Author Archives: Anton

Argentine dialect?

Posted on Monday, 2004 December 13 by Anton

Mail through yahoo.com.ar yesterday carried the tag Ahora podés usar Yahoo! Messenger en tu Unifón . . . . Shouldn’t podés be puedes?

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QotD

Posted on Monday, 2004 December 13 by Anton

Acton: Many men have compressed their entire wisdom into portable aphorisms. Others have had it done for them. Epigraph to — what else? — a collection of excerpts from the writings of Lord Acton. I became curious as to when … Continue reading →

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linky goodness

Posted on Monday, 2004 December 13 by Anton

Robin Hanson: Is Fairness About Clear Fitness Signals? Ryan Sager: The Killing of Peter McWilliams Linda Schrock Taylor: Great Ideas of Homeschooling . . By the way, I recently tried to post a comment on an old entry, and ran into … Continue reading →

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approof of appudding

Posted on Sunday, 2004 December 12 by Anton

What would political campaigns be like if approval voting — in which a vote for X cannot cause Y to lose to Z — were the rule? Candidates other than the frontrunners might do more “positive” than “negative” campaigning, in … Continue reading →

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links without comment

Posted on Saturday, 2004 December 11 by Anton

Barlow v TSA (password-protected) (thanks Sunah) Tasteless Screeners Awards Gun Grabbers Say the Damnedest Things! School as prison What is Too Human? The ethics of human-animal chimeras An Indian’s Thanksgiving Proposal Give ’em what they want: more government

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Protestant music?

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 December 08 by Anton

One of my correspondents made a joke that could be read as implying that J S Bach (1685–1750) was a Protestant. Which got me to wondering: who was the earliest Protestant composer whose name I’d know? Henry Purcell (1659–95) comes … Continue reading →

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if only you believed in miracles

Posted on Sunday, 2004 December 05 by Anton

Travis found a choice rant by Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek: But the bluest blue-state left-“liberal” atheist oughtn’t be too quick with the self-congratulatory praise of his or her own rational faculties. Most left-liberals are pure creationists when it comes … Continue reading →

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