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Due to the exigencies of life, I failed to renew my domain registration. Result: The site was taken off the server. I promptly renewed at that point, but readers might be experiencing ongoing problems for the next couple of days as their "cookies" re-set (or some such thing)

Thursday

From the Notebooks I've long loathed the term "wage slave." If you're getting paid and you have the option of terminating your employment, you're not a slave. Granted, the term "option" can be tricky to apply, but for starters, if

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Albert Jay Nock and the Libertarian Tradition - Jeff Riggenbach - Mises Daily http://mises.org/daily/4689 The more he read about history, for example, the more he noticed that, as he later put it, “the State is the poorest instrument imaginable for improving human society”; it is “slow,

Wednesday

Those Crazy Greeks! Musings: Government has an impact on society, which is why you want to limit government. Due to human cupidity, it's impossible to imagine any expansive government that doesn't have an adverse effect on society and culture. In America, I believe democracy has shortened

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Yuck President Barack Obama is coming out with a post-election book: a picture book for children called “Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters,” Random House announced today. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/09/14/obama-pens-a-childrens-book/?mod=e2tw

Tuesday

The Matrix Miscellany I always enjoy the last page of New York Magazine: The Approval Matrix. Things I learned from The AM for 8/30/10 [http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/67619/]: There's going to be an American remake of the BBC's Being Human, in

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"Today we get to choose a political party likeÂ cattle at the ChicagoÂ stockyards get to choose a chute." http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/politics/

Monday

Lions and Economics First Armando Galarraga gets screwed out of a perfect game [http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/37479309/ns/sports-baseball/], and now the Lions get screwed out of a victory [http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Video-Controversial-rule-strips-Lions-of-first-?urn=nfl-269035] . I swear, nobody likes Detroit and the

Something for Sunday Morning

“Meekness above all makes men masters of themselves.” St. Thomas Aquinas

Friday

Man, brutal week. I think the stress and pressure at the office is going to kill me . . . because it's crippling my drinking time: > Longitudinal studies have consistently shown that people who don't consume any alcohol at all tend to die before people who do. At