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Archive for October 23rd, 2008

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Won’t somebody think of the adults?

By Thoreau
As a libertarian, I naturally hate any argument that starts with “Won’t somebody think of the children.”  I believe that the proper role of children is to manufacture cheap consumer goods while I stroke my moustache and go “Bwah ha ha ha ha!” and count my money.  I mean, duh!
However, when I hear that [...]

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

A paragraph so perfect that its existence in an imperfect world is a paradox

By Thoreau
Greenwald:
It’s just objectively true that there is no country in the world — anywhere — that threatens to attack and bomb other countries as routinely and blithely as the U.S. does.  What rational leader wouldn’t want to obtain nuclear weapons in a world where the “superpower” is run by people like Dan Coates and [...]