Jenn‘s blogspheric debut reminded me of something that’s puzzled me for a while. (For the rest of this post, please keep in mind that all the folks I mention maintain personal websites that in no way carry the imprimatur of their employers.) Why the huge disparity in blog-distribution among the public policy tanks? You’d think […]

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Some thoughts on the electronic voting industry’s unhealthy obsession with secrecy over at reason.

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Urbanite and hepcat Jenn “Dutch” Holland is ready to start tearing up the blogosphere.

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Aren’t I too young to be nostalgic for youth? So you’d think, so you’d think. And all the odder to have that feeling inspired most by things that weren’t really part of my adolescence… See, despite the ubiquity of the single and video for “Buddy Holly” some ten years ago, I’ve only just gotten my […]

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Arthur Silber’s taking a serious financial hit due to the transit strike; if it’s worth it to you to see this guy return to blogging one day, hit the man’s tip jar.

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I received the following charming letter in response to my recent piece on Lou Dobbs, trade, and immigration: Leave it to a Latino to welcome more illegal Latinos and excuse their crimes. Gee, could it be coincidence? The “National Question” is arriving soon and it will be a wake-up call for illegal Latinos – back […]

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Strolling home today from the cafe where I sometimes work so as to get out of the apartment for a while, I popped into a local used bookshop. Browsing through the new arrivals, I spotted a hardbacked copy of Effort, Opportunity and Wealth by the late economist Julian Simon. Flipping it open idly, I was […]

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Lawrence Solum and Tim Lambert have compiled lists of a number of bloggers who’ve recently taken a 2-dimensional political ideology test that’s been around for a while. (It’s a version of the old Nolan Chart, but intended to avoid the pro-libertarian bias many such quizzes have.) Unsurprisingly, I come out pretty strongly libertarian anyway. Now, […]

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In case anyone was wondering what I did for Samhain…

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