Cold Fusionism
So, you know how my blognado was supposed to get my juices flowing again? Yeah, well so much for that plan. I can plead all manner of excuses: I’ve started a new project at work that’s tapping my...
Author: James K
Sunday Blognado: Metablognado!
Today I want to do a round-up of my blognado experience. First, allow me to explain the origin of the name. There was a short-lived TV series called The Middleman. It was perhaps the geekiest show...
Saturday Blognado: Taxes and Welfare
This post is something of a coda to my Tuesday post on taxes, this time taken from the other direction. The most common objection to welfare system is that it discourages work, leading to protracted welfare dependency. This can...
Friday Blognado: The downward spiral
Today marks the end of blognado proper. While I do hope to put up a post on Saturday and Sunday, they will be much shorter than my customary door-stopper length as I will be otherwise engaged for...
Thursday Blognado: Wargaming
My Thursday Blognado post is a guest post at Mindless Diversions wherein I explain why I abandoned miniature wargames produced by Games Workshop, and why Warmachine is my favourite wargame.
Wednesday Blognado: Talk is cheap, except when it’s very expensive
When I was drawing up topics for blognado I item on my list was political speech and campaign finance, so when I saw that Elias and Dan post, I decided it was fate, or whatever equivalent we soulless materialists believe in....
Tuesday Blognado: The taxing question of … tax
Day 2 of Blognado is upon us (or upon me anyway, I’m never sure where your day boundaries are relative to mine), so to keep people interested I thought I’d discuss something light and easily relocatable like the intricacies of...
Monday Blognado: Does Size Matter?
Welcome to the first day of Blognado – an experiment where I try to shake myself out of my blogging drought (admittedly I’ve never been all that prolific, but still I’d like to try...
The Burden of Proof
In the recent thread on Huntsman , BlaiseP, Tom van Dyke and I ended up in a bit of a digression of atheism and the burden of proof which I thought was worth teasing...
A Third Kind of Green Libertarians Should Care About
The environment is a tricky issue for libertarianism, in many ways environmental issues are “ideologically inconvenient” for libertarians – life would be easier if they didn’t exist. Of course that’s not sufficient reason to...
Season’s Greetings – Government Style
I wonder if I might crave your momentary indulgence in order to discharge a by no means disagreeable obligation which has, over the years, become more or less established practice in government service as...
Opposite Day: The fallacy of separation of powers
Since I’m the member of the League who is furthest ahead in the time zones, it falls to me to welcome you to the League of Ordinary Gentlemen’s inaugural opposite day, in which we...
A Thanksgiving prayer for an Atheist
Dear Global Economy, we thank thee for thy economies of scale, thy professional specialization, and thy international networks of trade under Ricardo’s Law of Comparative Advantage, without which we would all starve to death...
What do you mean “What does it all mean”?
Just to mix things up a little I thought I’d take a look at something a little different – the meaning of life. Well, we all know it’s 42, but a can’t write a...
A kiwi looks at the US top 1%
The ever-interesting Matt Nolan looks at the income of the Us top 1% and suggests some of the change may have been income reporting after tax changes in 1986. Perhaps Reagan was to blame...
It’s an investment, it’s a comsumer good, it’s a salad dressing…
I’ve been reading with interest the recent back and forth about university education (particularly education in the arts), and whether or not it’s a consumption good, an investment in your future and whether possession...
Experiments in drink-driving ads
I don’t know if the humour will translate well, but I found this ad against drink-driving produced by Transport New Zealand utterly hilarious.
Health is the War of the State
Healthcare is a political football in every Western country to some extent. In countries with extensive government healthcare the debate is about what the government should pay for, in the US it’s about whether...
