Roderick
The Kingdom of the Fish
May 23Within the kingdom of the fish the fisher-king is king his hooks, his lures bring surcease sweet to those who sway beneath his sway and at his plate sublimely meet the tines, the teeth, the palate grey the finless flay, the stingless sting Within the kingdom of the fish the fisher-king is strong each darting [...]
Worley “Evolves” on Gay Rights
May 22It saddens my heart to think that homosexuals can go around, bless God, and get the applause of a lot of people. Lesbians and all the rest of it? Bless God, forty years ago they’d have hung ’em, bless God, from a white oak tree, wouldn’t they? Amen. – Pastor Charles Worley, 1978 Build a [...]
Cato vs. Cops
May 22I’m glad to see that Cato has started a Police Misconduct Reporting Project. (CHT Jesse Walker.)
SpaceX Marks the Spot
May 22The private space exploration company SpaceX has just launched an (unmanned) space capsule, headed for a rendezvous with the international space station. SpaceX is under contract to NASA, so this isn’t true privatisation yet; but at least it introduces a bit of independence. This seems an appropriate occasion to post once again a link to [...]
Trip Pics VI
May 22More photos: the January 2010 ISIL conference in Phoenix (1 page), the April 2010 APEE conference in Las Vegas (1 page), the April 2011 Mises Circle in Chicago (3 pages), and the April 2011 APEE conference in Nassau (2 pages).
Poe and the Pug Dog
May 20Edgar Allan Poe is famous for anticipating and/or inspiring developments in later writers; the Sherlock Holmes stories, for example, were prompted by Poe’s Dupin trilogy (though Conan Doyle has Holmes dismiss Dupin as a “very inferior fellow”), while the central plot twist in Around the World in 80 Days derives from Poe’s “Three Sundays in [...]
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