Back in June of 2010, SayUncle and I got into it a little bit over a study purporting to show that liberals are Teh Suck at basic economics while libertarians and conservatives are Teh Smart. I alleged that the questions were biased in a way that made liberals in particular more likely to do poorly; [...]
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How Would Uncle Like His Crow
Posted in Bloggin, Economics, Politics on November 10, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Time For A Judd Update
Posted in Bloggin, Flame Bait, Hopey-Changey, Politics on August 11, 2011 | Comments Off
Way back in December of 2009, commenter Judd wrote: … I have always and still continue to believe Barack Obama will be a one-term president, unless of course the Republicans go full-retard and Huck things up again. My guess is that you’re very happy you put that “unless” in there. What say you?
Don’t Be A Dick
Posted in Bloggin, Flame Bait on August 10, 2011 | 22 Comments »
Hey, remember a little over five years ago, when I wrote this piece, taking issue with KTK‘s argumentative style? Or how about this one, about four years ago? Or here, two and a half years ago, when I did the very thing I complained about KTK doing? (There’s another one out there somewhere, where Digglahhh [...]
Most of You Are Literally Morons*
Posted in Bloggin, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, News & Current Events, Politics, Science, Things That Suck, Uncategorized on July 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
An observation: I was startled to notice how often I qualify factual statements with the word “literally” (see my previous post). I don’t use it the mindless way many people do (my recent favorite: a co-worker who arrived at the office complaining about being delayed by a subway slowdown that “literally took forever!” – but [...]
LarryE Speak!
Posted in Bloggin, Media on June 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
You listen!
Where The Hell Have We Been?
Posted in Bloggin, Libertarian Problem Solving on December 3, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Now that KTK has emerged from his lurking (albeit very briefly), I suppose it’s my turn. I can’t speak for the Kevins, but my normal blogging time has been spent (wasted) arguing on-line with anarcho-capitalists (henceforth: AC nutjobs), which anyone who has tried it can tell you will pretty much sap your intelligence, faith in [...]
A Unified Theory of Libertarians
Posted in Bloggin, Libertarian Problem Solving, Politics, Smackdown! on November 15, 2010 | 11 Comments »
So I was having an e-mail exchange with an acquaintance of mine about another (mutual) acquaintance who is pretty far out in anarcho-capitalist loonyville. And Sane Acquaintance came up with this theory regarding Anarcho-Capitalist Loony Acquaintance [ACLA], which I thought was brilliant: Where to start? Here’s my theory: I think [ACLA] got all weird once [...]
Fun Game!
Posted in Bloggin on November 3, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Name that racist wingnut (click for full-size image): Side note: I still have that magazine because they also published an embarrassingly bad nostalgia piece by yours truly.
Dear Libertarians: Stop BSing Yourselves
Posted in Bloggin, Libertarian Problem Solving on October 8, 2010 | Comments Off
There seems to be a real rush to indulge in “no true Scottsman libertarian” nonsense around the TN fire contracts mentioned in this post. The comments and some pingbacks are full of people insisting that, no, the honoring of the terms of a contract between a citizen and firefighters aren’t really representative of real libertarians [...]
Hey, look. A blogroll!
Posted in Bloggin on October 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
And a completely new theme. Add your complaints, links that should be on the roll, and effusive and monetary praise here. But don’t complain about the picture. I like the picture. Impressionism, b*tches!