Monthly Archives: December 2002

selective historians

When Greece won independence from Turkey, romantic foreigners set about reshaping it to a Classical ideal; among other things they destroyed any nonclassical buildings on the Acropolis, which was most of them, because the Acropolis was once a living town. … Continue reading

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the freedom to come and go

Plaintiff’s Consolidated Opposition to Defendants’ Motions to Dismiss in Gilmore v Ashcroft. Related items here. John Gilmore is challenging the secret regulation which supposedly requires passengers to either show an official annotated photograph (internal passport) or submit to search. As … Continue reading

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crimes against celluloid

Here in the ogre’s cave we get only a few television channels. One of them shows, each weekend, an astonishingly bad movie; not merely the dull-witted clutter that fills up the hours between infomercials for other stations, but atrocities approaching … Continue reading

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how sane!

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gun control, a prerequisite to genocide

Kopel, Gallant & Eisen on Uganda & Gun Control on National Review Online

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the tale of the crazed Kiwi

From Michael Jennings, “how the corporate downsizing of AOL Time Warner led to a mad New Zealander making three movies of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.” But, for now, some stories can have happy endings. (At least one … Continue reading

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the steamroller

I wouldn’t have thought the EU could be so crude – yet. Laws were being forced through the Polish Parliament, at the behest of the EU . . . . Perhaps the most insidious new provision in the Polish Constitution is that a … Continue reading

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