Angie Schultz calls my attention to James Lileks on Star Trek. I have to disagree with him on this point:
[The Borg] were joyless cyborgs intent on crushing all cultural differences. They were the Republicans!
The Borg are utterly egalitarian, and utterly conformist in the name of diversity (“We will add your uniqueness to our own”); seems to me there’s another gang of thieves who fit the metaphor slightly better.
Unsurprisingly, Bruce Schneier (who travels much more than I do) is also fed up at having drones demand his documents at every turn in the name of “security”.
I was a bit alarmed to find “mail.thethirdreich.com” in my referral log! But it’s only a game.
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. . . .
Gene Callahan criticizes HH Hoppe’s immigration policy — or is ‘debunks’ a more fitting word?
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?
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.”