Monthly Archives: June 2009

Argentina and Beyond

30th
Jun. × ’09
By Roderick

It seems my prediction has been confirmed. (Well, admittedly my prediction wasn’t entirely random.)

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Breaking News = Broken News

26th
Jun. × ’09
By Roderick

OK, Michael Jackson is dead, very sad – but Jesus Christ! Last night virtually every single news program was entirely devoted to hours and hours and hours of what was essentially, given the relative paucity of details, a five-minute story. Endless footage of people milling around outside Jackson’s home with nothing happening, combined with endless [...]

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Down in the Cruddy Muddy Deep

25th
Jun. × ’09
By Roderick

Libertarianwise, the 1967 movie How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying has something for everybody. I don’t mean that it offers any deep moral or political message; it certainly doesn’t. But on the one hand, its relentless skewering of the corporate ethos will be welcome to mutualists and agorists; as one Amazon reviewer puts [...]

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Pleistocene Jams

25th
Jun. × ’09
By Roderick

Check out the world’s oldest musical instrument.

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Don’t Form a Union, Take a Government Pill

25th
Jun. × ’09
By Roderick

Check out Jesse Walker on how the welfare state undermines the labour movement. Daniel 6: 7, as always.

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Don’t Cry For Me In Argentina, Parte Dos

25th
Jun. × ’09
By Roderick

Mark Sanford’s wince-inducing love letters are news, I guess; but reading them aloud in a gleefully mocking tone of voice, as Der Olbermann did last night, seems pretty low.

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