Author Archives: Anton

a buggy spammer?

In the past few days I’ve received dozens of robot comments whose only plausible purpose is to see what will get through the filters. Most of them contained exactly three links to well-known entities, most of them in entertainment or … Continue reading

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vile bile

Progressives don’t allow us white males many privileges as such, but a great one is that no matter what political opinions we may hold we don’t get slimed in racist language for them.

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Liberty Car

Steven Hilton wants to cover his car with Libertarian campaign stickers. Got any?

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I do not understand young women, film at eleven

I don’t know how many times this has happened. I’m on the phone with some chirpy Career Gal, she says something to which I say “Yes, fine,” and then she warbles “Okay??”, leaving me somewhat bewildered and impatient. It has … Continue reading

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this website supports integration

The Answer Desimplified, on a t-shirt. Ligatures for our times Many translations of a conceivably useful phrase (possibly inspired by a similar project) (all cited by the muted horn) when grammarians go bad

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uncertainty and moral absolutes

Mark Kleiman unwittingly expresses a case for limiting government in general: This is a special case of an underappreciated general principle: the difficulty of judging consequences in advance means that we should pay more attention to means, relative to ends, … Continue reading

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Creative Destruction

Sameer Parekh writes: It appears that everytime I post to the blog, I start the post with, “it’s been a while since I’ve posted here.” No wonder I forgot that he has a blog!

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