I actually laughed out loud several times while reading this flensing.

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Reason now has a Facebook group. Semi-related: I note with mild satisfaction that the bulk of the posts on the group “Libertarianism is an Unfortunate Fad” are borderline illiterate, and even the group description is a syntactic mangle.

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Via my friend Chuck in comments below, I see a school choice blog linking to Clint Bolick’s WSJ op-ed last week on Dem candidates’ (ahem) ambivalence on the virtues of private schooling. Short version: All four Democratic presidential candidates oppose school choice, with Barack Obama having gone so far as to call vouchers a force […]

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The desperate attention-mongering antics of Ann Coulter, who long ago transitioned from pundit to mediocre standup comic, seem to have finally proved too embarrassing for her erstwhile base: In her 2006 speech at CPAC, she slagged Muslims as “ragheads”—which she defended as a perfectly reasonable joke since, after all, “they” had blown up the World […]

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Next time you’ve got an appropriate group of people together, and the appropriate amount of alcohol, give this a shot: Agree on a poetic form. One of the sonnet styles is probably a safe bet; if your friends can pull this off with (say) a sestina, they’re both scary smart and not nearly tipsy enough. […]

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That’s right, it’s Casimir Pulaski Day: DCist has more.

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He’d better hope Hillary doesn’t get hold of this. (HT: Laure.)

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You can now watch a bizarre experiment called Blogging Chef, a 4-way liberal/libertarian debate and cooking competition we filmed in the kitchens of Casa de Libertarios & the Florida Flophouse, between chefs Spencer Ackerman and Megan McCardle, with sous bloggers Ezra Klein and Will Wilkinson. I’m seen at the start and the end doing a […]

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The video below shows Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer being hauled off to prison; you can hear what observers say is Kareem being struck and crying out about halfway through.

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