not too serious

Posted on Monday, 2003 July 14 by Anton

I was a bit alarmed to find “mail.thethirdreich.com” in my referral log! But it’s only a game.

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what, there is a Ninth Amendment?

Posted on Monday, 2003 July 14 by Anton

Randy Barnett sees something new in recent Supreme Court decisions:

. . . Justice Kennedy refused to rest abortion rights on a “right to privacy,” though this crucial move has been generally ignored. Instead he rested it on liberty, and explicitly on the Ninth Amendment:

Neither the Bill of Rights nor the specific practices of States at the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment marks the outer limits of the substantive sphere of liberty which the Fourteenth Amendment protects. See U.S. Const., Amend. 9.

Resting abortion rights on liberty, as opposed to privacy, was newsworthy, but I seemed to be among the only one to get the news. . . .

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Hoppe gets his

Posted on Monday, 2003 July 14 by Anton

Gene Callahan criticizes HH Hoppe’s immigration policy — or is ‘debunks’ a more fitting word?

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My Man Godfrey

Posted on Saturday, 2003 July 12 by Anton

I watched the above-entitled movie last night, and am scratching my head as to what other film had contaminated my memory of it. The wacky rich family in the other film had a bookish son with a morbid imagination, and mama’s pet ‘artist’ resembled Cesar Romero.

Too darn warm today. So what else is new?

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geography

Posted on Friday, 2003 July 11 by Anton

I’m working today in a skyscraper in Oakland. I can’t remember when I was on such a high floor on this side of the bay; I keep looking out the window and thinking “That can’t be right.”

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the muse

Posted on Thursday, 2003 July 10 by Anton

Wyman Brantley (who apparently noticed me on an INTP list) reports:

[Robert E] Howard said that the Conan stories came to him after a period of writer’s block, and that the stories went from brain to paper almost as if he were taking dictation.

I’ve had similar experiences, but my muse is more terse, dictating a total of nine words on the two occasions that I remember.

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relativity in everyday life

Posted on Thursday, 2003 July 10 by Anton

Very interesting thoughts on the Matrix series: Steven Chapman

2004 Oct 25: Strange: that item is dated 6/28/2003, but the same blog’s current page is dated April 30, 2002. Blogspot acting up again?

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