Winter’s Haven

My last post argued that voters ought to ignore issues which are chiefly ideological (such as evolution/creationism) and instead evaluate candidates on their policies. I feel that I should pass along this article by Megan McArdle which contends that Paul’s proposed policies would do remarkably little good (from a libertarian perspective, that is).
She’s probably [...]

The Bad Astronomer condemns Ron Paul for reasons which are… politically misguided. Namely, Paul is a creationist.
I think I speak for a lot of atheists libertarians when I say that, yes, Ron Paul’s views on evolution/creationism are awful, but in spite of that I’d still be fairly overjoyed to see him in the Oval Office. [...]

After sarcastically venting my frustration that my own impeccably sensible ideas are so are out of the political mainstream, I was reminded of a recent post from Megan McArdle. She doesn’t understand why so many liberals oppose funding education through vouchers, rather than having the government provide it directly, as it currently does. And, frankly, [...]

Reporting on the “pay-as-you-go” budget rules adopted by the Democratic majority in Congress, Edmund L. Andrews of the New York Times brings us the news that
Senate Democrats face an agonizing choice in the days ahead: find a way to raise at least $50 billion in new taxes, or undermine their most important rule for [...]

What. The. Fuck.
Police in Orlando, Florida claim “a typical prostitute that’s HIV-positive could potentially infect more than 18,000 people a year.”
Taking into account HIV transmission probabilities, Classically Liberal estimates that SuperProsti would have to serve at least “9 million customers [per year]. Disney World only manages 27 million.”

The Economist brings us an article about some very cool biologically inspired architecture.

PZ points out a video showing a squid giving birth to hundreds of tiny offspring. Truly wonderous.

In case you missed it, there was a terrorist incident at Los Angeles International airport last week. Care to guess what notorious group was responsible?

As should be [...]

In case you weren’t aware, the vast majority of mainstream media sucks. One big problem is sensationalism bias; however, I can almost forgive them for this, since they are at least acting in their own self-interest by reporting the sensational and extraordinary. What’s truly and utterly pathetic is the media’s tendency to just transcribe whatever [...]

Commenting on the recent problems of toxic pet food and children’s toys from China, Mark Kleiman of the Reality-Based Community snarkily suggests that libertarians ought to see these events as triumphs of the unfettered market. The post basically consists of Kleiman shaking his fist at libertarians and demanding to know why our wonderful free markets [...]

In response to the latest vague warnings from the Department of Homeland Security, Radley Balko of Reason patiently explains how the DHS is — quite literally — terrorizing the American public. The article is quite good; go read it.
I’m not posting this because I have anything insightful to add. I’m posting it because I [...]

I’m going to explain what “Equality Under the Law” means. This post is motivated by a thread at Friendly Atheist. Here is the question, posed to FA and readers by a theist, which started things:
[most people believe] that everyone is equal, and deserves equal treatment under the law.
But how do you prove this? In [...]