I picked up Penn Jillette’s new book God, No!, yesterday, and am already most of the way through it. It’s pitched as an atheist’s version of the “Ten Commandments”. (This apparently was prompted by an exchange Penn had with Glenn Beck that resulted in Penn dashing off his own version of the Ten Commandments and [...]
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Hell, No
Posted in Agnostic Reads the Bible, Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Humor, Libertarian Problem Solving, News & Current Events, Politics, Read Your Bible, Religion, Science, Things That Suck, Uncategorized, Writing on October 3, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Surrender to the Center . . . Online
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Libertarian Problem Solving, News & Current Events, Politics on July 24, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Thomas Friedman goes full-stupid again in today’s column. He starts by pointing out, rightly, that the Republican party is captive to idiotic extremists and has abandoned any notion of responsible exercise of power: DID I mention that I’ve signed a pledge — just like those Republican congressmen who have signed written promises to different political [...]
Want Small Government? Eat Shit (Literally)
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Health, How Capitalism Will Ruin You, Libertarian Problem Solving, Politics, Technology, Uncategorized on July 5, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been reading an interesting book lately: On the Grid: A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work, by Scott Huler. It’s an extensive examination of every aspect of urban infrastructure in an ordinary US metropolitan area – where the water comes from, how it’s treated, how the [...]
Chickens Come Home to Roost
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Gender Issues, General, Legal Issues, Libertarian Problem Solving, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Smackdown!, Things That Suck, Uncategorized on January 10, 2011 | 20 Comments »
Twenty shot including a US Congressmember; six dead including a federal judge; nutcase in custody. Shocking but in many ways sadly familiar. And the search for explanations becomes again sadly necessary. In this case, a clear pathway to tragedy may not be apparent, but the general climate that made this possible or inevitable is too [...]
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 [...]
Libertarian or Rapper?
Posted in Humor, Libertarian Problem Solving on October 20, 2010 | Comments Off
Via Digglahhh, Facebook, and innumerable other sources, the Libertarians vs. Rappers quiz. I got 7/10, and had to guess a LOT. The similarities are striking.
Is it Wrong to Use the Right’s Offensive Tactics Against Them? Hypocrisy and Political Debate
Posted in Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Libertarian Problem Solving, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Things That Suck on October 19, 2010 | 6 Comments »
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about an ad that Democrat Jack Conway has been running against Libertarian loony Rand Paul in the Kentucky Senate race. The ad notes that Paul engaged in a lot of weird behavior while a member of a kind of Animal House club at his Baptist college, including humorous [...]
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 [...]
Life in Libertarian Land
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Economics, Libertarian Problem Solving, Politics, Taxes on October 6, 2010 | 79 Comments »
So a group of firefighters let a house burn down in a county in Tennessee. Horrible, right? Yes, but not necessarily for the obvious reasons. In this case, the firefighters let the house burn down because the the home owner had not paid the protection fee. Why was he expected to pay a fee rather [...]
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