Jesus Brings Us the Constitution
Dec 24Check out this charming bit of theocratic statist-right propaganda. (CHT LRC.) Notice especially the cast-out sinners at lower right: Darwinists, pregnant (and presumably abortion-minded) women, the whole panoply of abomination. (And of course professional killers are prominently represented among the saved.)
A Choice of Scrooges
Dec 24Two rather different libertarian takes on Scrooge: Butler Shaffer’s and mine. (Mine’s from 1993, so it’s not quite as I would word it today, but ’twill serve.)
Thief of Hearts
Dec 24The premise of this movie seems to be a cross between Logan’s Run and the original Repo Man. The idea, I gather from the trailer, is that in the near future, patients in need of an organ transplant can purchase artificial organs on an installment plan – but if they don’t keep up their payments, [...]
A Grave Matter
Dec 24When Neil Gaiman had Miss Lupescu, The Graveyard Book’s “Baloo” figure, say “da,” I initially assumed, albeit with surprise, that he had made the common mistake of thinking that Romanian is a Slavic language. But it turns out that Romanian, lacking a clear Latin term for “yes,” borrowed “da” from Slavonic – so Gaiman is [...]
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