August 2010

Mimi & Eunice: For the Children

by Nina Paley August 25, 2010

. . . → Read More: For the Children

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Weigel’s Parallax View

by Wirkman Virkkala August 24, 2010

David Weigel, late of the Washington Post‘s blog, now writes for Slate, where he posted, yesterday, about a possible “purge” at the Cato Institute. Personnel changes at Cato are of only scant interest to those not employed by Cato (or so it should be, partisan obsessions aside), but something Weigel wrote deserves attention:

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Glenn Beck Is a Statist, Not a Libertarian

by Jacob Huebert August 24, 2010

At the beginning of his show this morning, Glenn Beck started ripping into the imam that all the talk-radio hosts love to hate, because the imam has (correctly) pointed out that the U.S. has killed many more innocent non-Muslims than al-Qaeda has. Beck went on to defend the U.S. embargo against Iraq that killed hundreds [...]

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Tasers don’t kill people

by Brian Martinez August 23, 2010

But cops armed with Tasers sure as hell do: The Denver coroner has ruled that the July 9 death of an inmate at the new jail was the result of homicide. Marvin Booker was being processed on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia when he got into a scuffle with jail deputies. He was [...]

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Another U.S.-Inflicted “Ground Zero” in Pakistan

by William N. Grigg August 23, 2010

If opinion polls are reliable at all, most Americans are too enthralled by the manufactured outrage over the so-called Ground Zero Mosque to notice that the government claiming to represent them just massacred, via remote-controlled drone, at least twenty innocent people in Pakistan. Several of those killed in the attack were children whose lives were [...]

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Rachel Maddow the Accidental Libertarian

by Matt Mortellaro August 21, 2010

I just recently watched The Daily Show‘s interview of Rachel Maddow from last April (embedded below) and couldn’t help but comment. She proposed two rules for public discourse: 1. “Don’t lie” and 2. “Don’t threaten to shoot people or encourage the shooting of people.” I was surprised – Maddow and I rarely end up in [...]

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Mimi & Eunice: Political Leanings

by Nina Paley August 20, 2010

[This strip isn't about intellectual property, but it does make an amusing observation in response to how Stephan described Nina. -- GAP] I’m not a Libertarian, but I am Libertarian-leaning. *** This is a syndicated post, which originally appeared at Mimi and Eunice. View original post.

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