I was browsing CommuterPage to figure out the best way to get to BWI for a trip this weekend, when I noticed that the front page was jam packed with links to editorials hectoring readers to approve a referendum increasing Virginia’s sales tax, with the revenue earmarked for various sorts of transportation infrastructure spending. Now, […]

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I’ve just listened to a semi-interesting radio interview with cognitive scientist Stephen Pinker about his new book The Blank Slate. That is to say, some of Pinker’s part was intersting — the callers alternated between totally brain dead, and pathetically desparate to appear erudite by name-dropping ancient philosophers with no real connection to the discussion. […]

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I’m officially infatuated with Invisible Radio, a sporadically broadcast webradio station that never fails to pump out lots of interesting sounds. Unfortunately, like lots of other online radio, they’ve been feeling the squeeze from new RIAA-sponsored legislation that would impose (retroactively!) a system of royalties from which traditional radio stations have always been exempted. The […]

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A while back, I mused that the prospective invasion of Iraq had the potential to shake up the standard political alliances with which we’re familiar. I’m delighted to now be able to join in the shaking a bit. A group of writers and bloggers from both sides of the political specturm (and, for that matter, […]

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Glen takes issue with my response to Sonia in a post so well reasoned that my brief and weak response shouldn’t deter you from reading it. My response is going to be brief and weak because, at root, the disagreement on IP between Glen and I is a function of the fact that he’s a […]

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Well, I realize I’m not really “responding” to Eve any more, in the debater-y sense of a rebuttal or riposte. Maybe this is just sort of a riff-on-Eve which may or may not contain points of disagreement. Partly because I found myself nodding along to a good bit of that last post, and partly, I […]

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Assume that, as many have suggested, Osama bin Laden & co. would like nothing better than a U.S. led attack on an Islamic nation (prefereably the insufficiently theocratic Iraq), believing that this would spark a Sam-Huntington-style “clash of civilizations.” Some have also speculated that Democrats will be less enthusiastic in their support of Bush’s WoT […]

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Radley “climbs down from the fence” on Iraq. Even the capo di tutti warbloggers calls it “thoughtful,” so you know it’s gotta be good.

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I seem to be making disagreeing with fellow libertarian Sonia Arrison something of a full-time job. In a recent TechCentralStation piece, she takes to task libertarians in the “IP abolitionist” camp for showing undue deference to property. Well, I don’t know that I’m quite in the “abolitionist” camp (yet), but I’m probably a good deal […]

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… oh god. I almost just choked on my own tongue. People have been working overtime parodying MS’s most inane ad campaign yet, and the results are really goddamn funny.

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