Via Taki's: Jury trials are in large part a scam. I don’t have a better idea, but that doesn’t keep them from being scams. To begin with, you are supposed to face an impartial jury. The Foundering … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2014
I met Julia Tourianski at a Mises Canada thing…
Interesting interview. (I see some anarchists are still enthusiastically consuming alcohol and tobacco they've presumably purchased from the State, thus "voluntarily" paying ridiculously high taxes … [Read more...]
‘I don’t think that the people that designed theories of identity ever, ever thought about toothbrushing…’
Why Is It So Hard For Women to Write About Sex?
Atlantic: To see a narrator put sex at the center of her life in this way—without making a Chelsea Handler joke or a transgressive drama or a victimized tragedy … [Read more...]
The latest edition of the Yodeller is out!
John Derbyshire reviews The Second Machine Age
John Derbyshire writes: Either from fear or (more likely) sheer ignorance, they show no awareness of human biodiversity. They quote the USA’s unimpressive overall scores on the 2009 … [Read more...]
‘A change in where a person uses his or her drug of choice can increase the likelihood of an overdose…’
“If you habitually use in your car, for example, the body prepares itself to receive the drug when it’s in that environment,” Dr. Rieckmann said. “It’s called conditioned tolerance. When people using are in an unfamiliar places, the body is less physically prepared.” [Read more...]
‘The Tea Party was completely a creation of big, big money. Like crazy money.’
Why not amuse yourselves in the comments? PS: [Read more...]
Harold Ramis: We Saw Him First, Eh? (My new PJMedia post)
Harold Ramis was an hono(u)rary Canadian: Those of us who grew up watching Harold Ramis on SCTV — before the show was a glint in America’s eye — surely feel … [Read more...]
This almost makes up for Taylor Swift’s induction last year
The Songwriters Hall of Fame announced on Tuesday that the legendary Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff will be the 2014 recipients of the Johnny Mercer Award. Along with being the masterminds … [Read more...]
The other ‘rape culture’: Get raped, win a prize
As I've been saying... … [Read more...]
Americans love bands I’ve mostly never heard of
Note the cluster of old/dead artists in the north-east: … [Read more...]