A student in Afghanistan has been sentenced to 20 years in prison (narrowly escaping a death sentence) for questioning Islam’s treatment of women.
Isn’t it wonderful how U.S. intervention has brought freedom to that troubled region?
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Grinding Small
The Florida branch of the Boston Tea Party has separated from the national Boston Tea Party.
We look forward to hearing from the Boston Tea Party of Judea.
Barr Hopping
Charles Johnson comments on Bob Barr’s Reason interview.
Anthony Gregory comments on Bob Barr’s MacNeil/Lehrer interview.
(Yes, I know MacNeil is dead, but that’s still what I call the show.)
Ya gotta love this mainstream, pragmatic, government-trustin’ libertarianism ….
Watch Some Moore
Some new Watchmen footage (well, partly new) is online. (Conical hat tip to AICN.) And it continues to look good; I just hope the State lets us watch it.
In the meantime, check out Alan Moore’s comments on the political subtext. (Though I have to take issue with Moore’s claim that no one before him had tried that kind of approach to the superhero mythos; surely Squadron Supreme and Dark Knight Returns, to name no others, can claim precedence.)
Itemised Deduction
Hey, somebody put the Kant Song on YouTube. Transcendental, man.
Don’t Follow Leaders, Watch the Parking Meters
Anarchy is and always has been a romance. It is clearly the best way, and the only morally sensible way, to run the world – that everybody should be the master of their own destiny, everybody should be their own leader. This is something that I still believe; I think that even a cursory look around the world at the moment – particularly at the moment – would reveal that it is about .000001 percent of the world’s population that causes 99.99999 percent of the world’s problems. And that tiny percentage – it’s not the Jewish banking conspiracy, it’s not the asylum-seekers, it’s not the secret homosexual conspiracy running Hollywood, it’s not even the Scientologists: it is leaders. That what we need is an administration at most; we don’t need people to boss us about.
– Alan Moore