I may have just engineered the biggest obstacle to getting my ass out of bed since the heyday of Kozmo.com, which (for New Yorkers) made even the five minute stroll required to pick up damn near anything unnecessary. I’ve set up a wireless network connecting my notebook and desktop. Fast enough to watch streaming video, […]

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It’s frequently necessary to remind conservatives that libertarians aren’t necessarily libertines. Which is true. But not in my case. So I was pleased to discover that I liked the band The Libertines, a British sort of The Clash–meets–The Strokes affair. They’re playing the Black Cat this evening.

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Plenty of smart folk have already rebutted (or celebrated) this post at Through the Looking Glass, but I’m gonna arrive late to the ball and jump on the dance floor anyway. Charles Dodgson notes a case in which some silly homeowners association forbade a man from putting a UN flag on his lawn, and then […]

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So, who are the slackers responsible for the fact that I can’t get an American DVD version of Richard Linklater’s seminal and brilliant film Slacker? Back in high school, I managed to hunt down and dub a copy after some effort, and it soon became one of my favorite films. (I haven’t seen it in […]

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Barry Deutsch takes issue with commenters on the Castillo case, defending the court’s decision and the classification of Demon Beast Invasion as obscene. (Whether he thinks the clerk is the correct person to punish in this instance isn’t clear, but leave that for now.) There are two main contentions Barry offers, both of which I […]

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Derb almost justifies his existence for ten seconds by linking to this amusing catalogue of contemporary cliches.

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I know a thousand people must have commented on this already (I think Amy has), but the rhetoric of “tax giveaways” is really starting to piss me off. The tax cuts may be a bad idea, given that the current strategy seems to be to fund them with debt, but deciding not to take the […]

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Costa Rica’s Otto Guevara may be the world’s most successful libertarian politician. My interview with him is up at Reason.

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Today is International Left-Handers Day. Come, o my brethren, and celebrate!

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I’m starting to see a new variant on the infamous Nigerian email spam. In this version, the author is an African attorney who was planning to divert the assets of his late clients to his own account, contrary to their expressed desire to have their money sent to various Christian causes. But, upon having seen […]

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