May’s Embarrassment of Riches – A Books & Reading Open Thread
For the past few months I have been bitching to friends and family that I can’t find anything good to read. So I am really looking forward to the next four weeks. May 2012...
Monthly Archive: April 2012
Constitutional Authority Statements
I was getting ready to write something about the new Social Networking Online Protection Act (SNOPA for short – couldn’t get another O in there, guys?), and its intersection with the free market, libertarianism...
A Question for Techies, Engineers and the Libertarian-Leaning
Reading an old “office war story” by Wardsmith over the weekend, it struck me that most of the libertarian leaning people I know in my fleshbot life work as engineers, programmers, or in some...
Wiring the Wonky Left’s Moral Compass
Thanks in no small part to Andrew Sullivan and Rod Dreher, my post last week on the “Wonky” American Left has generated some interesting discussion. Given that I’ve been unsuccessfully pushing this argument for...
Making a Living in the Wake of the Pelican Disaster Redux
I’ve got a re-write of the “Making a Living…” post originally published here at the OG over at Megan’s place. In this case I’ve taken the ending in a different direction, focusing more on...
Sandefur: Voting for Obama
A bit of a surprise, but his reasons are solid. Particularly on dividing the government and on judicial appointments. I’m still undecided, but the leading contenders are Gary Johnson and “don’t vote, it just...
MON TIKI project update, 4/28/12
This weeks we got the hulls up on dollies, the beams up on the hulls and me up on the beams. It was an exiting week!
A Libertarian, a Socialist, and a Rich, Privileged White Dude Walk into a Bar
I’ve got a new post up at Megan’s place: A Libertarian, a Socialist, and a Rich, Privileged White Dude Walk into a Bar Leaguesters will recognize some themes.
Corporate Hierarchy, Job Security, and Political Identity
My first job in a real sales capacity was in the employ of a behemoth Fortune 500 company. Of all the companies with whom I have ever had a professional association of any kind,...
248 Small Government Party Members Vote “Yea” on CISPA
(Edited to add) Erik and I crossed the streams. From there: One important thing to glean from this, especially when held up in contrast with the defeat of SOPA and PIPA, two bills aimed...
An Andy Rooney Moment
Why is it that I need to create a not-less-than-twelve-character username, consisting of at least one capital letter, at least one lowercase letter, at least one punctuation symbol, and at least one number, and...
First Quarter 2012 GDP At 2.2%
News on the economy today and it’s looking increasingly like the happy surprises which characterized the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012 were aberrations.
More on Medical Marijuana
The Nick Diaz saga, which I first wrote about here, continues: He was placed under temporary suspension when a post-fight drug test revealed the presence of marijuana metabolites in his system.
Friday Jukebox
Bob. A guitar. 1970-ish. Hanging out in a hotel room.* Nothing else. No one else.** ‘Nuff said. Sometimes less is more. *IIRC. **Well, except for the guy doing the recording.
Why Are These Two Things Different?
At Rortybomb (which has migrated to Next New Deal), Mike Konczal takes arguments against lower rates on student loans to task. My only question is this: Are taxes owed to the U.S. government a kind...
Forget About Undecided Voters
Credit where it’s due — this, from the Weekly Standard‘s Jay Cost, is on-the-money: I would say that 90 percent of the vote is pretty well set. And this is the biggest reason that I...
Debt and Career Choices
The President wants to keep student loans cheap. Because I believe in higher education with all of my heart and soul, it would seem natural for me to support this proposal. As the parent...
13.1
See that fellow over there? He’s running a half marathon. He’s probably in a world of pain. Possibly, though, he’s running laps around heaven itself. It’s 6:10AM, last Saturday. It helps that I’m a...
Apropos of nothing, a little self-congratulatory group hug…
UPDATE: My bad! I misread the reader. We’re just about to go over 3.9 million; we won’t hit 4 million for another couple of weeks. I’d say suggest some sort of Kismet about hitting...
