Monthly Archives: March 2009

Advocatus Diaboli

31st
Mar. × ’09

Fazil Mihlar has an article in the Vancouver Sun titled Saint Wal-Mart?. (Conical hat tip to LRC.) The question mark is superfluous – it’s the usual right-libertarian hagiography of Wal-Mart. He includes his e-mail at the end of the article, so I wrote him the following note: I read your article on Wal-Mart with interest. [...]

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They Really Give Nobel Prizes Away Like Candy These Days

30th
Mar. × ’09

Once again, Bob Murphy explains why Paul Krugman’s criticisms of Austrian Business Cycle theory are a bust.

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Au Revoir à Maurice

29th
Mar. × ’09

I’m sorry to learn of the death of Maurice Jarre, perhaps best known as the composer of the Lawrence of Arabia soundtrack. But while the main theme of that soundtrack is magnificent, for me his best soundtrack overall is Doctor Zhivago, which stands as a terrific musical composition.

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Inadvertent Libel

29th
Mar. × ’09

Headline just seen on Google news: “Nurse also among those who killed at nursing home in Carthage.” Turns out, as I suspected, that the headline needs either to gain a “were” or to lose a “who.”

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The Evil Dead

29th
Mar. × ’09

Recent changes in my blog (necessitated by the fact that the .net version wasn’t updating) unfortunately make all links to aaeblog.net into dead links; only aaeblog.com works at the moment. Well, not dead exactly – but links to anything on aaeblog.net just go directly to the aaeblog.com main page. Alas, when I got this blog [...]

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Float Time, Part 2

29th
Mar. × ’09

First the London Times, and now Cato! Patri Friedman is giving a talk at Cato on the Seasteading project; it will be broadcast live online. There’s also a Facebook page for the event. Congratulations, Patri! And on the general subject of Patri and seasteading, see Joel Scholsberg’s recent comment as well.

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