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Frank Zappa: Slime is the tool of the Government (and of Republicans and Hillary?)

I ran across some interesting and topical Frank Zappa lyrics the other day, so I`m putting them up here. Does these resonate with anyone else? I have noted a few thoughts further below. I'm The Slime I am gross and perverted I'm obsessed 'n...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Apr 17 2008

Filed under: rent-seeking, government, bush, cognition, politics, Zappa, MSM, Rove, clinton, obama

A question for my rhetoric class

My rhetoric class is now reading articles about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The topic is very intriguing, and many in class have professed a wonder about how they had never heard much about the subject growing up through...

Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Thu, Apr 17 2008

Filed under: injustice, World War II, Japanese-Americans, public education, War on Terror, government, enemy combatants, justice, internment, civil liberties

Nick Kristof on politics: why we conclude that I'm right, and you're evil

Here's a very interesting piece by Kristof at the New York Times about the reactions of Obama and Clinton supporters, and introducing cognitive science studies of why more information often polarizes, rather than bringing people together . Divided...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Thu, Apr 17 2008

Filed under: rent-seeking, tribalism, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, cognition, climate change

Bush announces bold inaction on climate change

As I noted in my April 15 post, http://mises.org/Community/blogs/tokyotom/archive/2008/04/15/bush-hoist-by-own-petard-prepares-global-warming-initiative.aspx , President Bush has indeed just made a specific policy statement on climate change . There is...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Wed, Apr 16 2008

Filed under: bali, AGW, bush, climate change, China

Lo que usted debe saber acerca de la inflación

Publicado en Inglés en el Artículo Diario del Blog del Ludwig von Mises Institute, en Marzo 11 de 2008. Autor: Henry Hazlitt [Este artículo es un extracto de los primeros capítulos del libro Lo que usted debe saber acerca de...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Tue, Apr 15 2008

Problems with gold or any common currency?

Let's say we have two economically and geographically isolated islands, each with the rough size and population of New Zealand. They are virtual clones of one another, and each has a functioning monetary economy based on a gold standard, with all...

Posted to Austrian Analysis by Anecdote by Don Lloyd on Tue, Apr 15 2008

Bush - hoist by own petard - prepares global warming initiative

More at the Washington Times: http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080414/NATION/676175489/1001 And at the Wall Street Journal's enviro blog: http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/04/14/green-bush-white-house-to-push-climate-package/?mod...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Apr 14 2008

Filed under: climate, AGW, bush, China

Don't arrest me bro.

These hoodlum libertarians will think twice before trying to celebrate the birth of a founding father again. Balko reports and makes the front page of digg this morning. Read More...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Mon, Apr 14 2008

Filed under: dancing, thomas jefferson, arrested

Climate science resources

Here are rather exhaustive lists of the skeptics' arguments on science grounds, along with brief analyses and links to underlying publications: Coby Beck: How to talk to Global Warming Skeptic Brian Angliss A Thorough Debunking New Scientist: Climate...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Apr 14 2008

Filed under: climate, science, AGW, skeptic

Two Philosophies of History

Political philosophies often involve views of history. There seems to be two fundamental views of history, as I have touched on in " Traditionalism as Stagnation " and " Radicalism and Moderation ". These two views are what I would...

Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sat, Apr 12 2008

Filed under: Social Evolution, Slavery, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Human Nature, History

Get yer top climate skeptic arguments here!

Here are rather exhaustive lists of the skeptics' arguments on science grounds - coupled with brief analyses of the arguments and links to underlying publications: John Cross: Skeptical Science Coby Beck: How to talk to Global Warming Skeptic Brian...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Apr 11 2008

Filed under: science, AGW, climate change, skeptic

[Update] Climate change lawsuits: Does the difficulty of proving causation mean there is no harm?

There is a new climate change lawsuit in US courts, this time by the Inuit inhabitants of an Alaskan village that will soon be rendered uninhabitable by the rapid erosion resulting from the year-round pounding of seas that were once frozen; the villagers...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Tue, Apr 8 2008

Filed under: climate, mises, AGW, Dolan, Richman, Callahan, litgation, Pawa

Climate spin: Who changed "global warming" to "climate change"?

Answer: It wasn't the enviros who changed the use of this term, but rather high-powered corporate lobbying interests and their allies in Bush government and the Republican party , spearheaded by leading Republican pollster/ spinmeister Frank Luntz...

Posted to TT's Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Mon, Apr 7 2008

Filed under: climate, republicans, AGW, statist, Luntz, tobacco

Oro Almacenado vs. Oro en Acción

por Antal E. Fekete - Universidad del Patrón Oro Dividiendo el Imperio Romano en dos mitades ¿Qué tanto oro? Muchos lectores de mi columna me han preguntado que tanto oro creo que hay en Fort Knox, y que cantidad de oro creo que ha sido almacenada por...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Mon, Apr 7 2008

Jim Hansen: As CO2 climbs, what are the long-term warming effects of CURRENT CO2 levels?

What do climate scientists say that recently obtained data about our past climate tells us about the consequences of long-term increases in atmospheric CO2 (and other GHGs)? They tell us that we are already at levels that, if sustained (and at current...