Yep, it’s that time again: Thursday, May 22, the Cato Blog Mafia invites you to join the D.C. metro area’s webloggers, blog readers, and assorted sexy people for the fourth occasional Blogorama on Kalorama at the scenic Rendezvous Lounge. Every one so far has been a blast in my book. Check out some photos from […]

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Cute line from il capo di tutti bloggo: Bloomberg seems to want to turn New York into Singapore — only without the efficiency or prosperity.

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Ok, I’m now able to divulge the news mentioned a few posts ago: At the end of May, I will be leaving my much-beloved Cato Institute to take on the job of assistant editor at Reason magazine. In other news, Cato will now be looking for a new staff writer. (The job description should be […]

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Over on The Corner they’re taking potshots at libertarians with the predictable invocation of Emerson’s dictum that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” But as Glen Whitman once pointed out to me, back when we were roomies in Manhattan, that just ain’t what Emerson meant. In other words, he wasn’t saying there […]

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My friend Aaron over at SecureTheory has a fascinating post on the use of distributed networks to safeguard sensitive locations. And no, it’s not just TIPS with fancier jargon. Aaron thinks there’s not much point to it, because they still intend to pay the distributed camera-watchers. I’m a little more sanguine about the project, because […]

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If you’re walking to the corner to catch a cab, and one whizzes by as you’re about halfway there, it will be the last cab for at least 15 minutes. Corollary to the Iron Law of Taxicabs: If you finally decide to try another corner, a cab will pass about ten seconds after you’ve left […]

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So I finally killed my old keyboard, and just want to put in a plug for it’s replacement, Logitech’s Internet Navigator. I don’t have much use for all the extra function keys, but it’s quiet, comfortable, and makes typing more pleasant.

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I should have some exciting news to post within the next couple of days… stay tuned.

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Various folks have linked to this New York Times piece in which various critical theorists glumly contemplate their own near-total irrelevance. In part, of course, this was inevitable. “Theory” was always eminently mockable, and since the peak of its influence in the mid 80s it’s been subjected to more than its share of well deserved […]

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Via (ahem) “Thomas Anderson” at Anarchismo, I see that England now has an honest-to-God superhero. It’s about time. Why don’t more people do this stuff, man? We’ve got enough rich eccentrics in this country. Surely in a culture so saturated with the superheroic archetype, one or two have gotten it into their heads to train […]

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