Category Archives: politics

approof of appudding

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

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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if only you believed in miracles

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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guess what

Travis doesn’t like “bioethicists” either.

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there are things I’d rather have than WiFi

Matt Smith on confused telecoms policy in San Francisco. So that’s why I so often get bad connections there!

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go read

Radley Balko: Who Is Being ‘Unserious’ on the Terror War? They hate our policies, not our freedom The Case for a Partitioned Iraq

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pointless papers please

I[dentifying]D[ocument]s and the illusion of security, op-ed by Bruce Schneier. Identification and profiling don’t provide very good security, and they do so at an enormous cost. Dropping ID checks completely, and engaging in random screening where appropriate, is a far … Continue reading

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