From the monthly archives:

March 2002

Terps Rule! PG County Police

March 31, 2002

Terps Rule! PG County Police Incompetent — First, WOOHOOOO! Go Terps! We’ll crush Indiana.
Now… the Prince Georges County Police are fucking idiots. Nationally notorious for their brutality and abuse of power, the insanely militaristic PGCPD badly exacerbated the damage of the College Park Final Four steet celebration. I live about two blocks from the [...]

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Yes, Democrats are Assholes Too

March 26, 2002

Yes, Democrats are Assholes Too — This weekend I carefully crafted an analytically sensitive and astonishingly insightful response to the many replies to my “Republicans are Insufferable Dorks” post. It was a gem. I wept like Halle Berry at the music of the language, the irresistible tautness of the arguments, the clever yet enticingly masculine [...]

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Informed Tactical Voting v. Gut

March 21, 2002

Informed Tactical Voting v. Gut Identity Politics — I think Rand Simberg wonkfully misses the hard nut of truth in Mr. Instant’s point about the damage done to the Republicans by censorious prudes. Rand argues that it’s better to go pachyderm than jackass, because, while true that there are those on the right who would [...]

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But Why Vote At All?

March 21, 2002

But Why Vote At All? — I should mention that I don’t vote. First, the state is a system of institutionalized violence and exploitation, and I don’t care for the idea of endorsing it by directly participating in the political process. Second, my vote doesn’t matter. Third, no candidate ever espouses my values to a [...]

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Nader Spotting — Filled with

March 20, 2002

Nader Spotting — Filled with renewed resolve to finish my grad studies, I jumped off the Metro at Farragut West after work to see if the Borders on 18th and L had Michael Bratman’s Intentions, Plans, and Practical Reason. They didn’t. But they did have… Nader, in the flesh, getting interviewed by some nebbish NPR-ish [...]

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Action Between the Lines –

March 20, 2002

Action Between the Lines — There’s an interesting exchange between Dan of Nature Creek Farm and myself going on down in the comments box of the lifestyle entrepeneurship post below. What do you think?

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The Meaning of Life –

March 18, 2002

The Meaning of Life — Read this moving essay by David Schmidtz on the meanings of life, with a bit of autobiography. Find out how today’s best libertarian political philosopher was saved at the last minute from a life as a mailman in Saskatchewan. Good philosophy and good reading.

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Try Not to Laugh –

March 14, 2002

Try Not to Laugh — Think of the kittens. (You’ll have to scroll down.)

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The Benefits and Hazards of Lifestyle Entrepreneurship

March 13, 2002

This past weekend I had the happy responsibility of running a small workshop that included, among notable others, my favorite political philosopher, Wendy McElroy, and Chuck Freund and Nick Gillespie of Reason. We shacked up in a quaint art deco hotel off Dupont Circle, ate in swell restaurants, and talked at length about human cognition, [...]

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9/11 Reflection — A couple

March 13, 2002

9/11 Reflection — A couple days late, but still worth it, I guess. I just looked back at my first blog, hosted as an experiment on the site of a friend, Carolyn Ray, who is/was developing a journaling program, and discovered my almost forgotten 9/11 post. You’ll find my (I must admit) somewhat knee-jerk libertarian [...]

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North Korea: Butter Side Down

March 6, 2002

North Korea: Butter Side Down — Here’s stupidity so flourescent your eyeballs will burn… Slate asked a bunch of folks what book they would foist upon their city. Check this:
Cindy Chupak, writer/executive producer of Sex and the City
The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss for Washington, D.C. (just to remind President Bush that some people [...]

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Get a Job! — My

March 5, 2002

Get a Job! — My employer, The Institute for Humane Studies, is looking for a few good men and women to fight the good fight for liberty (and make my job less stressful). Go to the job board we maintain on Libertyguide.com and look at the IHS listings for Manager, Program Director, and Program Assistant. [...]

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