My Cato colleague says it better than I could. A must-read post.
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by Jason Kuznicki on December 10, 2010
My Cato colleague says it better than I could. A must-read post.
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Jason Kuznicki is a research fellow at the Cato Institute and editor of Cato Unbound. He's on twitter as JasonKuznicki. His interests include political theory and history.
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The New Inquiry - "Old King Coal"
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Libertarianism in a Nutshell
I fancy meself a South Park Republican, no prig he, more likely to laugh at the ineptness of somebody trying to offend him than to be offended. A Piss Christ or a Virgin Mary made of elephant shit is so last century it’s hardly worth the bother of feigning outrage.
But I do confess that our friends and allies in Japan have come up with something I’m compelled/appalled enough to hide behind a link.
The only consolation is that there’s really nothing to be done for an encore. ( 32 comments)
Mildly distracting notes on distraction
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It’s a sobering validation of Friedrich Hayek’s famous dictum that to be controlled in our economic pursuits—perhaps now more than ever—means to be controlled in everything.
And that’s a libertarian insight that would never occur to anyone else.
Damn HTML. Take these links as part of the previous post:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/08/18505299.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Flood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist
Must read indeed.
Mike: I’m not really concerned to establish my team’s mascot got there first. Marx, Fanon, Foucalt, Debord & (sigh) Chomsky all instructive on this front. You win, I guess, if we’re racing.
Also, totally orthogonally: Poor Chomsky. He’s sort of turned into the Thomas Sowell of the left.
Well somebody had to turn into the Thomas Sowell of the left.
It’s bad enough Thomas Sowell turned into the Thomas Sowell of the right. The guy used to have things to say.
It’s a TOS world; we’re just living in it.
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