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I linked this piece in a comment yesterday, but it is such a brilliant essay that it deserves its own post—and deserves to be untarnished by my interpolations. Alas, that second bit just ain’t gonna happen, as interpolation to me is like catnip to a fat Tabby.  Cathy Young, “Enforcing Virtue” (Reason, March 2007 print edition): It’s the debate that won’t die: the endless face-off between conservatives and libertarians over

From Vincent Carroll: Earlier this year, a student at Rocky Mountain High School in Fort Collins approached Amy Oliver, the director of operations at the Independence Institute who hosts a radio talk show in northern Colorado. The student showed her a test question from a math class that read in part: “In 1988, there were 6.047 million people registered to vote in Florida. … The number of Democrats was 0.908

It’s hard to believe that a former Hollywood child star seems to have gone bad like this.  In any case, here’s a little advice for ya, Dave: Next time you’ve got a lid on you, you might want to think about it before you climb out of a car window in the middle of an intersection and start screaming at your wife.  Oh, right……..

From the Rocky Mountain News wire: Several dozen Muslim workers have quit their jobs at a Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Grand Island, Neb. because their prayer times weren’t accommodated. “They kind of issued the company an ultimatum,” said Dan Hoppes, president of Local 22 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. “They went in before the shift started (Monday) and said that they’d go unless they could

If anyone is still reading this trainwreck, please note that I’ll be posting very lightly over the next couple of days.  Tomorrow morning I travel south for a court date arising from my unfortunate run-ins with a certain former “you-knee-verse-it-tee” teacher (or, if you prefer, “non-tenured pee-ache-dee!”), so today I have to pore over old screen shots and the like.  I’ll be gone the entire day tomorrow. So, if some