Oooops! Radio Mix-up
To those of you who tried to listen in on the radio interview I blogged about here, my apologies: I mis-typed the time. It was at 1:30 p.m., not 1 p.m. Ooops! Sorry about that.
Iraqi Parliament approves partial cabinet
Reports say that Iraq’s Parliament has approved 27 actual ministers of less contentious ministries and approved “acting” ministers to the important and highly controversial ones. Oddly, (or not?) over a third of Iraqi MPs were not present for the vote according to the AP, which reports that a show of hands vote on the cabinet [...]
‘Happy Abu Ghraib Day’
[H]ow far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? – Gen. Dwight Eisenhower Arthur Silber documents the mass scamper over the cliff of civilization. A sample (and hardly the worst) from Rush Limbaugh’s show of April 26: CALLER: How you doing Rush? RUSH: Pretty good, Kevin. CALLER: [...]
With the Radio On …
I’ve overcome my aversion to doing radio sufficiently to schedule two upcoming interviews: a half hour on Cincinnati’s WAIF-FM, this Thursday at 1 p.m. (you can listen live), and a full hour with the incomparable Scott Horton on Saturday at 1 p.m. [Note: We're talking Pacific Standard Time, of course.] In the printed media, check [...]
No Peaking
People are getting worked up about peak oil theory. I’ll reply to some of the deluge of mail in the next day or two but first, three things: (1) Lawnorder, the blogger at Daily Kos who I wrote about in “Oil and Instinct,” has written a follow-up posting (“Peak Oil Myth and the Easter Island [...]
In case you think Yaron Brook is unrepresentative of the dork death cult known as Objectivism, here’s my conversation with Robert Cons, Objectivist: (unedited, all emphasis original): CONS: Any person who asks, “What is Objectivism?”, should do a little reading and crucial thinking. To start with I suggest he read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, The [...]
