You Know You’re Getting Old When…..
I just got a new Gateway laptop with wireless capability. At the same time I got a Gateway wireless router to connect my desktop with my laptop. Well, this morning…
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You Know You’re Getting Old When…..
I just got a new Gateway laptop with wireless capability. At the same time I got a Gateway wireless router to connect my desktop with my laptop. Well, this morning…
You Know You’re Getting Old When…..
I just got a new Gateway laptop with wireless capability. At the same time I got a Gateway wireless router to connect my desktop with my laptop. Well, this morning…
Only in the United States
Who would have ever thought that a teenage bodybuilder from the Austrian hinterland would become Governor of Kalifornien? What an astonishing country. The only thing I deeply regret about the…
Steven Pinker: Scientist
I heard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker speak this evening at the American Enterprise Institute on the topic of his latest book, The Blank Slate. His delivery is even better than…
Exciting Times for American Politics
American politics is getting a bit more interesting, what with President Bush’s numbers declining (as if that weren’t predictable), problems in Iraq as French President Chirac deliberately undermines the attempts…
Psychiatric Tyranny and Abuse
Thomas Szasz, the pioneering critic of the psychiatric establishment and a leading libertarian thinker, spoke on psychiatry and liberty at the Cato Institute on September 25. (I think it will…
Political Theory at Brown University: Globalization, Sexuality and Individual Rights, and Lots of Discussion and Hard Thinking
I’m off on Friday to Providence, Rhode Island to give the opening lecture and to lead a workshop at a conference at Brown University on political theory. It’s been organized…
Is America a Great Country, or What?
What makes a country great? The neo-conservatives insist that it’s big projects carried out by big government. You know, pyramids, national service, war, that sort of thing. I disagree, although…
Back to D.C.
Well, I got off the plane from France yesterday and was almost staggered by the stifling heat and humidity. I often wonder why D.C. is inhabited at all, or at…