Year: 2015
A Few Notes About Obama’s Anti-Terror Plan
So President Obama gave a short speech about his administration’s plan to fight terrorism in the wake of the possibly ISIS-linked shootings in San Bernardino. I don’t know enough about the subject to comment on his foreign policy plans. On the domestic side, however, I saw a few things I want to bitch about: I… Read more
The Star Wars Libertarian Special
Yes. Exactly. Read more
A Few Brief Meta-Observations About the Paris Attacks
The internet right now is filled with confused bits of news about the terrorist attacks in Paris. I don’t really have anything to say about the attacks themselves beyond the futile observation that killing innocent people is evil. But we’ve seen these kinds of events before, and there are a few things I like to… Read more
Free (Brewing of) Beer
Everybody seems to be making fun of Salon these days, and I think I’m beginning to understand why. Case in point: Marcy Wheeler’s post about the recent GOP debates, responding to some of Rick Santorum’s claims about insurance market consolidation under Obamacare: Santorum claimed to be a lot less worried about consolidation in the watery beer… Read more
Kate Burkholder Is an Authoritarian Bitch
Kate Burkholder is an authoritarian bitch. Kate Burkholder is also a fictional character. This is a problem for me. I enjoy police procedural mysteries — the crime scene, the forensics, the autopsy, interrogations, politics, history, secrets — but all these years of blogging about libertarian issues and the criminal justice system have made it hard… Read more