Month: November 2003

Check out the “Are You an Austrian?” quiz at the Mises Inst. I scored 94/100 (96, if I hadn’t misread a question.) Not surprisingly, the two questions I got “wrong” are the Mises Institutes’ take on “market anarchism” and pacificism. Ex: “A market society needs no antitrust policy at all; indeed, the state is the…

Laurel mentioned a story about “a group of students at Stanford University in California [who are] demanding the ouster of the editor of the school’s student paper because it published an ad with pictures of Palestinians celebrating the 9/11 attacks.” The story inspired be to make the below image, which I recommend you add to…

The Onion: Americans Demand Increased Governmental Protection From Selves.

I was browsing Google News today, and came across this editorial. The best part: I feel obligated to point out the fundamental flaws in the Objectivist Club as a forum for discussing ideas…. The Objectivist Club’s constitution states that its mission is “to study, discuss and debate, using reason, the content, validity and application of…

CBS has some interesting revelations about Arafat’s finances. According to the story, he embezzled 1 to 3 billion dollars and directed it to his secret accounts in Israel and the Cayman islands. His wife receives a $100,000/month stipend for a lavish Paris mansion. He has looted billions from money that Israel gives to support the…

Masturbation is like owning a Ferrari and driving only in first gear, a senior Catholic theologian said in an article published Wednesday. “Driving only in first gear, not only do you prevent the Ferrari expressing its full power, but gradually you wear it out and thereby ruin a masterpiece of technology,” Father Giordano Muraro wrote…

I’m spending the day creating a new gallery for my photo album. With 3,200 images taking up 880MB of space, this is truly a monumental task. You can keep track of my progress here. Update: My new album is finished! What do you think of the theme?

Last Wednesday, I presented a talk on capitalism for the A&M Objectivism Club. My speech was fairly awful, but afterwards, I converted my outline into an essay to add to this site. After finishing the first part, I noticed an unread copy of “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal” sitting on my bookshelf – one of a…

Did you know that Al-Qa’ida has an official website? Unfortunately for Al-Qa’ida, its former webmaster met an untimely demise in Saudi Arabia last month, but their website has been up and down since then under various domains. The site is no joke: “Al Qaeda is said to use this site as a means of communicating…

Almost 60 percent of Europeans say that Israel is a larger threat to world peace than North Korea, Iran or Afghanistan, according to a poll scheduled to be made public Monday by the European Commission. Some 58 percent of those polled said the United Nations should manage the reconstruction of Iraq, compared with 44 percent…