I’ve just downloaded Firefox for Mac, to replace Safari, and have found that it makes blogging much easier. (That’s one reason why I’ve not been blogging much lately; that and being incredibly busy with other things.)
The Cato University seminar on “The Art of Persuasion” ended today (technically, yesterday, as it’s a quarter after midnight) and I think that the over 100 participants both learned a good deal and enjoyed themselves a lot. I did. (Nick Gillespie, editor of Reason magazine, did a great job of concluding the seminar by demonstrating how liberty in the modern world expands choices and what a wonderful and amazing world capitalism is daily making possible for us. I had no idea that there were that many varieties of Pop Tarts, not to mention mutant eggplants.)
I’ll be up in New York this week to attend the International Policy Network’s Bastiat Dinner and then over to New Haven, Connecticut to debate the legitimacy of the welfare state on Wednesday. I’ve got trips coming up to North Carolina to speak at several colleges there, and then to Portland, Oregon for the Freedom Seminar and a few other talks, followed by the Economic Freedom of the World meeting in Oman, after which (if I can arrange the visa and other matters) I’ll head to Iraq to give some lectures and promote libertarian ideas and policies there in other ways. After that I’ll go from the middle East to Moscow and then back to D.C.
I’ll be posting a few more items now that I’ve gotten a tool that makes it so much easier.
You’re such a big faggot.
Way to go mookie. That’s the sort of comment that raises the level of discourse here.
Now the question I would pose to you: If you hold Tom Palmer in such content, why go to the trouble of reading his blog? Surely you can find better things to do with your time.
Yosef asked Mookie:
“If you hold Tom Palmer in such content, why go to the trouble of reading his blog? Surely you can find better things to do with your time.”
Maybe because he enjoys the blog’s contempt…
R (subtle punster) L
Methinks mookie is an 8th-grade who just got his first mouse.
At least, Mookie, he’s a big faggot with a 167+ links to his much discussed blog, not to mention a position at the world renowned Cato Institute. And what do you have, other than a minor spat of attention that you got by making yourself look like an idiot?
See you in Portland!
When are you going to be in North Carolina and where are you speaking? I would love to attend!
Daniel
Glad to see you getting into Firefox. Been using it for several months now, and I’ve turned into a believer! Now if I can wean myself away from Microsoft in other areas…
Tom, I do hope you take a vacation from time to time after all of the running around you do.
Best of luck in your travels!
Just a thought.
Just Ken
kgregglv@cox.net
http://classicalliberalism.blogspot.com/
Pity about the rather questionable ethics of International Policy Network:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/10/326181.html
I checked the site above and it looks like the usual hatchet job from the British Left. It implies, without having the courage to go right out and state, that the IPN staff take positions because they are paid to do so, rather than taking positions and finding people to fund them. It also doesn’t mention the IPN’s work on malaria in Africa or attempt to rebut their proposals. The implicit premise is that if a pharmaceuticals company is funding a program to advance health, it must be a wicked and terrible thing. After all, those drug companies are the reasons that people get sick in the first place, aren’t they?
Here is a link to the IPN’s work on malaria
http://www.fightingdiseases.org/main/index.php