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Archive for July 14th, 2008

Monday, July 14th, 2008

A Fine and Private Place

By Neel
In comments, Hal asked:
One thing I’d love to see a libertarian comment on in a blog post is the increasing tendency of those growing up in the 21st century to be completely oblivious to privacy concerns. When your entire life is written across the internet and permanently inscribed in the way back machine, how [...]

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Pasture-ization

Trend stories tend to generalize from anecdotes and overstate social phenomena, but it does interest me that Molly Katzen, of Moosewood Cookbook fame, has apparently gone "flexitarian."

Monday, July 14th, 2008

“Ill”, “Dead,” “Speak,” “Don’t,” etc.

By Thoreau
The passing of any person is a tragedy for that person’s friends and loved ones, and for the sake of Tony Snow’s family I hope that they are able to quietly and respectfully bury him and mourn his passing and move on with their lives outside the public eye.
For the sake of the rest [...]

Monday, July 14th, 2008

OK, I want to try eating green just a bit

By Thoreau
After hearing how wonderful free-range chicken is, how it’s so much tastier and more ethical and better for the environment than a Prius driving past a wind farm, I decided that I’d like to try some ethical meat.  But there’s a twist:  I want my first adventure with free-range poultry to be a duck.
So, [...]

Monday, July 14th, 2008

I must take issue with my co-blogger

By Thoreau
Jim writes downblog:
Because the GOP itself will regain power. If it regains power while the same lovely Unitary-Executive tools are lying around, things will be even worse next time.
The whole premise of this is that our greatest peril is a future Republican administration abusing power. Yes, as I observed in a thread yesterday, [...]