Rage Against The Routine

Entries from November 2007

Sometimes You Gotta Ask Yourself…

November 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Are you more racist, or more sexist?

The dozen or so Spelman College women had come together in a basement classroom, after hours, to hash over a choice unimaginable just a few generations back.
Fliers posted across campus summed up the thrust of their conversation: “Should you vote for Barack Obama because of your race, or should […]

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Tags: 2008 · Stupid

Voting In the Republican Primary

November 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments

So I’ve decided to vote in the New Jersey Republican primary in February. We have what’s known as an “open primary” in NJ, which means independents can vote in a party’s primary, but once they do they are considered registered to that party. So I’ll technically be a Republican after never before belonging […]

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Tags: Libertarianism · 2008

Libertarian Readings I

November 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Frederic Bastiat, from Selected Essays on Political Economy, published 1848.
If each man has the right to defend, even by force, his person, his liberty, and his property, several men have the right to get together, come to an understanding, and organize a collective force to provide regularly for this defense.
Collective right, then, has its principle, […]

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Tags: Libertarianism · Liberty · Economics

Long Time No See

November 27th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve been busy with work, getting my side business up and running, not to mention the holidays.. But I’m back, things are slackening off, and I’ll be posting semi-regularly again.
Since I know no one can live without my various pronouncements..

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Tags: Meta

Best. Correction. Evar.

November 13th, 2007 · No Comments

In a Nov. 13 story, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that Paris Hilton was praised by conservationists for highlighting the problem of binge-drinking elephants in northeastern India. Lori Berk, a publicist for Hilton, said she never made any comments about helping drunken elephants in India.
That one first sentence says so, so many hilarious and yet […]

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Tags: Media · Funny

Random Thought While Playing With My iPhone

November 13th, 2007 · No Comments

The first phone to have a touchscreen and play flash games is going to make bank. Why can’t my iPhone do this already? Is Adobe going to support iPhone or Android?

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Tags: Tech

The Real Gay Hating Theocrats

November 13th, 2007 · No Comments

They told me that if George W. Bush was elected, homosexuals would be persecuted, and they were right!
Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs during a private meeting at a peace conference, The Times has learnt.
Mohsen Yahyavi is the highest-ranked politician to admit that Iran believes […]

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Tags: Obvious · Islamists · Liberty

Radical Financial Planning

November 12th, 2007 · No Comments

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Tags: Funny · Economics

My Inner European

November 9th, 2007 · No Comments

This will be quite unsurprising to those who know me. Heh.

Your Inner European is Dutch!

Open minded and tolerant.
You’re up for just about anything.

Who’s Your Inner European?

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Tags: Obvious · Funny · Liberty

What Biased Media?

November 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

Move along. Nothing to see here.
The debate is over. A consensus has been reached. On global warming? No, on how Democrats are favored on television, radio and in the newspapers.
Just like so many reports before it, a joint survey by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, […]

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Tags: Obvious · Media · 2008

Obama’s Lesson

November 2nd, 2007 · 13 Comments

Obama gave a nice little lesson for a five year old.
[Obama] also suggested to the first-grader that wealthier people should help those who are less fortunate.
“We’ve got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money,” Obama said. “If you had a whole pizza, and your friend had […]

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Tags: 2008 · Economics