Author: James K

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...

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...

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...

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.

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....

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...

A Game of Thrones themed Valentine’s Day cards.

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...

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...

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...

I thought I’d share with you my Christmas present to myself.

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...

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...

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...

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...