It’s Been Real

I hope everyone enjoyed the highs and lows of this discussion, but all good things come to an end. We’d like to thank all of you for your time, thoughts, and input, even when, or rather, especially when it got heated. But there’s some good (ed – ????) news, so turn that frown upside down. [...]

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Everyone’s Self-Interested

Mother Jones reports that Humbolt County, California, home to prolific marijuana growing, now has some great new bumper stickers. Recently, “Keep Pot Illegal” bumper stickers have been seen on cars around the county. In chat rooms and on blogs, anonymous writers predict that tobacco companies will crush small farmers and take marijuana production to the [...]

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Brief Thoughts

I GIS’d ’briefs’ to try to get an image for the links header today. I won’t make that mistake again. To clear my mind, I had to rewatch this video. On to the links: Friend of the Blog Tate Watkins in the Christian Science Monitor on the evils of foreign ”aid”. Free speech/religious hatred watch: Southpark creators Matt [...]

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Happy Earth Day

Despite being an evil capitalist souless rape-machine, I do love me some Earth. So happy Earth Day, and please browse through Don Boudreaux and Russ Roberts’ series Cleaned by Capitalism over at the Cafe. Also, if you really want, celebrate with whatever this guy has. I can’t decide if it’s natural or man-made, but it [...]

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Amen

Radley Balko’s response to Mori Dinauer’s post is so good it’s worth quoting in full. Testify: “The American Prospect’s Mori Dinauer is just a hair off in this post. I don’t promote government failure, I expect it. And my expectations are met fairly often. What I promote is the idea that more people share my expectations, so fewer people are [...]

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On The Twentieth of April

My little sister attends the University of Vermont, and today she noted she was “one of three people at UVM not excited about the date“. I share her ambivalence.

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Photo of the … eh whenever I feel like it.

I don’t have a decent body of work yet, so no photo-of-the-day, but it can flesh out some less writing-intensive periods. These little things are the copper insides of a stripping plate, in a column or ‘beer still’ at the Four Roses bourbon distillery in Lawerenceburg, Kentucky.

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Reconcile

Reason.tv released this short video on marijuana legalization. My question for pro-legalization liberals: Can you reconcile legalization with food regulation? My contention is that centrists (of both parties) favor regulations that advance their desired world, without reference to the logical consistencies and assumptions underling their imagined preferences. That is, their policy preferences are arbitrary bullshit.

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New Feature – Photography

I bought myself a nice digital camera, and have fallen back in love with my old girlfriend, photography. I hope y’all enjoy the recurring feature. Four Roses Bourbon Barrel. Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.

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Linkgasm

I’ll be out of town for a few days, but here’s some for body and mind. DC Freedom 5K – for area runners, come out, have a great time, and mingle with other freedom loving folks. I’ll be there volunteering, so say hi. April 17th. Tate confronts the ugly truth that foreign aid hurts more than [...]

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