Monthly Archives: December 2005

humour me

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 December 13 by Anton

I’m more phlegmatic this week than usual, har har.

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that’s one big ad

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 December 13 by Anton

words fail me. (cited here almost five months ago)

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small tragedies

Posted on Sunday, 2005 December 11 by Anton

One of the sickening things about this war is watching people who used to call themselves libertarians go out of their way to sweep state abuses under a rug of narrow legalism. The latest example to get my attention is … Continue reading →

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social meals

Posted on Saturday, 2005 December 10 by Anton

City Journal Autumn 2002 | The Starving Criminal by Theodore Dalrymple It is the breakdown of the family structure – a breakdown so complete that mothers do not consider it part of their duty to feed their own children once … Continue reading →

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did Piaget cover kittens?

Posted on Saturday, 2005 December 10 by Anton

Pillow has a new trick: when he wants me to play with him, he approaches my chair and taps at my waist or elbow. A bit of laser-chasing satisfies him for a little while.

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another one

Posted on Saturday, 2005 December 10 by Anton

Everyone’s doing it, and now David Friedman is doing it. What’s wild is that my bookmark chooser showed me his home page, with a prominent link to “My New Blog”, about eleven hours after his first post.

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education is for whom?

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 December 06 by Anton

Is education a public good? Does someone else’s learning algebra or Shakespeare make you better off? Well, there are network externalities — in reading this you benefit not only from my learning but from that of anyone from whom I’ve … Continue reading →

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