Travis found a choice rant by Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek:
But the bluest blue-state left-“liberal” atheist oughtn’t be too quick with the self-congratulatory praise of his or her own rational faculties. Most left-liberals are pure creationists when it comes to society and social order. For them, government is the creator of order . . . .
I trust you sha’n’t be shocked to know that my social life is dead enough to drive me to sign up on a matchmaking website. It’s rather entertaining, actually.
I am amazed (and a wee bit dismayed) that only two or three of my top twenty matches are over thirty. And now it strikes me that the criterion questions don’t mention age. Not that I have any objection to squiring a lass of 19 summers, but if she has a problem with 25 years’ difference it would be good to know in advance.
The profiler says of me:
Compared to males his age:
- He’s more scientific
- He’s more mathematical
- He’s more capitalistic
- He’s more introverted
- He’s more independent
- He’s more progressive
- He’s more literary
Matt Smith on confused telecoms policy in San Francisco. So that’s why I so often get bad connections there!
Dick Fischbeck has a new website for a kind of structure that he calls Randome, formed of overlapping shallow cones.
Ballada o Soldate (1959). A Russian soldier wins a brief leave to go visit his mother, and has encounters and mishaps on the way. A simple tale, gorgeously shot.
Anatomy of a Murder (1959). Sex, violence and cross-examination. Includes George C Scott younger than I had seen him. — The defendant, who saw action in Korea, describes the weapon as “a war souvenir, a Luger.” Were Lugers used much in Korea?
Beany and Cecil (1959). I was curious about this tv cartoon partly because it’s by Bob Clampett, creator of Daffy Duck; and partly because some of Larry Niven’s fiction implies that it will be remembered for centuries.
Well, that was a waste of ten minutes.
Operation Petticoat (1959), a likable war comedy.
At Home with the Braithwates (2000), tv series about a housewife breaking out. There are some amusing moments, but not enough novelty to get me to finish the second hour.
Got a spam today (or rather almost got it: Pobox’s filter rejected it) whose Subject line is:
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It’s hard to believe that this mutilated passage gets through filters any better than the un-mutilated version. It’s like covering a tank with bushes and then covering the bushes with desert camouflage.