1st case? I guess Al Gore has never been to a psychiatrist…
From the Aussie-based heraldsun:
Writing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of our Royal Children’s Hospital say this delusion was a “previously unreported phenomenon”.
“A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at Royal Children’s Hospital [...]
Whenever I hear the term “social justice”, I think of a direct and necessary absence of individual justice. It’s a sick visceral reaction to a sick erroneous concept.
On the subject, Rhode Island’s free market think tank, the Ocean State Policy Research Institute, wrote one of the best op-eds I’ve read in the last month or [...]
Although it’s quite difficult to identify what she stands for - her first book, the populist No Logo, rallied against the ubiquity of advertising, and her latest, The Shock Doctrine, maligns Milton Friedman and free-market economics by association (yes, oddly enough, by association) - assuming she has some, I’m fairly certain I loathe the ideals [...]
For me, reason.tv is the new Penn & Teller: Bullshit!. I love it. Last week, its showcase - The Drew Carey Project - produced the 7+ minute video: Mexicans and Machines: Why it’s time to lay off NAFTA.
For those with less than 7 minutes to spare, Carey pushes the protectionist credo (against NAFTA, “cheap labor” [...]
The second NoFx song in my NLADP series (first one here), this one arguing against marijuana prohibition via the principles of self-ownership and personal autonomy. Lyrical excerpt below:
Why be sad when happiness can be bought for a little more then free
Modern day prohibition
Are we men? Are we children?
At what age can I choose how to [...]
A story that, in the last few days, has spread like fire throughout an otherwise lackluster Chicago music scene…(If myspace is any indication, I received more than 15 bulletins in a span of 24 hours.)
The problem/regulatory motivation. From the Chicago Tribune:
Five years after the E2 nightclub disaster that left 21 people dead in a stampede, [...]
Something I didn’t notice my first time in Hobby…
At baggage claim there are multiple signs (see below) warning travelers of “illegal operators”, that one ought to “refuse offers for transportation” from these individuals.
Never having seen anything like this before, I get the idea that Houston has a problem with taxi-disguised kidnappers or something.
I mean, the [...]
From citizen-times.com, a story of the feds busting up an illegal moonshine distillery in the south-east boonies:
Maggie Valley moonshine legend Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton is in jail again after authorities in east Tennessee said they uncovered a large whiskey distillery housed in a barn near his home. He also faces charges coming from a Monday seizure [...]
Virginia Postrel, author of The Future and Its Enemies–one of my favorite pieces of political nonfiction–is featured in reason.tv’s latest video entitled Organ Transplants: Kidneys for Sale (I had a blog post with the same subtitle here).
‘What’d she do–donate her kidney?’
Why yes she did! In order to save an ally’s life. In order to [...]
For those of you who didn’t know, I’m living in Houston now. Tonight will be two weeks. Woo-wee, Texas!
Anyhow, over the weekend, my roommate and I drove a couple hours to Austin to go to a few bars and check out the atmosphere of SXSW. I wasn’t really interested in any of the bands [...]
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