"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" October 2010 - Posts - TT's Lost in Tokyo

October 2010 - Posts

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Are libertarians interested in Lessig's call for cross-partisan action (campaign reform and Constitutional amendment) to clean up Congress? by TokyoTom

As I have previously noted , renowed Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig is also seriously concerned about political corrpution and the Citizens United decision . I recommend to readers his recent Washington Post op-ed , his related WaPo interview by...
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Robert Reich is Right ... about "The Secret Big-Money Takeover of America" by TokyoTom

And since Robert Reich has invited readers to "send this post to your friends", I've taken the liberty of cross-posting it below. Before we start, let me remind my readers that I've done a fair biit commenting on what I regard as the...
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Is Mises relevant on Copyrights? See article by Bettina Bien Greaves, his student, translator, editor and bibliographer by TokyoTom

Allow me to bring to the attention of readers who are following and/or participating in the growing discussion of IP and copyright (helpfully spearheaded by IP attorney Stephan Kinsella ) a very interesting article by a student of Ludwig von Mises. Bettina...
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Some comic relief from politics as usual? Donald Duck meets Glen Beck in "Right Wing Radio Duck"! by TokyoTom

No wind-up needed: The clip was conceived and edited by YouTube user "Rebelious Pixels" (Jonathan McIntosh), whose website notes : This is a re-imagined Donald Duck cartoon remix constructed from dozens of classic Walt Disney cartoons from the...
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"Welcome to the Age of Seawalls" (or, getting ready for the climate change that ain't happening) by TokyoTom

Bradford Plumer , associate editor at New Republic, uses the quoted language above to grab our attention for a piece by Stevew Nash (largely behind a paywall) about how cities in the United States are preparing for sea-level rise. Says Plumer: "The...
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Criticism of US IP imperialism (and shallow WSJ support) by Reuters and foreign Left-Keynesians by TokyoTom

Says lefty Australian economist John Quiggin ( whom I have referred to earlier in other contexts), in a piece titled " How the Americans stole the Ugg boot " (emphasis added): The world would be a lot better off without intellectual property...