Unqualified Offerings

Rainbough Phillips has a good essay about the decidedly non-utopian nature of libertarianism as a political philosophy. Ironically, many criticisms of libertarianism presume that utopia is its test, that if a libertarian system doesn’t produce perfect justice and harmony (as defined by the critic) then libertarianism is a failure. Can you guarantee that X won’t [...]

“If they can do what’s best for their financial future, then why can’t I?” saith the league’s premiere wise receiver. Catallarchy has the details.

Some oddities to the report this week that the joint Italian-American investigation cleared the US troops involved of negligence and malice and bad posture. (Link via Outside the Beltway.) First off, no official report has apparently been released, rather someone leaked to NBC that the “preliminary report from a joint U.S.-Italian investigation has cleared the [...]

Basic way to find your place in the sports ecology. If your people would leave tomorrow to take an equivalent position in another league, you’re a minor league. Thus, US Major League Soccer, the Arena Football League, NFL Europe. If your people would leave tomorrow to take a lesser position with another league, like now-former [...]

How ’bout them Wizards! Yglesias tries to make the case that Washington point guard Gilbert Arenas had a better night than Cleveland’s sensation LeBron James in the Wizards’ victory over the Cavaliers last night. (Matt was at the game; I was at the TV.) It’s not an altogether convincing argument, but on the lesser point [...]