Kerry Howley’s Reason cover story on guest workers is just about the best long-form magazine piece I’ve read in… well, if I say “ever” someone will bring up “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” but a long damn while. Seriously, go read it.

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Ackerman clearly gets at least partial credit for the resignation of the State Department Inspector General, having published this damning interview.

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No, I’m not talking about IMing in Raymond Chandler speak, fun though that is: It’s an insanely addictive little game in which you attempt to block the cat from leaving the board. A number of the starting positions look as though they ought to be formally unwinnable, but the cat AI is sort of dumb, […]

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I am not ordinarily a big player of video games—and so, a fortiori, not a frequent watcher-of-YouTubes in which other people play video games. But the final battle sequence from the surprise-hit Portal is really worth a look. The game itself looks entertaining, and even features (what struck me as) an innovative play mechanism: You […]

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I assume every blogger who’s ever worked at Cato will have to link this short Onion article now, and why should I be the exception? Political Scientists Discover New Form Of Government WASHINGTON, DC—Political scientists at the Cato Institute announced Monday that they have inadvertently synthesized a previously theoretical form of government known as megalocracy. […]

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Remember Mr. A, true believers? Unless you’re a serious comics geek or fairly well steeped in the wacky world of Ayn Rand, odds are you don’t. Legendary comics artist Steve Ditko is best known as the co-creator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. But after falling out with his Marvel collaborator Stan Lee, Ditko, well, went […]

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My old friend P.J. Doland has just cooked up a pretty handy looking site called ShoutingMat.ch, with dedicated politics and tech channels running so far. This is especially a boon if, like me, your RSS feed has become sufficiently bloated that you know you don’t have time to wade through it all some days, but […]

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Ah, Internet, you are a boundless cornucopia. Hear your IP address read out in orgasmic moans. (HT: YitC)

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So, I’ve now become accustomed to running into alums of the American Parliamentary Debate Association in the wacky, wonky world of political journalism and punditry, but I just became aware, via a chance reference from a film-buff friend, that someone I knew very slightly from the old college circuit is now some sort of indie […]

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