Jennifer Abel is a brilliant libertarian writer and master of the devastating observation: You know those amusement-park shooting galleries where you use an air rifle to knock down multiple rows of moving mechanical ducks? The way they work is, you shoot at the targets all you want, and none of the targets can shoot back. Most schools and workplaces operate on the same … [Read more...] about Of Shooting Galleries And Gun-Free Zones
In the Bookbag: The Cure for Our Broken Political Process
I just received a review copy of The Cure for Our Broken Political Process: How We Can Get Our Politicians to Resolve the Issues Tearing Our Country Apart by Sol Erdman and Lawrence Susskind which purports to tell us how to fix our government so that our leaders will spend less time fighting with each other and more time solving our problems. Naturally, I'm … [Read more...] about In the Bookbag: The Cure for Our Broken Political Process
Best Line About Blagojevich
Megan McArdle puts it in perspective: Most of my friends are libertarians, and hence tend to assume that this sort of quid pro quo is in fact how people get appointments. But we thought it was done with some subtlety, a nudge and a wink, not full frontal demands for payola... There's something really sad about having gone so far that your indelicacy actually amazes the … [Read more...] about Best Line About Blagojevich
It’s Official: We Rule the News Cycle
Jon Stewart opened his show with a few meaningless pleasantries and then started the news with The word "jagoff"...gets thrown around a lot in today's society... and I just knew we were the story. … [Read more...] about It’s Official: We Rule the News Cycle
More On Prostitution
(I started to write this last month, when it would have been more timely, but it kept getting put off by other stuff.) In response to the 3rd part of my rebuttle to Farley and Ramos's article urging the prosecution of prostitution patrons, someone signing herself (I'm guessing) "olympe" writes: Libertarianism is an ideology devised by and for white, heterosexual, middle-class … [Read more...] about More On Prostitution