Year: 2008
Sepak Takraw, Time Travel, Home Defense, and Our Robot Masters
Random shots around the web: I’m not a sports fan. To me, all sports coverage sounds like this. What time travel would really be like. If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the right to bear arms in Heller, I want to get one of these for home defense. And I want to paint it like this. Here’s… Read more
Five Years Later In Iraq
We just passed the fifth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, and the staff of Reason magazine have been looking back to 2003 to review their positions on the war in Iraq then and now. I figure I might as well go on the record about where I stood then and where I… Read more
Click Here For an FBI Raid
There’s no way this could possibly go wrong: The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and then raiding the homes of anyone willing to click on them. Undercover FBI agents used this hyperlink-enticement technique, which directed Internet users to a clandestine… Read more
Obama’s Big Speech on Race
Everybody’s still talking about Obama’s speech on race, so I might as well put in my two cents. Was it self serving? Of course. He’s a politician in an election year. But I mostly thought it was damned good. Too many politicians, when confronted with embarassing statements by a friend, will either dissemble—“I didn’t know”, “that’s… Read more
What’s Up With Bear Stearns?
I’ve been trying to make sense of what the Federal Reserve has been doing with Bear Stearns. My usual source for smart thinking about financial issues, Kip Esquire, is so far silent, so I’m trying to figure this out myself. It’s not going well. The argument against government bailouts of private businesses is that it’s… Read more