Monthly Archives: December 2004

death by safety

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 December 15 by Anton

Independent Institute: History of Federal [drug] Regulation (cited by Sunni Maravillosa)

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how soon the inevitable?

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 December 15 by Anton

My One True Ex hears from her mother a rumor of an effort to “put the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress and the British Library on line”, and commands me to ask my Vast Network of Contacts … Continue reading →

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Argentine dialect?

Posted on Monday, 2004 December 13 by Anton

Mail through yahoo.com.ar yesterday carried the tag Ahora podés usar Yahoo! Messenger en tu Unifón . . . . Shouldn’t podés be puedes?

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QotD

Posted on Monday, 2004 December 13 by Anton

Acton: Many men have compressed their entire wisdom into portable aphorisms. Others have had it done for them. Epigraph to — what else? — a collection of excerpts from the writings of Lord Acton. I became curious as to when … Continue reading →

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linky goodness

Posted on Monday, 2004 December 13 by Anton

Robin Hanson: Is Fairness About Clear Fitness Signals? Ryan Sager: The Killing of Peter McWilliams Linda Schrock Taylor: Great Ideas of Homeschooling . . By the way, I recently tried to post a comment on an old entry, and ran into … Continue reading →

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approof of appudding

Posted on Sunday, 2004 December 12 by Anton

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

Posted on Saturday, 2004 December 11 by Anton

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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