Jason, I wrote a little bit about this here. A lot of folks seemed to think that it doesn't count as deregulation but I disagree. Some more on that, here. I would certainly appreciate your feedback on that second link.
@Michael Drew, Dude, it's not about patting myself on the back. I'm basically saying look you can't call every position that doesn't fit nicely into an ideological corner "high Broderism". That's a cop-out. Sure, much of the time it's 'us' vs 'them' but how much of that is just a game we're supposed to play because the powers that be want us to continue down that path? I don't know man. I just don't see that as very productive.
And I guess you missed a bunch of my writing lately that basically boiled down to "I don't know if I can keep calling myself a conservative." Like this
@Dave Schuler, So then what do we stimulate? Let's say we leave the real estate market to its fate (and all that entails, construction, etc.). Where do stimulus dollars go - other than to state and local governments - where they might have a really stimulative effect?
Regarding hippies - look, I've known enough hippies and have gone through my own hippie phase so I'm mostly being snarky. This girl in the post was seriously decked out, uber-bohemian, on-the-road style hippie and then she busts out the iPhone, and there's just something so distinctly anti-bohemian about a device you have to pay close to a hundred dollars a month for. It was such a stark contrast to the rest of her. And besides, I would expect hippies to be into slightly more open technology than the super closed Apple platform. I don't know. It was mostly a reaction to the contrast of the slick technology and materialism with the knapsack toting hippie girl that I found remarkable. If it had been just any old cell phone I wouldn't have though twice - or if she had been just your standard hippie and not quite so over the top. (We have tons of hippies here, plenty have phones, few I've seen like this.)
Besides that, my point isn't whether hippies were great lovers of technology - it was that if we had had so many wonderfully distracting gadgets into 1960, the hippie movement may never have materialized in the first place. Kids who would later become hippies might have just gotten lost in their video games. I think that's an interesting observation. Can counter-cultures really exist in an age of endless entertainment? Sort of Brave New World-ish.
@62across, I think you're missing the point. Millman is saying that the Obama admin benefited from firing Sherrod; I'm saying that the Obama admin is the real bad guy for doing that. The two are connected statements.
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On “Rumors of liberaltarianism’s death are greatly exaggerated”
@Michael Drew, I'm serious when I say more later. Give me some time to answer these points properly. I will.
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@Michael Drew, I think you're being overly literal. More later.
On “Beer Blogging: Prohibition, Regulation, Homebrew”
Jason, I wrote a little bit about this here. A lot of folks seemed to think that it doesn't count as deregulation but I disagree. Some more on that, here. I would certainly appreciate your feedback on that second link.
On ““The Apostate””
@Rufus, Win!
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@Will, Heh.
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@Jaybird, How about all three?
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@Robert Cheeks, Thanks Bob!
On “The Anti-Broder Center Redux”
@Michael Drew, Dude, it's not about patting myself on the back. I'm basically saying look you can't call every position that doesn't fit nicely into an ideological corner "high Broderism". That's a cop-out. Sure, much of the time it's 'us' vs 'them' but how much of that is just a game we're supposed to play because the powers that be want us to continue down that path? I don't know man. I just don't see that as very productive.
And I guess you missed a bunch of my writing lately that basically boiled down to "I don't know if I can keep calling myself a conservative." Like this
On ““The Apostate””
Thanks y'all. I'm certainly no right-winger. So it's pretty funny to be on the list. But it's cool. Whatever works!
On “In the lake of the woods”
@Mr. Prosser, Thanks!
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@Eagle Driver, Thanks very much, Eagle. I appreciate it.
On “Lies My Cookbook Told Me”
This is why I just wing everything.
On “In the lake of the woods”
@Ta-Nehisi Coates, I appreciate that, Ta-Nehisi. Thanks!
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@dexter45, I haven't read that one yet. Thanks!
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@silentbeep, Thanks!
On “On free markets”
@Bob, I'm just not sure how you'd prefer to speak about it then. Non-intervention into market economies. Hands-off economics?
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@Jason Kuznicki, Hayek's cool with me.
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@TGGP, Not really, actually.
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@silentbeep, Thanks!
On “The stimulus effect”
@Dave Schuler, So then what do we stimulate? Let's say we leave the real estate market to its fate (and all that entails, construction, etc.). Where do stimulus dollars go - other than to state and local governments - where they might have a really stimulative effect?
On “Hippies with iPhones”
Regarding hippies - look, I've known enough hippies and have gone through my own hippie phase so I'm mostly being snarky. This girl in the post was seriously decked out, uber-bohemian, on-the-road style hippie and then she busts out the iPhone, and there's just something so distinctly anti-bohemian about a device you have to pay close to a hundred dollars a month for. It was such a stark contrast to the rest of her. And besides, I would expect hippies to be into slightly more open technology than the super closed Apple platform. I don't know. It was mostly a reaction to the contrast of the slick technology and materialism with the knapsack toting hippie girl that I found remarkable. If it had been just any old cell phone I wouldn't have though twice - or if she had been just your standard hippie and not quite so over the top. (We have tons of hippies here, plenty have phones, few I've seen like this.)
Besides that, my point isn't whether hippies were great lovers of technology - it was that if we had had so many wonderfully distracting gadgets into 1960, the hippie movement may never have materialized in the first place. Kids who would later become hippies might have just gotten lost in their video games. I think that's an interesting observation. Can counter-cultures really exist in an age of endless entertainment? Sort of Brave New World-ish.
On “On free markets”
@gregiank, Totally. And the BJ's are coming around. Takes time, and I haven't been exactly all that great in communicating either.
On “Suicide Mission”
Thanks y'all. Sorry it's taken so long to say that - a little swamped these days...
On “Consider Phlebas”
@Winterpool, Exactly, though Brad is right that the opener is pretty gruesome as well.
On “Loyalty and the Shirley Sherrod affair”
@62across, I think you're missing the point. Millman is saying that the Obama admin benefited from firing Sherrod; I'm saying that the Obama admin is the real bad guy for doing that. The two are connected statements.
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