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  • More Geeky Dreams

    The folks at Geek Fantasies were at E3 and made a few more videos: Geek Fantasies [Update: Dead link.] There’s also an outtakes reel. Read more

  • Bad News for Sick People and Fans of Federalism

    Well, the Supreme court decided Raich today. Or, as the AP wire story so aptly puts it, “Court Rules Against Pot for Sick People.” It’s bad enough that this is a giant “Fuck You!” to sick people, as Reason‘s Nick Gillespie puts it. Sometimes, however, the Supreme Court has to reach conclusions that cause trouble… Read more

  • Steal From the Best

    Here’s how you write a newspaper column. Find a topic that engages you. Then bang your head against a computer screen until what you’ve written no longer makes you want to hurl. My words are important to me. I struggle with them, obsess over them. Show me something I wrote and I can tell you… Read more

  • Vice Squad

    One of the sites I visit pretty frequently is Jim Leitzel’s Vice Squad. The blurb on the site describes it as Explorations of public policy concerning alcohol, nicotine, other drugs, prostitution, gambling, pornography, …. Jim Leitzel is the Associate Director of Public Policy Studies (or something like that) at the University of Chicago. He’s an… Read more

  • Thanks!

    I don’t want to get too involved in blogospheric self-reference, but I want to thank everybody who’s visited Windypundit in the last few months, and I especially want to thank Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped for sending me an enormous amount of traffic. I started Windypundit in July of 2002. I didn’t work at it… Read more