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- The Conspiracy Hunt Prize Grows!
Our Annual Conspiracy Hunt is getting even more interesting! Graham Kelly of GoldNow just added $100 of e-gold to the prizes. (GoldNow was the first e-gold exchanger, continuously in business since then.) Thanks, Graham!!
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:48:12 +0000 - Agree Or Die! (Polarization on the Frontier)
I think I have to be considered a wild advocate of the Internet. After all, I’m probably best known for writing a novel that more or less credits the Internet with facilitating the next step in the evolution of mankind. But, the Internet has caused some problems too, and this post adresses one such [...]
Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:00:55 +0000 - Merry X-Mas
Cartoon from the book “God Wants You Dead” by Sean Hastings and Paul Rosenberg. Merry X-mas to all… I am pretty sure that I came up with this image myself, based purely on random collisions of ideas in my skull, in the mid 1990s - but the urban legend of the “Santa Cross” may be older. See [...]
Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:13:28 +0000 - Why I DO Vote… Occasionally
Since Sean posted so eloquently on not voting, I thought I’d make the opposite case. Last time I took the Political Compass test, I came out at almost the same place as Sean. And, I’m in firm agreement with the points he makes. (I especially appreciated him talking about the Commerce Clause.) Yet… I will, occasionally, [...]
Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:06:16 +0000 - Why I Don’t Vote
It’s not that I have never voted. I have gotten myself registered, and made it to the polls on a few rare occasions. But those times have usually been to vote “No” on some particularly heinous ballot proposition, and not because any particular political candidate seemed like a good choice to me. (Unfortunately, they don’t [...]
Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:07:01 +0000 - The Incentive Trap
The political season is upon us again, and all sorts of half-truths, mis-statements, and outright lies are filling the air. It’s not hard to get fooled by some of them. After all, the politicians work long and hard to make them effective. You have to deal with them only occasionally, but a politician may spend [...]
Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:14:04 +0000 - Torturous Economics
Last night I attended an event at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) where the writer James Bovard gave a talk entitled “Civil Liberties Under Attack in America.” http://www.fee.org/events/detail.asp?id=6289&page=1&t=0 His talk detailed many of the reductions of our liberties that have occurred under the current Bush administration, as a result of the “War on Terror.” He said [...]
Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:03:14 +0000 - Q&A - Collective Identity
Q: You often talk about collective identities like they’re bad things. Don’t we all belong to collective identities? French, German, male or female, athletic or non-athletic, and so on? A: Before I get all the way into this, note a crucial word, “belong.” It is sometimes used in ways that can create confusion. Now, it is [...]
Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:39:09 +0000 - Drink up
December 5th is the anniversary of the ratification of the 21st amendment to the U.S. Constitution which served to repeal the 18th amendment. The 18th amendment, as you probably know, brought the prohibition of Alcohol to the federal level. Previous to the 18th amendment there had been some dry states, but between January 16, 1920 [...]
Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:05:06 +0000 - Holiday Observances
One of the interesting problems with a new religion like Environmentalism is that it is not yet generally recognized as a religion. This means that some people will not realize that they have to abandon their old religion in order to practice this new one fully. Every collective idea-organism has its traditions that are practiced to [...]
Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:30:24 +0000
