With Ezra Klein on Sicko, Scooter, and segregatin’ Supremes. Memo to self: Lighting. Also… what in God’s name happened to four years of college debate training? I swear, it took two years to cure me of that fucking eyes-floating-up-when-I’m-thinking tic. Anyway. Addendum: Judging by the comments, my point about mandating vacation time may not have […]

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Well, this is about eight kinds of fucked up.

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The DC Madam’s telephone records are now available for public consumption, but not in a particularly easily-searched format. So if you’re dying to check whether a particular number is found in the Book of Life, you can go to DCPhoneList.com.

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I appear to have just gotten name-checked in the geekiest gossip column ever.

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Brock at BattlePanda has a chuckle at my loony suggestion that Ratatouille reflects the influence of the ideas of Ayn Rand. Because you know how we nutty libertarians are, reading our wacky notions into everything. To see some kind of Randian influence on creator Brad Bird, you’d have to be a foaming-at-the-mouth libertarian moonbat like… […]

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Brink Lindsey has a new Cato Unbound essay up on “The Libertarian Center,” based on his excellent new book The Age of Abundance. Matt Yglesias, Jonah Goldberg, and yours truly will all have reaction essays up in the coming week.

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Polls show Americans are about evenly split on whether George W. Bush ought to be impeached; a solid majority favor impeaching Dick Cheney. That’s much stronger popular support than existed for the last actual impeachment of a president.

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Rand Simberg steals a base: By the way, it would also be nice if [news that London’s bomb plotters were doctors] finally puts to bed the ongoing “progressive” myth that terrorism is caused by poverty and alienation, or by our foreign policy (the latest manifestation of this nonsense is the nutty notion that we are […]

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Gene Healy explains.

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Competition is stiff for the title of “stupidest argument against libertarianism,” but Michael Gerson may just have grabbed the brass ring. In The Washington Post, he writes: But Second Life is more consequential than its moral failures. It is, in fact, a large-scale experiment in libertarianism. Its residents can do and be anything they wish. […]

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