Comments on: The libertarian method

By: mikefromtexas

mikefromtexas — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:18:42 +0000

Anyone interested in an actual ticket stub from a Rush concert in 1975? Yeah, I know, I’m an old fart. But the stub is legit.

By: Danny Shahar

Danny Shahar — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:06:28 +0000

Incidentally, I'm a libertarian and I've just had a paper on the ethical dimensions of climate change accepted for publication in The Independent Review (a peer-reviewed academic journal mainly oriented towards a free-market audience). In it, I argue that many libertarians have done a bad job dealing with the issue of climate change, and that there are very good reasons for libertarians to be concerned with it -- even from their own perspective. My paper won't be coming out until August, but you might be interested in checking out a cool paper by a fellow libertarian, Edwin Dolan: Science, Public Policy, and Global Warming: Rethinking the Market-Liberal Position. Dolan's analysis is very different from mine, and ultimately we disagree on a number of things. But his indictment of the "mainstream libertarian" response (haha mainstream libertarian) is compelling and well put together, and I cite the paper extensively in my own essay. My point in posting all of this is to show that the problems with the way that libertarians have tended to approach the issue of climate change is not lost on everyone within the libertarian camp. We're working on it!

By: keenmer

keenmer — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:59:01 +0000

You’re still number one Teh Editorez!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Does+a+Hilbert+curve+or+z+curve+achieve+better+clustering+when+applied+as+an+access+method+for+an+arbitrary+spatio-temporal+database%3F

Er, except when you’re number two…

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=What+are+the+likely+long-term+impacts+of+the+new+federal+stimulus+bill+on+the+commodities+futures+market%3F

I jest luv ciphers and cipherin’ why heck, sum of dem smartee pants can make dem numbers dance!

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:04:09 +0000

I do not have a problem with consulting t.A.T.u. on everything all the time.

‘Scuse me, consulting break.

By: wolfetone

wolfetone — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:49:01 +0000

Yeah, what’s up with the link-fake on Leonard Cohen? My heart stopped for a minute and I actually read the whole Gillespie biosketch.

By: sugarpie

sugarpie — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:30:09 +0000

Geez, you scared me with that Leonard Cohen thing. I didn’t want to have to think of him as a libertarian.

By: curv3ball

curv3ball — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:01:34 +0000

Balki Bartokomous.

By: Cato the Censor

Cato the Censor — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:59:44 +0000

Does anyone know anything about the state of Reason Magazine’s finances? I would think that things have to be tough since wingnut welfare seems to be drying up. Any chance that stupid rag will go out of business? It would force several so-called “journalists” to find real work.

By: frankbi

frankbi — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:49:24 +0000

Also, you forgot Joe the Pl^H^HEconomist. -- bi

By: frankbi

frankbi — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:43:03 +0000

The libertarian method? I thought it's called "Sound Science". -- bi