Email letters to Reason get shunted my way, and because the address is publicly posted on a high-traffic site, there’s a fair amount of spam. Including this: Subject: Use a Government grant to improve your life! Did you know the Government gives away money for almost any reason? It is incredibly simple to qualify for […]

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British scientists have developed a new material that may soon allow us to create Spider Man gloves. Displaying an astonishing shortsightedness, the researchers have held off thus far citing the high cost and limited scientific benefit. I think they’re just waiting for someone to develop a set of those web-slinging bracelets…

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I figured I should finally break down and get a TV for my new gig at Reason. If CNN is this bad, I can’t imagine what Fox News will be like…

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Via Plotzworld come some interesting revelations about Microsoft’s font sets. Go into MS Word, crank up your font size, and type “NYC” in capitals. Then highlight it and change the font to Webdings. Cute, huh? Ok, highlight it again and change the font to Wingdings. Creepy to say the least. Microsoft has said (and I’ll […]

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A post by Atrios raises a question I’ve toyed with now and again for a few years. Minarchist libertarians by and large hold that crime prevention and the enforcement of rights are legitimate government functions and, by extension, legitimately funded through taxes of some sort. Redistribution, on the other hand, is held not to be […]

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I’m in the estimable company of Matt Yglesias as one of the two non-professors cited in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s article on scholar-bloggers.

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Despite technically having one day yet to go at Cato, I’ve joined the Reason bloggers over at Hit and Run. Henceforth, shorter news-links will probably go over there, while long, tedious screeds go here. And fighting with lefties on Jakeneck. And anti-war/anti-imperialist stuff on Stand Down. Oy. Thassalottabloggin.

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My colleague (for one more day) John Samples passed on this piece by Dr. Ian Pitchford. It’s complimentary on face, but in a subtly condescending way. It’s a bit like being complimented for tying your shoes, or eating dinner without drooling. Anyway, it begins: Reason’s cover story for May, ’03 was “Pulling Our Own Strings: […]

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This looks useful… a friend just forwarded a comprehensive list of D.C. Happy Hours. Use it wisely.

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I think I can safely speak for my generation when I say that the childhood memories we’ll each cherish most fondly are of 1980s TV advertising. Give yourself a few hours to waste and prepare for an orgiastic nostalgia frenzy.

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