Lots of Activity
Another writer and I have been very active at Oval Office 2008 over the past couple of days. If you have interest in politics, Loyal Reader, go ahead and check it out.
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TV VP
Jay Cost argues that television has made the Vice-Presidency important, and that the manner in which Vice-Presidential nominees are selected is profoundly undemocratic and antiquated in the modern era. But as I wrote yesterday evening, the way Presidential nominees are… Continue Reading
Entrepreneurship At Its Finest
This moneymaking plan is amoral, illegal, risky, and elegant. What more could a college student want? Step 1: Hire and have sex with a prostitute fronting as a masseuse, thereby inducing her to commit a crime. Step 2: Complain that… Continue Reading
Clear Thinking
Something is not good because it is “natural.” But calling something “natural” can produce startling feats of cognitive dissonance.
MacArthur Was Right
I’m becoming quite an admirer of Professor Ilya Somin. Today, in commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Falkland Islands War, he writes quite convincingly that this relatively small conflict demonstrates that, in politics, there is nothing quite like a… Continue Reading
Fred, You’re Getting Us All In Trouble
It all started with a throwaway joke by Joe Scarborough on his punditry show on MSNBC about Jeri Kehn, “Right Said” Fred Thompson’s smokin’ hot wife. Suddenly, it seems the whole blogosphere is aware of the fact that not only… Continue Reading
Plinko Will Never Be The Same
A surprisingly poignant article about Bob Barker retiring from The Price is Right. A taste: Like most good teachers, he made the lesson as painless as possible. Here was this exceptionally bright man, who knew exactly how silly the games… Continue Reading
Auto-Experimentation
We may well question this guy’s common sense quotient for doing this, but we can profit from his experience. He asked himself: “Hmm. Waterboarding. Is it really so bad? Let’s find out.”
The Godfather: Libertarian Treatise
Ilya Somin makes an interesting case for Mario Puzo’s novel (and, by extension, the movies which faithfully adapted it) as a libertarian treatise. Certainly, Professor Somin recognizes that the real focus of the story is personal – the corruption of… Continue Reading
Hitchens For The Brain
You may not like Christopher Hitchens, if you know who he is or what he writes about. If you’re a return Reader, you probably have something of a taste for the ironic, iconoclastic, and insightful (whether I provide the insight… Continue Reading