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One One Th-
Aug 02 2005, 00:18 EDT
Lightning bolts coming down on my head. I can't manage half a one-count between flash and boom. I wish I had a dog just so I could see him bugging out. That is all.
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Antiochian Orthodox leave NCC
Jul 29 2005, 09:53 EDT
The Antiochian Archidiocese of North America has voted to leave the National Council of Churches. For just a smattering of the NCC's ecumenical positions, recently they've called for members to speak out on Independence Day against a "dishonorable war,"
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No Mo' Mo'
Jul 28 2005, 13:55 EDT
Alas, our nation is not ready for a return of the mustache. All the women I know expressed an opinion ranging from strong dislike on the low end to physically manifested revulsion on the high end. The closest it got to a complement was "it is really red
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More Real Bills Doctrine
Jul 27 2005, 23:17 EDT
I just read another article over at safehaven.com on the RBD called A Response to the Real Bills Doctrine. He does a good job trying to show an "a then b then c", outlining how RBD is good.
I need to mull a bit more through some of his points, like go
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Heads Up: Over There Tonight
Jul 27 2005, 17:57 EDT [updated Jul 28 2005, 00:04 EDT]
Over There, a show about the current Gulf War, debuts on FX tonight at 10pm. For some reason I hadn't heard of it until just now. FX original programming it very hit or miss but I'm willing to give it a shot.
Just one more thing: isn't it traditional
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More Door to Door Petitioners
Jul 25 2005, 20:31 EDT [updated Jul 25 2005, 20:50 EDT]
My how Somervillians love their petitions. Today it was a nice and normal lady (contrasting with the freaky ACORN lady last week) trying to collect 4000 signatures for a ballot initiative to divest all Somerville interests from Israel. I assume this mea
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Your week in Quickies
Jul 25 2005, 10:45 EDT
It's 105 in Denver
[andrewdied]
Jul 23 2005, 10:27 EDT
It hit 105 in Denver this week. With the wind chill, though, it only felt like 98
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They lost
Jul 23 2005, 22:20 EDT
We have a guy in the office who was born in Moscow. Occasionally he'll say a nice thing or two about communism to spicen things up. This week he shows up in a CCCP t-shirt. While I just told him "They lost," the winning comment came from a developer. "Du
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Lessig Blog
Jul 23 2005, 12:47 EDT [updated Jul 23 2005, 12:52 EDT]
Woops. I posted this comment at Lawrence Lessig's blog, Cass Sunstein guest hosting. I did mean to be jerky (I thought his posts were too similar and suggested the next one) but it turns out I was a bit too much of a jerk and Sunstein called in his gues
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Hollywood's Christianity Consultants
Jul 22 2005, 09:25 EDT [updated Jul 22 2005, 09:30 EDT]
The International Herald Tribune reprints Hollywood's newfound passion for Christ (w/ NYT byline), an article about making movies more attractive to Christians (or at least not needlessly offensive). While I don't endorse pandering to interest groups i
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I [heart] Door to Door Petitioners
Jul 21 2005, 17:06 EDT [updated Jul 21 2005, 18:08 EDT]
We get plenty of them in Somerville. He's one from just now.
Lady: Hi, I'm on your street today talking to the residents.
Me: I see your button, are you with ACORN?
Lady: Yes, it's great that you've heard of us!
Me: No Thank You.
Door: *whump*
La
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Gamboling thoughts about Gambling
Jul 21 2005, 00:56 EDT [updated Jul 21 2005, 01:00 EDT]
Lawyers love economics, and more than just the kind spelled $$$$$. This week lawyers loved the economics of gambling. The recent Supreme Court nomination has the libertarian originalists at Volokh back-and-forthing about the predictive power of markets
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NYT Weighs on the Supreme Court
Jul 17 2005, 23:58 EDT [updated Jul 21 2005, 09:29 EDT]
Orin Kerr opines that the most recent NYT's editor's op-ed on the supreme court could have been made from his madlibs template for [pro/anti] nominee op-eds. Could be, I laughed while reading both of them.
From the NYT (emphasis mine):
The decision
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Liberal and conservative role reversal?
Jul 17 2005, 18:14 EDT [updated Jul 21 2005, 09:44 EDT]
Cass Sunstein has written a tortured article in the Washington Post on conservatives and liberals switching back and forth on their position on activist judges. He argues that today it is the conservatives who want more judicial activism, as in the 1970's
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Mindwalk
Jul 16 2005, 11:50 EDT [updated Jul 16 2005, 11:59 EDT]
The movie Mindwalk (1990) is currently making the rounds on Showtime. If you ever have to make a "top 5 worst movies of all time" list, think Mindwalk. The plot, as such, is three people walking around castle walls and beaches and having a long conversa
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Austrian Economics and the Real Bills Doctrine
Jul 15 2005, 00:52 EDT [updated Jul 15 2005, 10:38 EDT]
NB, I'm still waiting on feedback from andrewdied but I've tidied up the post and spell checked it, so this is it's fairly final form
Primer
Austrian Economics is easy and doesn't require much math. The rules are simple, you aren't allowed to believe i
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Fair Trade Coffee
Jul 11 2005, 17:01 EDT [updated Jul 22 2005, 15:37 EDT]
Fair Trade Coffee is yet another bad idea to make people feel better. The general idea is some folks have decided that coffee is too cheap and they want to make it more expensive. They do this by building a conglomerate of coffee growers who agree to mor
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Your week in Quickies
Jul 10 2005, 20:35 EDT
John Derbyshire on the quirks of the MASM compiler
[jackdied]
Jul 06 2005, 23:34 EDT
Truly geeky memories from a guy who can't keep a jo
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News Broadcasting as Farce
Jul 10 2005, 16:01 EDT
I always enjoy it when reporters make themselves look ridiculous (local reporters are especially good at this as I've posted about before). As hurricane Dennis ravages the lower states every channel has a live action shot of the reporter guy being buffet
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Vote Mark Niedergang
Jul 07 2005, 22:35 EDT [updated Jul 07 2005, 22:55 EDT]
Mark Who? Mark is running for the school committee in ward 5 of Somerville, MA. I've never been involved with local politics but the recipe seems quite simple. He knocked on my door, talked to me for a couple minutes, and just today I got a hand writte
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Lodon Bombings
Jul 07 2005, 19:39 EDT
I have only a comment, check other blogs or the TV if you want up-to-the-minute commentary.
I have unbound rage and no surprise at today's events. Everyone knows (or should know) what these barbarians are capable of. They hate me and I hate them but th
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An Economic Argument for Kelo
Jul 07 2005, 00:13 EDT [updated Jul 07 2005, 00:22 EDT]
Todd Zywicki is asking for references to posts that support the Kelo decision (eminent domain takings for public benefit, but not public use) on economic terms. So here's one.
An effect of property taxes is to force people who are making unproductive us
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My Property, Right or Wrong
Jul 06 2005, 23:22 EDT
The usually dependable TechCentralStation has a truly bad, empty, vitriolic piece on intellectual property in the EU today. Tomasz Teluk argues (kinda, "states without support" would be more accurate) in "No to Info-Communism" that the EU parliament's vo
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