This is a fairly interesting discussion. More importantly, though, is what this says about me: Everyones favorite libertarian SF author, Vernor Vinge, makes the case for private ownership of nuclear weapons as an important bulwark of liberty in his short story, The Ungoverned (it can be found in his recent Collected Stories). I always thought [...]
Archive for March 8th, 2004
Libertarians and Personal Nuclear Weapons
Posted in Libertarian Problem Solving, Satire on March 8, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Water on Mars
Posted in Politics, Satire on March 8, 2004 | 1 Comment »
slacktivist: Water on Mars Our robotic inspectors on the surface, the rovers, have yet to find vast stockpiles of water, but keep in mind that Mars is a planet far larger than France and California combined. The rovers are also likely the victims of deception — the Martians could easily be moving the water to [...]
Libertarianism Explained
Posted in Politics on March 8, 2004 | 4 Comments »
I have been saying this forever — libertarianism is the communism of the right: they both sound good, until you spend about five minutes in the company of actual human beings. But I like the and a pony! formulation quite a bit, too: Richard A. Epstein: even in the libertarian utopia, some forms of state [...]
Capitalism at Work
Posted in Economics on March 8, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Apparently, as long as a CEO doesn’t kill anyone — on tape — they qualify for huge bonuses Bonuses totaling more than $10 million were paid out to five Kraft Foods Inc. executives at the end of 2003, even as the giant food maker made plans to lay off thousands of workers. In its annual [...]
The Light Dawns
Posted in Culture on March 8, 2004 | 1 Comment »
A conservative sees the light on gay marriage when it’s a personal friend being discriminated against. That’s a useful lesson.
Calpundit Makes the Big Time
Posted in Bloggin on March 8, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Looks like Kevin Drum is going to have a real job soon.
The Women of Afghanistan Have Not been Liberated
Posted in Politics on March 8, 2004 | 12 Comments »
Just a reminder that, despite all of the Bush Administration talk, the role of women in Afghanistan has not improved much Beside her, on the next bed, her mother-in-law, Bibi Khanum, and her brother-in-law, Abdul Muhammad, 18, confirm her account but deny her reason, which Madina would explain only outside on a terrace, away from [...]
Not Your Father's Democratic Party
Posted in Politics on March 8, 2004 | Comments Off
Kerry is doing his level best to redefine Bush’s only “strength” as a weakness “Why is this administration stonewalling and resisting the investigation into what happened and why we had the greatest security failure in the history of our country?” Kerry said at a hastily arranged news conference. “The American people deserve an answer now,” [...]
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