Wednesday Lazy Linking
Oh! That Chekhov. Dorothy, Cat and Girl (2010-06-14). (Linked Tuesday 2010-06-15.)
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Lazy Linking
Oh! That Chekhov. Dorothy, Cat and Girl (2010-06-14). (Linked Tuesday 2010-06-15.)
THE ARCHEOLOGY OF LIBERTY: The Mises Institute has posted a ton. Jesse, The Perpetual Three-Dot Column (2010-06-11). THE ARCHEOLOGY OF LIBERTY: The Mises Institute has posted a ton of old issues of Liberty in pdf form. My writing appeared in Liberty from late '91 through early '97, and I was a staffer there from mid-'93 to the end of '96. So I've got a lot of old…
(Linked Saturday 2010-06-12.)
Free Bradley Manning! Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2010-06-12). SPC Bradley Manning, a 22-year-old intelligence analyst stationed at Forward Operating Base Hammer in the vicinity of Baghdad, was arrested two weeks ago for having supposedly sent Wikileaks the "Collateral Damage" video of US troops shooting Iraqi civilians.Justin Raimondo has the full story here.As Mike Gogulski notes in the comments,…
(Linked Saturday 2010-06-12.)
The Anthony Gregory Song Video. blog of bile (2010-06-12). This is a world of magic and delight. (Linked Saturday 2010-06-12.)
Obama Theory of the Month. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-06-06). Is Barack Obama a secret Muslim? communist? immigrant? extra in the video for "Whoomp (There It Is)"? Gawker weighs the evidence.
(Linked Saturday 2010-06-12.)
Inconsistent Idealization in Rawls. Will Wilkinson, Will Wilkinson (2010-05-26). Section 42, "Some Remarks about Economic Systems," in John Rawls' A Theory of Justice is peculiar, especially the discussion of public goods problems. Rawls cites James Buchanan and Mancur Olson as authorities on the nature these problems. However, these are political economists working from assumptions about behavior that Rawls specifically…
(Linked Sunday 2010-06-13.)
Any Doubts about which is the Roguest Nation? Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2010-06-13). From Physicians for Human Rights:In the most comprehensive investigation to date of health professionals’ involvement in the CIA’s “enhanced” interrogation program (EIP), Physicians For Human Rights has uncovered evidence that indicates the Bush administration apparently conducted illegal and unethical human experimentation and research on detainees in CIA custody. The apparent…
(Linked Sunday 2010-06-13.)
Unarmed Student Shot by Police. bosco, blog of bile (2010-06-13). On March 11th, 2010 police officers raided Derek Copp's apartment, shined a flashlight in his eyes and shot him in the chest. The raid was concerning an alleged sale of $60 worth of marijuana. The officer is currently facing a felony charge with a maximum penalty of four years. It…
(Linked Sunday 2010-06-13.)
Fun with Android. James, snellspace.com (2010-06-03). I started a new fun android project last night... think of it as something along the lines of a peer-to-peer version of twitter where you can post status updates to specific groupings of contacts. If the contact is also using the app, they'll get a stylized notification, there will be…
(Linked Wednesday 2010-06-09.)
songs listened to while writing this comic: martha (tom waits), if rap gets jealous (k'naan), around the corner (sarah harmer). all pretty much entirely unrelated, but Here We Are. Dinosaur Comics (2010-06-10). T-Rex has not yet heard of the work of Elinor Ostrom. (Linked Thursday 2010-06-10.)
A Few Million Bodies Between Friends. the Medium Lobster, Fafblog (2010-06-03). Well now. Israel, the Palestinians, and Gaza. It's a sad story, and we're terribly sorry about it all, of course, feeling pronounced Official Regret in our pronounced Official Regretbones, and we feel compelled at this juncture to demand a request for an investigation into the possibility of an inquiry into…
(Linked Friday 2010-06-11.)
Roundup on BP. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-06-08). The next time someone tells you that the BP oil spill shows the dangers of a free market and/or the necessity of government intervention, send them to: Darian Worden here, Sheldon Richman here, Gary Chartier here, Alex Knight here, and Kevin Carson here, here, and here. Please let me know…
(Linked Tuesday 2010-06-08.)