- Matt Welch, of Reason fame, writes about how MADD is using the death of Angels’ pitcher Nick Adenhart to promote their neo-prohibitionist agenda. Welch does a good job of both shaming MADD and picking apart the logic of their legislation.
- Sarah Nelson at the Daily Beast asks, “Is Amazon.com homophobic?” The answer: Who cares?
- MyCongressmanSucks.com will send fake rubber dog poop to Nancy Pelosi on your behalf.
- Ten Economists and what they think about the administration’s economic policy. Mostly left-wingers, but they’re also some of the biggest critics.
- I think many people would criticize Justice Thomas for his comment about “proliferation of rights,” but really what he’s talking about are positive rights, the kind that form a basis for all sorts of entitlement programs, not the negative rights that were the basis for, you know, a free society.
- Gun sales are on the rise. Want to guess why?
- Oh, and those bailouts are definitely working…
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Link-a-palooza
April 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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Judge Alex Kozinski
June 14, 2008 · 1 Comment
“Sex on the Internet?,” they all said. “That’ll never make any money.” But computer-geek-turned-entrepreneur Gary Kremen knew an opportunity when he saw it. The year was 1994; domain names were free for the asking, and it would be several years yet before Henry Blodget and hordes of eager NASDAQ day traders would turn the Internet into the Dutch tulip craze of our times. With a quick e-mail to the domain name registrar Network Solutions, Kremen became the proud owner of sex.com. He registered the name to his business, Online Classifieds, and listed himself as the contact.
Kremen v. Cohen, 337 F.3d 1024, 1026 (9th Cir. 2003).
The above is the opening paragraph of a Ninth Circuit opinion authored by now-Chief Judge Alex Kozinski; a favorite among libertarians and good-humored legal scholars alike.
As part of a rotation where appeals court judges are occasionally assigned to criminal trials, Kozinski was slated to preside over the federal obscenity trial of “shock-porn” filmmaker Ira Isaacs. The charges brought are for distributing pornography depicting bestiality, defecation, and probably a myriad other forms of kink (the case was brought after pressure was put on the DoJ by the Fundies).
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Linkfest 2008
June 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment
- John McCain has issues with the Boumediene decision. He claims that our national security depends upon the government’s ability to imprison people indefinitely without charge or trial.
- Exxon is getting out of the retail gas business, citing the difficulty of turning a profit.
- Ireland rejected the Lisbon treaty in their recent referendum.
- Pluto has given a name to a new class of quasi-planets.
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Drinking Beer Can Save Your Life
June 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment
At least, according to a British tabloid… I for one will be taking precautions of this nature regularly from now on.
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While I’m Busy…
May 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment
While I’m busy working on some stuff for school, here is my candidate for creepiest/funniest campaign-related video:
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Private Retirement Savings
April 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Just a quick note for people who think that privatizing Social Security is an awful idea: Privatized retirement savings have been very successful in El Salvador for a decade now. I believe that Chile also has benefited.
Let us remember, people, that it is your money. Why let the government take it and then tell you how and when you can have it?
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