This one calls itself Public Notice. So far, Source Watch has nothing to say about them (or maybe I just don’t know how to navigate Source Watch). Their rhetorical spin could perhaps be called piig-baiting, but I call it civil-servant-bashing. Keep the aspidistra flying!

As has become my habit, I again blew way past the character maximum for blog comments. This is a response to Winton Bates’ comment of 29 August, 2010 21:32 on this blog. On first inspection of the above comment I was half wondering whether Lin Osrom was short for Elinor Ostrom, and to my delight…

The following is intended as a comment to Winton Bates’ post titled Are Americans pessimistic about the prospects for the next generation? Speaking as a ‘Generation X’ American (born 1965) I’m inclined to believe that (1) my generation’s coming-of-age years occurred during that ratcheting-down of working class expectations called Reaganomics, (2) future generations can expect…

Thick individualism as I intend to formulate it is not exactly the same thing as thick libertarianism. Of course I don’t regard individualism as exactly synonymous with libertarianism. Libertarianism, both thick and thin, it seems, is anti-government first and pro-individual second. Another reason I tend to distance myself from libertarianism is because while libertarianism draws…

Market anarchy means anarchy (i.e. freedom) for the market. Real anarchy means freedom for the people, which means, among other things, freedom from the market. If the market enjoys freedom to find its equilibrium, that doesn’t help me if the equilibrium price of my talents happens to fall short of the equilibrium price of my…

I’m not the religious type. If anything, I’m the irreligious type. I definitely do not harbor a theistic viewpoint. ‘No gods, no masters,’ etc. In spite of all this, I have a tendency to think in terms of a supposed dichotomy between the categories of ‘sacred’ and ‘profane.’ I’ve been meaning for a while to…

In a market economy you have to market yourself. That, for me, is the single most compelling argument against market economics. The fact is, some of us detest everything about sales, marketing and promotion. As Killer says, “The present economy is organized to produce a considerable amount of crap that wouldn’t be needed in a…

When deciding whether one has common cause with movements like ‘market socialism’ or ‘free-market anticapitalism,’ it makes sense to figure out just what it is that these people mean by ‘market.’ What are the essential properties of the market mechanism? What about strong efficiency? Is transparency a necessary condition for efficiency? If it is, there…

I’ve added a blogroll of sorts to this blog. The positioning and coloring is based on the ‘political compass‘ displayed in the upper left corner. The coloring is copied directly from the political compass for the four corners, and RGB-interpolated for the other five positions in my 3×3 grid. The left column of my 3×3…

Or it could be the fog. Morning of Thursday July 15, 2010 was hopping for ATSC (i.e. DTV) DX-ing from my QTH north of Detroit. Picked up the following stations: 11 WTOL Toledo CBS (+ 11.2 ‘News 11’) 15 → 5 WEWS ABC Cleveland 17 → 3 WKYC Cleveland NBC (+ 3.2 weather radar) 23…