This is what I was doing last weekend.
This is what I was doing yesterday.
This is what I’m doing this coming weekend.
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Boiling the Jaywalkers
So this guy made £35,000 selling forged celebrity autographs, and they caught him. Good. But they’ve also charged him with copyright violations, which is crap; and they’ve decided to lock him in a cage for 21 months, which is absurd. He should be forced to pay back the people he ripped off, to be sure; but he poses no serious danger to anybody. And even if I believed in retributive punishment, which I don’t, how could anyone think nearly two years’ imprisonment was a proportionate response to selling fake autographs?
Of course there is nothing unusual about this case.
Anarchy in Baltimore
Info on the next Molinari Society panel:
Eastern APA, Marriott Baltimore Waterfront, Sunday, 29 December:
Molinari Society, 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m. [GVIII-7, location TBA]:
Author Meets Critics: Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obeychair:
Roderick T. Long (Auburn University)critics:
Julie Maybee (Lehman College-CUNY)
Jonathan Mahoney (Kansas State University)
Charles W. Johnson (Molinari Institute)author:
Michael Huemer (University of Colorado-Boulder)
I’ll also be chairing a (non-Molinari) session on Consequentialism on Dec. 30th, 9-11 a.m.
Paul Krugman Defends Ayn Rand …
… and offers a left-libertarian analysis of the bailouts.
Well, sort of.
(CHT Elizabeth Brake.)
The Revolution Is Being Crowdsourced
The C4SS site is back up – so, happy ending, plus a bizarre plot twist. Details here. Thanks to everyone who helped us!
Rising in the Heat Like a Mirage
Tomorrow I’m off to the University of Arizona to do this.