teh anarchy

Brian Doherty writes:

“States, after all, cannot function without first aggressing against someone, if only to get tax money to fund their activities.”

It’s amazing to me that libertarians can…

I have previously noted that Rothbard presents us with a cartoon version of Rousseau. I am now reading K. Polanyi’s The Great Transformation for a class I am teaching with the same name, and I…

Ever since I upgraded to the new iPhone OS, that message pops up on my screen from time to time. Underneath is a button reading ‘Cancel’.

OK, if there is nothing to undo, what the heck does…

The upshot of this column, which contains lines like, “Favre also understands this offense can’t afford to be dominated like it was against Arizon,” is this:

Last year, Favre did not understand…

I came back home last week, and after taking a couple of runs through town everything seems to still be more or less where it was before. Apparently my running like a maniac back and forth in front…

to sack of angry scorpions. Scorpions say they will sign if he just lets them out of the sack.

OK, my research has advanced to the point that I can forward two candidates. Now, when I say “sandwiches,” I mean something you could eat everyday for lunch, and not “Sloth tongue with Antibean bee’s…

I was asked to look at the CRU source code to see if the comments looked reasonable to me, so I’ve gotten myself a bit familiar with this whole “Climategate” bru-ha-ha. I’ve read a few…

British Cabinet member A: Sir, you will die on the gallows or of a loathsome disease.
British Cabinet member B: That depends, sir, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.