Shoeless, Metal-free, and Obedient
Mar 08Whenever I see this ad – – all I can think is: “you’re such a professional, you always have your lunch money ready for the school bully ahead of time.”
Atlas Shrunk, Part 5: Or, More Reasons For Pessimism
Mar 03Atlas’s description of Halley’s Fourth Concerto: It rose in tortured triumph, speaking its denial of pain, its hymn to a distant vision. … The Concerto was a great cry of rebellion. It was a ‘no’ flung at some vast process of torture, a denial of suffering, a denial that held the agony of the struggle [...]
How Roger Pilon Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Empire
Feb 02Bradley Manning and Julian Assange should be treated like a thief and a fence respectively, because our rulers need to conspire secretly with each other, and it would be gauche for the rabble to inquire into the doings of their betters. Thus speaks the director of Cato’s Center for Constitutional [sic] Studies. (CHT Walter Grinder [...]
Equal Protection
Jan 19“Anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I’m telling you, you’re not my brother and you’re not my sister.” — Alabama’s new governor, moments after his inauguration I seem to recall some Jewish guy expressing a somewhat different opinion. Alabama governors are famous for putting their feet in their mouths, [...]
Eppur Si Muove
Sep 13The purge mentality at ARI appears to be alive and well; and it seems that the doctrine of Rand’s inerrancy in matters of philosophy has been extended to include an assertion of Peikoff’s inerrancy in matters of history of science. More info here, here, and here. David Kelley said everything that needed to be said [...]
Looking for Justice in All the Wrong Places
Aug 18Inadvertently funny line from a press release for the new Americanised Torchwood: His choice of career is significant. Someone like Rex could make a fortune in Wall Street, or Hollywood. But choosing the C.I.A. says a lot about him: that for all his swagger, he does believe in justice.
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