Monday
iPad Review
I bought one ten days ago. It's really cool, but I'm not convinced it's worth
the price. It doesn't do one key thing that I was told it would do (see below),
but it does a lot of neat stuff.
Eric Scheske
Max's First Lions Game
-- Mobile post
Something for Sunday Morning
"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion,
or corruption of that which has substance."
Blessed Cardinal Newman
The Evening Eudemon
In case you missed it:
"Alan Greenspan spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations earlier today, and
what was his advice? That central bankers should be doing what these columns,
among others, have been rattling on about, namely that they should be paying
attention to gold. “Fiat money has
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From The Economist. On the dispute about whether to let the rich retain their
tax cuts:
"The irony in this drama is that the money at stake is, in the larger scheme,
trivial. Raising taxes on the top 2% of households, as Mr Obama proposes, would
bring in $34
Friday
Drunk and Driven
I'm thinking about becoming an alcoholic. Beer and wine are my favorites, so
I'll drink a lot of them. I don't like hard liquor, but I'll drink it if that
what it takes to realize my ambition. Unlike some
The Evening Eudemon
> Someone forgot to tell gold to crash today. The spot price for the next true
currency, and self-imposed non-Fiat standard, was at $1,277, a fresh all time
high, as it prepares to take out the stops at $1,280, which would send it
promptly over $1,
Site
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
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, extravagant, inefficient,