Or how I learned to stop thinking and love the government.
From an article passed on by Radley Balko via Twitter, I noticed this comment:
If the city did not have legal grounds to do what they did, I’m sure they would not have done it.
Influenced by the Pirahã’s concept of truth, he slowly lost his Christian faith and became an atheist. He says that he was having serious doubts by 1982, and had lost all faith by 1985 after having spent a year at MIT. He would not tell anyone about his atheism for another 19 years; when he finally did, his marriage ended in divorce and two of his three children broke off all contact. [Wikipedia]
Christians are really terrible people.
One of the main writers is Dustin Black, who was himself raised a Mormon but has since been cured. [Classically Liberal]
However, I’m not entirely convinced he’s cured. He thanked god a lot in his Oscar speech.
I’m against. For this reason alone she’s a terrible pick.
She might not be a racist, but she’s still wrong.
I’m with Ilya Somin and Jason Kuznicki.
I don’t use a radar detector to save me speeding tickets (though it has been known to do that), I use it to warn me of the location of cops. For a reference, see the post below.
As I have repeatedly said, the police in the United States should be considered armed and dangerous. We have overwhelming evidence that they routinely engage in violent assaults on the flimsiest of pretences. Be assured that witnesses are not safe, that innocent bystanders are not safe, and you aren’t even safe in your own home if a police officer knocks on your door. This is why I stay as far away from cops as possible. If you see a police officer your best response is to merely move as far away from them as possible. You should not speak to them, you should not try to help them. You should treat them as you would a rabid dog. Do nothing to stir them up but get as far away from them as you can. [Classically Liberal]
From today’s Leader-Post,
NEWS FLASH: Logical conclusion: “First Nations’ woman abandons newborn baby in Walmart toilet.”
The crime does not rest with April Halkett. It rests with all of us as a society. None of us can wash our hands of this.
We need to take more care of our children and less of our bank balances. Act now, before it is too late!
PATRICK C. A. JOHNSON
The Leader-Post sees this nonsense as fit to print, but not my latest letter to the editor?
The Boston-area transit authority trolley driver who allegedly slammed into another train while text-messaging his girlfriend Friday was hired as a minority because of his transgendered “female-to-male” status and had three speeding tickets on his driving record in recent years, ABC News has learned. [Link]
How is that remotely relevant?
Maggie and John Anderson of Chicago vowed four months ago that for one year, they would try to patronize only black-owned businesses. The “Empowerment Experiment” is the reason John had to suffer for hours with a stomach ache and Maggie no longer gets that brand-name lather when she washes her hair. A grocery trip is a 14-mile odyssey. [Link]
Not only is that economically stupid, it’s racist.
Swedish health authorities have ruled that gender-based abortion is not illegal according to current law and can not therefore be stopped, according to a report by Sveriges Television. [Link]
Why would it be? If “I don’t want a baby” is a legal reason then how would the gender be somehow different?
I must second Mike Munger’s comment: Best Video Ever.
Naomi Klein might be the least informed supposedly intelligent commentator in the world. - Peter Boettke
As a child I participated in a number games of ring and run. I even managed to have such indiscretions put on my elementary school permanent record when my group of friends decided it would be a good idea to do such things during recess.
As with everything, Wikipedia has a page on it. However, Wikipedia would have you believe that the most common name for such a game is Knock, Knock, Ginger in Canada or Ding-Dong Ditch in the United States.
Now I’m don’t want to question the wisdom of Wikipedia, but who the hell calls it Knock, Knock, Ginger? Seriously. That’s the stupidest name possible. I’m going to assume when Wikipedia says Canada they mean aristocratic Ontario loyalists.
The name is Ring and Run. Simple and literal.
Via Sullivan and Kottke I learn that a former staff writer for (one of my favorite publications) The New Yorker, Dan Baum, has been explaining how he was hired and ‘fired’ from there. Except he’s doing so on Twitter. So that means tweet after tweet after tweet you get the larger story.
I’m sorry, but that’s just stupid. Twitter is a useful communication tool and a good deal of fun, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good medium to tell a story. Baum’s use of Twitter feels like a high school kid desparately trying to fit in, but failing. Just blog normally people.
This reminds me of Radley Balko’s skewering of Ashton Kutcher:
Ashton Kutcher, writing about the founders of Twitter in the latest issue of Time:
Years from now, when historians reflect on the time we are currently living in, the names Biz Stone and Evan Williams will be referenced side by side with the likes of Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, Guglielmo Marconi, Philo Farnsworth, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs — because the creation of Twitter by Stone, 35 (right), Williams, 37, and Jack Dorsey, 32 (not pictured), is as significant and paradigm-shifting as the invention of Morse code, the telephone, radio, television or the personal computer.
Twitter is fun. But it isn’t going to revolutionize the way we communicate any more than Ashton Kutcher has revolutionized the way we play practical jokes on one another.
Ashton Kutcher is more proof that studying hard science doesn’t make you smart.
The provincial government will contribute $42.4 million of SaskTel’s $220-million capital budget for 2009 as the first phase of its three-year rural infrastructure program. [Leader-Post, May 6]
In the United States, diarrhea is a pain, an annoyance, and of course an embarrassment. In much of the developing world, diarrhea is a killer, especially of children. Every year 1.8 million children die from diarrhea. Ending the premature deaths of these children does not require any scientific breakthroughs, nor does it require new drugs or fancy medical devices. Preventing these deaths requires only one thing: economic growth.
That is from Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok’s new text, Modern Principles: Macroeconomics.
