Monthly Archives: August 2002

everyone knows they’re all alike anyway

Posted on Sunday, 2002 August 11 by Anton

Last fall, as war was brewing, some of us libertoonians expressed distaste for bombing Afghanistan, on the grounds that bombing puts the same risk on people who have done nothing to support the Taliban as on its backers and goons. … Continue reading →

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us and them

Posted on Sunday, 2002 August 11 by Anton

Insta observes that “the left looks for heretics and the right looks for converts”. Which made me think of a certain blowhard who likes to explain that we libertarians (real ones, anyway; most ‘libertarians’ are really crypto-totalitarians, you know) are … Continue reading →

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they just fade away

Posted on Sunday, 2002 August 11 by Anton

Raphael Carter’s Honeyguide is one of the granddaddies of weblogs. Why hasn’t it been updated since April?

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I’m just askin’

Posted on Saturday, 2002 August 10 by Anton

Has anyone ever put a suicide note in a blog, fanzine, Usenet or the like?

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Deena Gilbey’s visa

Posted on Saturday, 2002 August 10 by Anton

Mark Steyn puts the INS on the carpet. (Link from Iain Murray.) The lesson, boys and girls, is this: When you grant the power to do something, you grant the power to do it wrong; and the more complicated the … Continue reading →

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size did matter

Posted on Thursday, 2002 August 08 by Anton

. . to Marie-Antoinette. Hm. Of course The Saga of Burnt Njal was kicked off by a similar incompatibility.

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“a pack, not a herd”

Posted on Thursday, 2002 August 08 by Anton

Duncan Frissell: On September 11th, our president could have gone on national TV and said, “I call upon all armed citizens to load their weapons, and go outside to secure their communities against terrorists. Under the emergency powers granted to … Continue reading →

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