[Courtesy of Prema.]

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Slashdot has linked the TechCentralStation debate. I blushed ever so slightly at the editor’s kind appraisal. Most of the comments so far appear to be tilting my way, but then, that’s more or less what I’d expect on Slashdot.

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Colleague Kerry Halferty-Hardy just pointed out to me this Time article which reveals that in college, Trent Lott was one of the most strident opponents of ending a whites-only policy in his fraternity. I guess that’s one of “all these problems” that would’ve been avoided had we enjoyed another serial intern-groper in the White House […]

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The administration has finally decided that the smallpox vaccine purchased on the taxpayers’ tab should be made available to citizens who want it… as Chuck Peña and Vero DeRugy have been arguing for months.

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So I figured I’d drop the gay marriage issue after the last post. Also, upon looking back on the first screed I banged out in response to a Stan Kurtz piece, I admonished myself to remain calm and polite, even when responding to people with truly repugnant views. Well, I’m obviously not sticking to the […]

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After a too-long hiatus during which The Fly Bottle was starting to look like Will Wilkinson Magazine (to paraphrase Jim Henley), or maybe Will Wilkinson Quarterly, my favorite philosoblogger returns to the fray with a spate of new postings.

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In the comments section following Jim DeLong’s response to my open source article, programmer Virginia Warren points out that some of DeLong’s characterization of the “General Public License” under which open source software is released is misleading. She writes: [The GPL] does *not* say, as Mr. DeLong claims, that software licensed under the GPL cannot […]

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Ok, not to beat this issue into the ground, but two addenda on the topic of gay marriage… First, yes, I know that gender bias triggers “intermediate scrutiny” in equal protection cases, not the “compelling interest” standard required when “strict scrutiny” (as triggered by, e.g., race) is in effect. I used the “compelling interest” language […]

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I occasionally talk about what I call the “Tracy Chapman Problem” faced by free-marketeers of various stripes. That is, “Poor people gonna get their share / Don’t you know I’m / Talking ’bout a revolution” makes a passable folk song lyric, whereas it’s hard to picture college kids sitting around with an acoustic guitar, voices […]

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I’ve written an article defending “affirmative action for open source” in government procurement over on TechCentralStation, with a response by Jim DeLong (recently of CEI, now of PFF). The reply is, as one would expect from DeLong, quite an able one, though I do feel compelled to observe that he focuses quite heavily on the […]

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