Monthly Archives: March 2004

i hate when that happens

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 March 30 by Anton

Larry Trask, a well of linguistic erudition and good humor, has died.

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QotD

Posted on Sunday, 2004 March 28 by Anton

Tyler Cowen: The key thing that markets do is economize on the need for agreement.

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utopia and a pony

Posted on Sunday, 2004 March 21 by Anton

Micha Ghertner responds to the charge of libertarian utopianism: Neither Barnett nor Friedman exhibits the kind of wishful thinking that Belle Waring lampoons in her much cited blog post. If anything, they argue for just the opposite. It requires a … Continue reading →

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and now for some thrillin’ heroics

Posted on Friday, 2004 March 19 by Anton

PvP’s Brent and Jade discover Firefly (sequence of four strips). Speaking of webtoons, here’s libertarian (or is it paleocon?) propaganda from Dogpatch: Nip and Tuck

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green thumb

Posted on Thursday, 2004 March 18 by Anton

About two years ago I dumped some tangerine seeds in the flowerpots on my porch. Two sprouted; the saplings are over two feet tall – and now one of them is in bloom!

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shoulda been there, B

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 March 17 by Anton

Some months ago I started reading Pillars of Faith, a webtoon, without being aware that it’s a fan spinoff of – you guessed it – Buffy! It brings up some interesting questions that Buffy did not address.

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there must be a standard metaphor

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 March 17 by Anton

We locked you up in jail for 25 years and you were innocent all along? That’ll be £80,000 please (cited by Joshua Burton) One might be reminded of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, in reverse: there, the man interrogated by mistake got … Continue reading →

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