Author Archives: Anton

finite menu

One episode of Murder in Suburbia involves a mate-swapping club of four couples. (In this case, sex provides the opportunity but not the motive.) It occurred to me in my insomnia that, instead of drawing names from a hat, for … Continue reading

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from where I sit

On Wikipedia, a quarrel over this sentence: Most members of libertarian parties support low taxes and a balanced budget because they believe citizens should keep most of the money they earn, while logically consistent libertarians, including anarcho-capitalists, refuse all methods … Continue reading

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the global village

David Morgan-Mar points out that, thanks to modern technology, one needn’t be born in London to claim Cockney status.

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here and there

Claire Wolfe: The Quality of a Free Man (cited by Rational Review News Digest) James Leroy Wilson says some things that I have attempted to say about, for example, highways: Perhaps a genuinely free market would have seen the development … Continue reading

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irreconciliable difference

Still getting the hang of Wikipedia. Anything in nature, technology or mythology that can be represented with an image can be put on a shield, and probably has been; and the Wikipedia article “Charge (heraldry)” is bloated with examples. Is … Continue reading

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a particular kind of earworm

Does anyone remember a song of thirty years ago that ended with the narration “But now we must descend, for there is another side to this vision”? Later: I am advised that it’s “Solar Boat” by Ray Manzarek.

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mutual admiration society

It’s almost always a pleasure to find a new domain in one’s referral log (unless one is an insufferably big shot). My newest referrer, not counting spam, is Degrees of Freedom, by James. I don’t yet know which James.

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