Random shots around the web: Meet the interior design cartel and other people who want laws to keep you buying their services. Another item for the list of signs that we have too many federal law enforcement employees: "The government pulls people suspected of being here illegally out of airplane lines and then pays to detain, prosecute and deport them to the country they were … [Read more...] about Design, Deportation, Dead Dogs, and the DEA
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 another of my favorite Onion videos: Are We Giving The Robots … [Read more...] about Sepak Takraw, Time Travel, Home Defense, and Our Robot Masters
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 stand now. Back then, I knew I didn't know enough to have a well-informed opinion (and I was still … [Read more...] about Five Years Later In Iraq
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 government server, to … [Read more...] about Click Here For an FBI Raid
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 out of context", "you're just bringing … [Read more...] about Obama’s Big Speech on Race