Two-Fisted Tales
Feb 18A lot of Babylon 5 fans aren’t crazy about the spinoff series Crusade, but I really liked it; I think it’s visually more beautiful than B5 (the effects technology had improved), plus it has two of my favourite characters, the cryptic, melancholy Galen and the lovably obnoxious Max Eilerson. Frustratingly, Crusade was marred by intrusive [...]
Superman Linked to 9/11
Feb 18The following picture appeared in Adventures of Superman #596, which by odd coincidence came out the same week as the 9/11 attacks:
Colin Ward R.I.P.
Feb 18I’m saddened to learn that Colin Ward has died. Jesse Walker has rightly called Ward’s Anarchy in Action the left-wing equivalent of The Machinery of Freedom. Ward may or may not have called anarchy the cement that holds the bricks of society together, but the quote is a nice summary of his outlook – that [...]
I Am Property; Therefore I Am Theft
Feb 18From Tom Palmer a couple of years ago, here’s both an amusing anecdote about neocon ignorance and a helpful miniature bibliography on the history of the concept of self-ownership: I once heard Irving Kristol dismiss libertarian ideas of property in one’s person as “an invention of some hippies in the 1960s.” I challenged him to [...]
A Question About the Huntsville Shooting
Feb 18So the media outlets all seem to be saying that Amy Bishop shot six of her colleagues before her gun “jammed,” whereupon she was “pushed out of the room.” We haven’t heard what model gun she was using, but don’t most handguns have just six shots? If so, why not assume her gun ran out [...]
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