Author Archives: Anton

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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like illiteracy is a kind of literacy

Another thing I wouldn’t mind hearing less of: the word infamous used as an emphatic synonym for famous.

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wacky microgravity tricks

Does this really work?

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