Here’s a micro-story I started with the Access Crypto Summit flash fiction prompt in mind, left half done, and then belatedly finished off anyway, because it seemed a waste not to:   BUZZFEED/CQ CONGRESSIONAL TRANSCRIPTS September 25, 2023 – FINAL Excerpts from Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Deterring & Interdicting Child Pornographers & Internet […]

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With Ron Paul’s now-infamous newsletters once again making headlines, I mulled whether I ought to revisit the issue, but ultimately decided that there wasn’t much to add to the long piece Dave Weigel and I wrote for Reason back in 2008, especially since I’d already elaborated in a couple blog postscripts written shortly after that […]

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“Rational Selves, Moral Communities, and Ethics for Sociopaths“, over at the new Libertarianism.org blog.

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So, I’m as big a fan as anyone of the birth control pill, even though I’m an indirect beneficiary of its wonders. And notwithstanding my generally libertarian sympathies, I even think it makes an enormous amount of sense to make subsidized—and in some cases free—contraceptives available to people who genuinely can’t afford them, if only […]

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Andrew Cohen at Bleeding Heart Libertarians kicks off what will apparently be a series of posts on moral objectivity by considering the subjectivist position—the view that whether certain acts are right or wrong depends on the values of a particular person or culture. He takes a position I’ve always leaned toward myself, which is that […]

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Some further assorted thoughts falling out of the first few weeks of Google Plus: People seem initially pleased with the way privacy is baked into the Circles architecture. I wonder whether it doesn’t actually make inadvertent privacy breaches of the “DM #fail” type more likely. The way most people use Facebook in practice, there’s a […]

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On Twitter, my friends Shani and Erie are engaged in a bit of time-honored kvetching about the legendary and general awfulness of restaurant Web sites. Who thinks it’s good idea to blast annoying music at people going to your site? Why do they so often rely on Flash, which doesn’t really add anything to the […]

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From the ingenious Fake Criterions tumblr.

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From the Goddamn Cobras, who brought you the Brooklyn Brat Pack, and the excellent Pearl and the Beard: Pearl and the Beard – Will Smith Medley from Goddamn Cobras Collective on Vimeo.

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Via Glen Whitman:

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