The damned market, it just keeps getting in the way of progress! Which is why we must figure out ways to kill it. WE OWE IT TO OURSELVES TO SUFFER! BECAUSE SUFFERING IS WHAT TELLS US THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER! (h/t Terry H) **** update: Stop it! YOU’RE DESTROYING PROGRESS!

Blogosphere “heavy hitters” discuss the future of conservatism. I’m going to pause here in a few to watch it myself, but in advance of that, let me predict that “nanobot armies” and illegal immigrants have a better than 50-50 shot of getting a mention. “Classical liberalism”? Likely not — though it’ll be there, if only in spirit.

A new day is dawning, people. “New AG Appointee Advocated To Stifle Speech On Web”: The court has really struck down every government effort to try to regulate it. We tried with regard to pornography. It is gonna be a difficult thing, but it seems to me that if we can come up with reasonable restrictions, reasonable regulations in how people interact on the Internet, that is something that the

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Many Democrats, on the other hand, are all for it — though they are “quite relieved” that they are able to support it through a secret ballot. The irony would be dazzling, were Democrats capable of recognizing such things. But then, that would presuppose a recognition of equality that, to progressives, is an ideal — but one that requires some people to be more equal than others, if anything is

Great marketing strategy, lousy sales pitch: Local news reports from other gun shops across the country seem to indicate that a run on military-style semi-automatics and ammunition of all types may continue for months as long-time shooters and new gun purchasers stock up in preparation for what many expect to be one of the most divisive, anti-gun federal governments in years. I wonder if any of the ostentatiously outspoken “civil

The sacred and the profane. Buy it Now!

…I can certainly pretend I’ve never been a blogger. — Which works out fine, considering I’m sick and need a day off to recover anyway. Meantime, here are few odds and ends to consider as I lay congested and miserable on the couch, watching “Monk” reruns. 1. The WSJ on the Big 3: should the public pay pensions promised by companies who can’t deliver them? Answer: Does the Pope shit

Queens University calls these guardians of tolerance “student facilitators” — a title so perfectly Orwellian that, in all honesty, I can think of nothing more biting to add. So instead I’ll just take a moment to pay my last respects to the moribund ideal of free speech, then go and start crossing out all of Lenny’s bits from Of Mice and Men. You know, just to be on the safe

Not that it matters much what this fuck thinks — other than Obama’s background was supposed to endear him to our enemies in some ways (see, for instance, how Iran has claimed to embrace The One!) and allow him to open a dialogue. But for what it’s worth: Al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in