liberaltarianism and mutual improvement

James K July 19, 2011

In my last post I made something of a throwaway comment that liberal and libertarians had a...

InMD in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025One never wants to predict an outcome but I would think chances are high he gets it. Message being s…
Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Luigi Mangione has been indicted with something or other that makes him eligible for the death penal…
Saul Degraw in reply to Burt Likko on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025In response to the 4th Circuit, Pam Bondi promoted Garcia to being an MS13 gang leader. They have un…
CJColucci in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I was there. They weren't.
Jaybird in reply to KenB on From Marginal Revolution: o3 and AGI, is April 16th AGI day?Back in 2023, I failed the Turing Test for a few minutes before figuring out that it was just auto-c…
KenB in reply to Jaybird on From Marginal Revolution: o3 and AGI, is April 16th AGI day?Yeah it’s not well defined enough for me to even worry about - I just continue to be amazed and a li…
Jaybird in reply to CJColucci on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Okay, Boomer. I'm sure that things were awesome when you were a kid. That's one of the things people…
CJColucci in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025That would depend on what you told us about what you experienced. I wouldn't dream of telling you "t…
Jaybird in reply to CJColucci on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Oh, I thought it was building up to some variant of "that wasn't a big deal and you're silly for thi…
CJColucci in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Because I thought, silly me, that having brought your experiences into the discussion you might want…