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Carlin on Political Language

Viresh Amin passes on this fairly entertaining address Carlin made to the Washington press corps (I think). It’s not hilarious but it’s great compared to other such speeches.

Learn Principles of Economics Online!

The full infomercial is here. There is a cool screenshot at the bottom of the article, in which I am quite enthusiastic. All joking aside, if you know any kids who aren’t quite ready for Rothbard, my class will be ideal. The textbook spends a lot of time merely defining things that most of us […]

Charles Rangel Says Apparently There Is Such a Thing as a Dumb Question

I heard about this on Rush. (That’s partly how I justify listening to AM talk radio; there are hilarious audio clips.) Look at the arrogance of this guy. He lets the cat out of the bag about the role of our watchdog media.

In Defense of Shaq and Palin

All the pundits are (understandably) having a good time because Sarah Palin said “refudiate.” And I remember back in grad school, the other American in the program and I had a good chuckle when Shaquille O’Neal at a news conference emphasized his answer to a question by saying something like, “Period! P-e-r-o-d, aww, whatever.” Well […]

Anarchists With Too Much Time on Their Hands

I can identify at least two of the Austro-anarcho-capitalists in this video. How many can you spot, kids?

What Do These People Have in Common?

This may be a bit of an inside baseball post, but my target audience reads this blog, so I’m going ahead with it… Okay I’m not saying I’m kind of a big deal, I’m just stating the fact that I get a lot of “fan mail.” In particular, people who have hot tips on cutting-edge […]

Do the Laws of Grammar Change in a Liquidity Trap Too?

I was glancing over Brad DeLong’s post about World War I when I came across this: It is never clear to me to what extent the fact that faithful translations from the German seem evasive of agency to nos Anglo-Saxons is an artifact of translation, a reflection of truth about German habits of thought, or […]

A Secret Critic of James Galbraith

I have a Mises.org on deck, pointing out the absurdity of James Galbraith’s what-me-worry? attitude toward federal budget deficits. But I have an ally in the geeconosphere, who recently blogged: OK, I don’t think that’s right. To spend, the government must persuade the private sector to release real resources. It can do this by collecting […]