Author Archives: Anton

spam-b-gone

Posted on Saturday, 2006 July 22 by Anton

Akismet appears to be effective in protecting WordPress blogs from spam.

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elsewhere

Posted on Friday, 2006 July 21 by Anton

Will Wilkinson debunks the notion that private charity would be better spent to “leverage” government spending — in other words, in rent-seeking.

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quasi-human space exploration

Posted on Thursday, 2006 July 20 by Anton

It’s well known that a vampire exposed to sunlight will catch fire. But what if there’s no free oxygen about?

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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

Posted on Friday, 2006 July 07 by Anton

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

Posted on Tuesday, 2006 July 04 by Anton

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

Posted on Tuesday, 2006 July 04 by Anton

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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