I’m anxiously awaiting the arrival of a largish print by Seattle photographer Phil Banko. I think it captures the feeling of being a libertarian journalist in DC well enough…

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I see via Crescat Sententia that a few people have taken my little one-liner squib on the phrase “unborn children” below for an argument and gone out to rebut it. First, it wasn’t really. It was a point about semiotics and the way the phrase either assumes that the fetus is already one kind of […]

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A surprising number of people I know appear to have seen a thoroughly mediocre film called The Ninth Gate—a film that would be much less disappointing if it hadn’t been directed by Roman Polanski and starred Johnny Depp and Frank Langella, who I usually like. Problem is, it’s a severely mutilated adaptation of a much […]

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I was noticing that the current crop of Samuel Adams commercials seem to be geared toward folks tormented by the “paradox of choice.” One that’s been running a lot shows a couple of guys looking at a dictionary-sized menu as a haughty waitress with an Austrian accent tells them how many different beers from different […]

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I was summoned for jury duty today and had the vertiginous experience of reading Discipline and Punish in the Jurors’ Lounge as I waited to hear “Sanchez-499” on the list of names and numbers they were rattling off. I was called down after a few hours, waited perhaps 45 minutes with fellow prospective jurors while […]

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Just read it.

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A little surprised to see Ampersand making use of the question-begging pro-life locution “unborn children.” If you don’t share their view about the moral status of the fetus, that’s like calling a pile of bricks an “unbuilt house” or, for that matter, a blank screen an “unwritten blog post.” Let’s not give them this one.

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A piece on cybercafe regulations in Garden Grove, California: “Smile, You’re on Cafe Camera”

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One thing that never fails to piss me off about debating free trade is that you invariably will get a few halfwits out there who respond with something like: “Well, if your job were threatened like mine has been, you’d sing a different tune.” In other words, they’re advancing the notion that somehow when you’re […]

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Glenn Reynolds says: GOOD POINT: “The question of whether Saddam Hussein was a monstrous, murderous tyrant has two answers – ‘no’ or ‘yes.’ There is no ‘yes but.’” No, it’s not. It’s a transparently retarded point. The obvious answer is: “Yes, but being a murderous tyrant has never been and shouldn’t be sufficient reason to […]

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