New items for February 26, 2010: Google Reader: Near Rape Experience Whose Body Is It? Democracy imparts partial ownership of everyone to everyone else and so on. John Stossel relates this through the paternalism of the FDA. Another reason for anarchy/minarchy. Cutting Up Your Credit Cards Innovation of distributed, cellular systems can destroy monolithic systems. We [...]

BWAHAHAHAHA… I go to a public university in GA. The comments on the Augusta Chronicle’s page are, as always, worth the read. One of the commentrs sounds suspiciously like one of my professors from last semester (and the fact that he hints at the fact that he has his doctorate). Chapters 6 & 7 of [...]

New items for February 25, 2010: Google Reader: The Paulpocalypse Listicle Without Commentary: 5 Things You Are No Longer Allowed To Say On The Internet, As Of Right Now

Ironic for a country that has a serious problem with people regularly being stabbed?

New items for February 24, 2010: Google Reader: Boudreaux on Why The Stimulus is a Bad Idea Deadweight Loss of Monogamy/Marriage Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan? Latest Sarah Palin Speech Opens Sixth Seal Radioaesthetics and ultimatonic field patterning Bob Marshall backpedaling, unsuccessfully I’d like to point out that by making contraceptives more readily available, I get [...]

Don’t confuse them with facts To listen to talk radio, to watch TV pundits, to read a newspaper’s online message board, is to realize that increasingly, we are a people estranged from critical thinking, divorced from logic, alienated from even objective truth. We admit no ideas that do not confirm us, hear no voices that [...]

10 tips on writing fiction from some big names in writing The biggest one I took away from this is that I need to actually do the damn thing. Which is something I’ve been overlooking for too long now, aside from this bloggy-blog thing. I love writing and used to plop down and write a [...]

New items for February 23, 2010: Google Reader: i hate thinkin 50 years since the greensboro lunch counter sit-in The Mythical Masterpiece of the Emaciated Mutt by Alison Ross (CD Review) Jobs Bill Just Got Bipartisan Senate Support Anglican bishops back end to ban on gay civil partnerships in church The One Day a Week Restaurant [...]

New items for February 22, 2010: Google Reader: The Overrepresentated Tea People An Irresistible Force with an Insane Rationale by Edwin L. Young, PhD Folk Hero Push For Andrew Joseph Stack As a bass player, I should note that he is not representative of all bass players. Huckabee Dissing Libertarians Meanwhile over at Lew Rockwell, an [...]

That’s What She Said from Megan Mullally I say it at least a few times a week, sometimes to strangers in the line at the grocery store. Always good for a laugh. 2nd best: “Your X is a Y,” where X is either mom, sister or girlfriend and Y is whatever inane object of the [...]