Looks like around the same time I was writing my “Third Way” column, the NY Times was editorializing to similar effect — though, of course, without quoting Hayek (heaven forfend). Jim DeLong, however, argues that open source boosters are being naive if they think Linux is suitable for government (or, indeed, business) use. One preliminary […]

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So if you’re depraved enough to read this blog with any regularity, you may recall that some weeks back, both Will Wilkinson and I waxed snarky about the 200-proof conservatism of an issue of Doublethink devoted to cloning and genetic technologies. Well, my faith in humanity is restored, because instead of writing off a couple […]

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So no sooner do I write a piece mentioning the unsettling potential for Microsoft, as the dominant OS, to “lock down” their software in ways that benefit them, but not consumers, than Gates & co. conspire to provide me with an example. (Ok, actually, the example came first, but I just noticed it.) Their Windows […]

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So, in general I’m all in favor of a vigorous press that keeps tabs on what the government is up to. But if, in fact, U.S. Special Forces are massing on the Yemeni border with the intent of doing a “surgical extraction” of al-Qaeda fugitives there (that is, if this isn’t an attempt to misdirect […]

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I know you’ve all been anticipating this eagerly for weeks, but just in case you forgot: BLOGORAMA II: September 19th @ Rendezvous Lounge on 18th and Kalorama, 7:00pm In the immortal words of A Tribe Called Quest: tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram. Wholesome fun for the entire family; orgy to follow.

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Fox News reports that the vegetarian boom of the last several years is going into retreat. Bizarrely, Andrew Stuttaford writes on The Corner that he regards this as “good news.” I’m confused. I understand why a vegetarian would think it were good news that fewer people were eating meat: many of us think it’s morally […]

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Apologies to those of you for whom this sort of evangelism is old-hat; this is an LFB column, and it seemed likely that this would be new to some of that audience. Friedrich Hayek famously — if somewhat unusually — defined freedom as the condition under which each could deploy her own information for her […]

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I’ve finally gotten RedHat Linux working (more or less) on my laptop. Ok, so the little roll-bar and the sound won’t be quite perfect until download the kernel source and recompile with a few tweaks, but still, I’m digging it.

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So, how lame is it that I actually get all the übergeek references in this Onion article, in which someone with an uncanny resemblance to Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons bows out of attending a wedding to catch a marathon of The Prisoner? (As in, I spotted the screen name “muscatis1” as a nod […]

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So a progressive/lefty friend and a couple of his comrades are coming down for the Anti-Capitalist Convergence at the end of the month, and crashing at my place. I’m getting a mild kick out of envisioning the conversation that Friday morning. Julian: [Yawn]… ah, hell, what time is it? Protest Dudes: Six-thirty. The march against […]

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