Predictably, what Jesse Walker has to say about the Kochs is more interesting than what the corporate-liberal media have been saying.
And on the pedestal these words appear: My name is Robert C. Byrd, Senator of Senators: look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains: round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away.
Here’s that Jon Stewart video on Obama that I mentioned earlier.
Jon Stewart’s rant on Obama’s continuation of Bush’s policies just now was a welcome relief from Olbermann and Maddow, who couldn’s find anything to criticise Obama for tonight except his dreary speech on BP.
The problem with elections is that the incumbents always win. If not the present incumbents, then the future incumbents.
If you’re interested in signing a petition asking Rand Paul to support Red & Black Café’s right to bar cops from their premises, click here. (I don’t know how thrilled the Café would be with Paul’s support – but I doubt they’re at much risk of getting it ….)
In addition to what you can find at Liberty magazine’s official site, there’s a trove of back issues of Liberty on Mises.org. (CHT Jesse Walker, who has a good labortarian piece on pp. 53-57 here.) It’s been pointed out that “G. Duncan Williams,” the pseudonymous author of a sort-of-pro-Dukakis piece about the Bush-Dukakis presidential race [...]
Oops! British Petroleum sends its flunkies to the Gulf of Mexico to carry out a dangerous and ill-conceived project without adequate safeguards, and a disaster results that claims eleven lives. British Petroleum gets a stern lecture from our President Incarnate. Oops! Our President Incarnate sends his flunkies to Afghanistan to carry out a dangerous and [...]
Just saw Jack Conway (Rand Paul’s opponent) on Olbermann, explaining that he can woo conservative-leaning voters away from Paul because “I’m fiscally responsible in certain areas.” So which are those other areas where he’s fiscally irresponsible? Apparently foot-in-mouth disease is rife on both sides of the aisle in the Kentucky senatorial race.
This is probably not the ad I would come up with if I were offered the chance to air an anarchist political ad on tv: But man, it sure beats the alternative:
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
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