Year: 2006
SWAT CounterAttack
Item 1: One of the things bouncing around the libertarian blogosphere is Radley Balko’s recent whitepaper for the Cato Institute called Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America. It’s about the absurd creation of SWAT-style teams for seemingly even the smallest towns. These teams often create violent confrontations where they appear not to… Read more
Ripley v.s. Rain
The rain always wins. Ripley is a curious and active cat, except when it rains. Then he retreats to the only room in the house that doesn’t have windows, the main bathroom, and hides behind the door. Because, you know, there’s water falling from the sky! Here he is during yesterday’s downpour. We put down… Read more
Windypundit 2.0
Windypundit is now Windypundit 2.0. “Web 2.0” is the big buzzword going around the web these days. There are lots of discussions of what constitutes a Web 2.0 site—interactivity, interoperation, customization, Ajax, user-designed content, blogging, social networking, syndication, wikis…the list goes on and on—and the web business bigshots are all picking sides and trying to… Read more
Adorama Camera
Want to help me out at no cost to you? Read on. I buy most of my photographic equipment from Adorama Camera. Their site is well-organized and easy to search. For example, check out this page on 35mm & Digital SLR lenses (the link might be broken if you’re looking at this article in my… Read more
Outsider Leader John McCain
In communist countries, the leaders like to pretend the revolution is still going on, that they’re still standing up for the little guy. Twenty or thirty years after the revolution is over, the powers-that-be like to pretend they are still revolutionary leaders rather than, well, the powers-that-be. In that spirit, meet Senator John McCain, who… Read more