WTF!

I can’t believe that I live in a country where the Supreme Court, the highest judicial body in the land, says THIS.
How f**king primitive do you have to be to say that a woman cannot be a rape victim just because she is promiscuous?
The next box on the same page about women who are married [...]

Going Green

I don’t usually do all that much political activism for any specific causes, but I think this is worth supporting.
Also, I needed a theme where my twitter feed was more prominent .
On an unrelated note, people seem to have NO idea what I’m talking about when I say libertarian. Or rather, they get [...]

Quote of the Week: Statutory Warning:Smoking is…

“This broken wreck of a man’s failure to win any more than a pathetic fourteen Olympic gold medals (so far) is a terrifying warning of the horrific damage that cannabis can do to someone’s health—and a powerful reminder of just how sensible the drug laws really are.”
–Andrew Stuttaford at The Corner

Politics,Popularity and Fanaticism

This is an old post from Overcoming Bias, but it’s been a while since I’ve read something this well-written and coherent and NEW. It’s been a draft for a while now, and I was planning on putting this up before the US Election got over, but I don’t really think I have anything to add [...]

Quote of the Week:Civil Disobedience

“Every alcoholic beverage I consume under the age of twenty-one has been a conscious act of civil disobedience. Dissent, not reckless partying!”
–some random chick on a libertarian group in Facebook.
Yes, it applies right now. Will probably post another one sooner than a week.

More on the Markets

Warren Buffett gives reasonable, and frankly obvious, advice. Too bad it only applies to people who have enough money saved up (and coming in) that they don’t have to worry about how to survive over the next couple of months.
Hilarious and pointed article at The Onion: the next bubble.
Bad news for the markets is good [...]

Marginal Revolution on Why Libertarians should vote for Obama

Alex Tabarrok, not Tyler Cowen, and more…”rhetoric-filled” than the vast majority of their posts. But still worth a read.
Why Libertarians Should Vote for Obama (1)
First, war.  War is the antithesis of the libertarian philosophy of consent, voluntarism and trade.  With every war in American history Leviathan has grown larger and our liberties have withered.  War [...]

On Abortion

As a libertarian, I should already know what my position on this issue should be, but at least in this case it doesn’t seem that easy. Where “this case” refers to the Niketa Mehta case. Mostly because I see no good reason why this to-be child should be aborted -and at over 20 weeks it [...]

“It’s the Economy, Stupid!”

And here’s PROOF!!!
From Greg Mankiw’s (Excellent) Blog

Forecasting Presidential Elections

From Statistical Modeling….

Redirect: on Reservations

To The Slow Painful Death of Secularism, mostly because I’ve left a pretty huge comment there, in response to another even larger comment. The post isn’t actually as dramatic as the title sounds, just the prestidigitator expressing his surprise and dismay in a few short paragraphs over the new reservations policy, and the remarks of a [...]