Archive for December 26th, 2007
Rhino Repellant
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007Wow, it seems that by agreeing to begin a libertarian blag with my friend John, I seemingly have unleashed a monster onto the world. When he approached me with the idea, I was concerned that we would not have frequent enough updates. It seems this fear was absolutely unfounded, since ...
Gene Callahan on Rousseau
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007Gene Callahan, Austrian economist, LRC contributor, and author of Economics for Real People, runs a blag called Crash Landing. He wrote a good post about the first part of The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, defending Rousseau as being a very intelligent, sharp, and skilled political philosopher, and for having ...
IP absurdity
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007It is not proof of an idea's incorrectness that it results in impractical absurdities that go against common sense, but it's a good indication. Intellectual property laws fit the bill nicely. Just because incompetent and corrupt governments give patents to undeserving parties and protect the most ridiculous, non-proprietal "innovations" and ...
Pale Blue Dot
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007I'm still convinced this is the best video on the internet.
The sad state of Zimbabwe
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007Robert Mugabe has ruined the once-nice African nation of Zimbabwe because he, too, is a fascist, insane zealot. He is a racist who seized all the white people's land and drove every prosperous, successful person out of the country. His incompetent control of the central bank has resulted in astronomical ...
Bueno para los venezolanos
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007There was an article from Time magazine that was published at Yahoo.com, Why Venezuelans Turned on Chavez. Obviously Hugo Chavez is a fascist maniac who wants to become a totalitarian dictator because of how well that's worked in Latin America's past. That, I gathered from the article, is the ...