Technological Alternatives to Patents and Copyrights
I’ve just downloaded the new iTunes 7. Wow….it is beautiful. It also led me to think a bit about issues on which I worked quite a few years ago, in…
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Bush’s Defense
The video above (click on the image) offers a good example of a president employing what I recently learned is now called the “Chewbacca Defense,” which Wikipedia defines as follows:…
The Drowsy Chaperone
Adolpho, the Latin Lover I’m in New York for some business, but last night I caught a really fun Broadway show, on the advice of Andrea Millen Rich, who knows…
Freedom’s a Gamble
A friend who plays poker in both three-dimensional space and virtual space forwarded the following announcement to me: Your urgent action is needed! On September 12th the Poker Players Alliance…
Middle Eastern Comic Book Art
Comics Are as Popular in the Arab World as Elsewhere As a part of my research on new ways to convey ideas, I’ve been looking into the medium of the…
A Little Smug Chauvinism?
Documented Sense? According to the BBC, some people in a little village in the north of Japan claim that Jesus was not crucified, nor did he rise from the grave….
Some Insights from Mercatus/GMU Economists
Tyler Cowen had an interesting essay in the New York Times on the “trade imbalance” between the U.S. and China (insightful, but I don’t follow his argument about whether the…
Georgia On My Mind
Georgian: Russian: English I’m working hard with my colleagues for our upcoming conference on Freedom, Commerce, and Peace: A Regional Agenda, to be held October 25-27 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Nobel…
So Offensive Other People Mustn’t Be Allowed to See It….
Madonna is a very fine performer and even an artist. (I’m not a big fan myself.) It’s also true that she offends many people with her work. What I find…
The Rule of … Mystic Dwarves
Armand, Luis and Angel? The Philippine judge who was dismissed for allegedly consulting “mystic dwarves” during healing sessions in his chambers has posted a defense on Dave Barry’s website. (Or,…