Here is Patterico’s latest, which posits additional hypotheticals in an effort to show how intent is necessarily influenced by convention, the idea being that a knowledge of convention must perforce manifest itself in intent. Which, of course it can — but at the same time, it doesn’t necessarily have to, or else conventions would never change, given that very rarely would one ever find himself in a situation to intend

The argument that an increased federal involvement in the health care industry will over time lead to ever more intrusive regulations on our bodies “for our own good” is one I’ve been making for years now. For my troubles, I’ve been called “paranoid” and “foaming” — and been accused of backing the kind of dogmatic libertarianism that would allow businesses to poison customers while the market sorted things out. Of

Mock draft (without trades). I expect several teams to move up and down in the first round. However, for the purposes of this mock, I’ll just pretend that won’t happen. Feedback welcome.

Never talk about never talking about Fight Club, lest somebody figures out that all your talk about not talking about Fight Club proves that there is, in fact, a Fight Club. No cups / bras. You can slap, but only if the slap is accompanied by the interjection, “You are sooo not fabulous!” “The third rule of Fight Club is no salty foods. BECAUSE OF THE (POTENTIAL FOR) HEART DISEASE!”

Is it me, or does it seem like many “attacks” on “liberals” these days are coming not exclusively from bitter clinging Jesusfluffers, as the left would have you believe (and mark my words: this administration is looking for better ways to silence the opposition, now that the cries of “racism” and “hate” have become diluted by overuse and so have lost much of their power), but rather from libertarians and

— to which protein wisdom confidently responds, “Oh, I rather think such a name change highly unlikely at this point, what with all the money we’ve spent printing forms and such. “Although I will concede that, from so ridiculous a premise, Mr Rahn does manage to make some nice points…”

I leave very early in the morning Friday (more like late tonight, if you’re a bar or club dweller) to head off to Chicago. I’ll be there until Monday. Looks like we’re going to have a meet-up with a few folks who can make it tomorrow night — likely at a place called Emmett’s on Milwaukee Ave. We’ll also be going out to dinner somewhere on Sunday evening. If you’d

Heartening? Or self-defeating. Depends on whether or not your are an OUTLAW or a “pragmatist”, I guess. From the Hill: The Tea Party is hosting a Tax Day rally on Thursday in Washington, but the Republicans leaders in the House and Senate are not invited. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.), House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.)

Just another example of our President treating our allies shabbily, while rushing to coddle our enemies in the misguided notion that they will respond to anything other than absolute strength, both militarily, of conviction, and of will. (h/t Bob Reed)