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Luddites, self check-outs, and Henry Hazlitt

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 Day After Tommorrow…with plants”

Err-The Happening.
Laughable marketing strategy. The previews have that cliché, scary movie-voice quivering:
From Director M. Night Shyamalan comes his first R-rated film.
Haha. Just reading it makes me laugh. But I suppose 6th graders will be impressed.
Rumor is the content mirrors the marketing.
Extremism in Defense of Liberty dismisses it as
nothing more than a piece of crass, anti-humanist [...]

The difference between Ted Kaczynski and I

Some thoughts I wrote down on Sunday’s flight back from SamSphere Kansas…
The first time I ever flew on a plane I was 22. Most people would find this fact rather odd. Yes, I agree. I’ve led a fairly grounded early life…arguably insular. Part of the reason, I suppose, lies in my parents. They don’t fly. [...]


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