Archive for March, 2008

Squares at Two rooted V-squared

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Seems Adam got the ax. Well there’s really not much I can say that hasn’t already been covered in those massive comments.

Karen Pommeroy: This could be the death of an entire way of life, the end of an era…
Donnie: Why should we care?
Karen Pommeroy: Because the rabbits are us, Donnie.

What the fuck does that [...]

scraps

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

You know, sometimes there’s so much weirdness running through my brain that I’d love to share it all with you, but I don’t even know where to begin. It’s at these times that another You Tube find seems appropriate.
Metal, and 80’s metal in particular, seems to have become the topic of late. And having spent [...]

Clinton Endorses Bush

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

You know, they call Ohio a bellwether state. It’s a battleground state. It’s a state that knows how to pick a president.
– Hillary Clinton

Buckley the Georgist?

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Noted geolibertarian economist Fred Foldvary tells us that William F. Buckley understood the unique role that natural resources play in our political economy, though he lacked the will to make the case:

Buckley’s intellectual development was influenced strongly by the Georgist libertarians Albert Nock and Frank Chodorov. [...] Nock and Chodorov were free-marketeers, geolibertarians who recognized [...]

Touch the Glass

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Friday night was a real treat, as the phenomenal percussionist Evelyn Glennie performed a concerto for percussion and strings with the Nashville Symphony. It was an interesting piece, working in three movements — wood, metal, and skin, each focused around instruments of the named varieties. What I didn’t realize until a friend mentioned it during [...]