Here's something to think about

If you like that song, the guy wants you to do something.

Here's a fun interview of Doug Casey

by the Whiskey and Gunpowder boys: Anarchy Is the Solution to the Evil Idiocy of the State. And here's an interview of him and Tom Woods:



Update: here's a bit from Anarchy, Part II:

Doug: I find the concept of a necessary evil rather repugnant. It’s largely sophistry, usually trotted out to justify some type of criminality. Can anything that’s evil really be necessary? And can anything that’s necessary really be evil?

Entirely apart from that, people say the state is necessary because that’s all they’ve ever known. But it’s not, in fact, part of the cosmic firmament. There have been times and places in history when central authority was so distant, or negligent, that the people did function — and prosper — in what was essentially a functioning anarchy.

Yup

Believers need to grapple with this

Why I am no longer a Christian.

David Friedman praises his father, Milton's, childrearing methods

This speech was given as David accepted the Goldwater Award for his father in 1997. Milton was apparently unable to make it for health reasons, though he did call in. The award ceremony was MC'ed by US Rep (R, OK) J.C. Watts, who did a wonderful speech that I only wish were more true than it is, as did Arnold Schwartzenegger, and there is a good video of Milton himself on the c-span clip.

But none of it holds a candle to David's stories of growing up as Milton Friedman's son. The guy got fathering right.

I have David's book, Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life. It reads like he talks: witty, mischievous, informative.

Here is a very clear statement of the Objectivist Credo

The context is a debate between two Objectivists and two Canadian Socialists. (The Objectivists are Canadian as well, but Peikoff was living in NYC at the time and I think he lives in California now. I think he must have American citizenship, but I haven't heard about that.)

This is really important

And it doesn't end with infancy.

Hey! One of the Hot Facts Girls is doing a series on

Norse Mythology! Very cool. Here's the first video. I'd like to hear some opinions about the series from greater experts than I. I got all my info from Magnus Magnusson. I both read the book and watched the twelve hour documentary series (twice).

I probably should have linked the Wikipedia page.

So... I actually have more important things to talk about, but enjoy a little fluff after that last hit. (If my idioms seem vague, well... just take 'em however you want.)

Here are two of Stefan Molyneux's videos

that I think are particularly hard hitting:


An internet aquaintance has translated this into Finnish. I'm working on reading that.

Update: I just replaced that version with the one with Chinese subtitles.

Here's the other one:



Stef misspeaks Joe Stack's name a couple times. I wonder if he was making a freudian connection with Richard Speck on the first one. No guesses on the later one.

I like this guy

I like Marc Stevens too. Here he is reading from Lysander Spooner's No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority:

I'll be headed down to OK for Grandma's funeral tomorrow

But I felt I had to point out this incredibly important thing my daughter drew my attention to tonight:

THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN CROSS DRESSER - PART 1 - watch more funny videos

Anybody who watches this and doesn't bitch about it

is going straight to Hell!