Depressing
Mar 16Watching Colbert right now, as self-righteous but befuddled liberals who think the New Deal ended the Depression are bashing self-righteous but befuddled conservatives who think World War II ended the Depression. Drag this New Republic hack off and bring on Gaiman already!
Not Quite Enough Pop Culture
Mar 16Rachel Madoff is all excited that David Eick, executive producer of Battlestar: Galactica, is going to be addressing the UN – along with (here her voice falls – obviously she doesn’t know who he is) Ron Moore, and (her interest perks up again) some of the actors. Rachel, don’t you have assistants or something to [...]
Lord Nocturne
Mar 16Neil Gaiman is scheduled to appear on Colbert tonight Gaiman’s father just died last week, so he may not be at his best, but I’ll be watching.
Swords, Shoes, and Sorcery
Mar 16Last night I watched the new Wonder Woman animated movie. As usual, Bruce Timm and his merry minions don’t let us down – it’s exciting and fun, and a far cry from the dreadful tv series of my youth. (Plus, terrific music by Christopher Drake: I didn’t want to start the film because I was [...]
Float Time
Mar 16Patri Friedman’s Seastead project makes it into the London Times. (Conical hat tip to LRC.) Congratulations, Patri!
Taoists! Thomists! Turgot!
Mar 16Or, if you prefer: Daoists! Dominicans! Donisthorpe! Rothbard’s fascinating Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, which weighs in at over a thousand pages and still, ironically, never gets as far as the Austrians themselves (Rothbard died before completing it), is now available online from Mises.org in two honkin’ enormous PDF files: Volume One [...]
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