Agreement in Judgments
Dec 21This program that guesses what person, real or fictional, you’re thinking of (CHT Neil Gaiman) is pretty eerie until you figure out how it works. (Hint: it will get more and more accurate over time.)
Against Pseudo-Reform
Dec 19MoveOn has a petition opposing the healthcare bill on the grounds that it’s a giveaway to insurance companies. I signed for the heck of it, though I suspect their approach to improving the bill might diverge in some particulars from mine.
The Check Is Not In the Mail
Dec 18According to this story (CHT LRC), the first check (or cheque) in England was written in 1659. Clearly this is false. Nobody would have accepted the first check; indeed, nothing even counts as “writing a check” except against the background of an established practice of check-writing. Hence there could never have been a first check. [...]
Healthcare Con
Dec 18The following letter appeared in this morning’s Opelika-Auburn News: To the editor: To understand the current debate over healthcare, one needs to see past the rhetoric of both parties and look at the policies they actually enact. Republicans promise to protect us against big government, while Democrats promise to protect us against big business. But [...]
I’m In an Infinitely Reproducible New York State of Mind
Dec 18The papers for the Molinari Society’s upcoming IP symposium at the APA are now online. (For those planning to attend, I’ll announce the session location here as soon as I can wrest the information from the APA’s bony fingers at registration.) I notice that the Ayn Rand Society session at the APA is also devoted [...]
You Complete Me!
Dec 16This trailer for Iron Man 2 looks promising – especially the first half with Downey dissing the Senate and doing his likable-asshole shtick. But as for this trailer for the Clash of the Titans remake, although I can tell the filmmakers have seen Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, and 300, I can’t [...]
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