Monthly Archives: March 2004

i hate when that happens

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

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QotD

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

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utopia and a pony

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

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

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

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

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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