Month: April 2006

  • Biking Photos

    I took some photos from my bike last night and made some collages. What do you think? (More here)

  • Apple's 50 acres

    Advocates of eminent domain often argue that it is necessary to prevent holdouts from bidding up prices as part of a large land purchase. But real estate companies have developed many strategies to deal with this problem long before governments started confiscating land on their behalf. Even if you are a brand-name company trying to…

  • Environmentalists’ Big Lie about Renewable Energy

    Anne Applebaum writes about how environmentalists are opposing renewable energy sources just as they are becoming practical: “The problem plaguing new energy developments is no longer NIMBYism, the “Not-In-My-Back-Yard” movement. The problem now, as one wind-power executive puts it, is BANANAism: “Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.” ….Are we really ready, politically, to build any…

  • PBS on "The Tank Man"

    On June 5, 1989, one day after the Chinese army’s deadly crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, a single, unarmed young man stood his ground before a column of tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace. Captured on film and video by Western journalists, this extraordinary confrontation became an icon of the…

  • Amazon profile updated

    Amazon has recently updated the public information it makes available about users. My profile is probably a bit more revealing than it should be, but I’ve never been a stickler for privacy.

  • LTE: Illegal Immigration and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

    Politicians and ideologues insist that illegal immigrants should be deported because they broke the law. But some laws ought to be broken. In 1850, the United States Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act as part of a compromise between Southern slave-owners and Northern abolitionists. The law made it a duty for every law enforcement official…