I don’t wanna be a candidate for Vietnam or Watergate… Luckily, Reason writers Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch – they of the Free Minds, Free Markets persuasion – have co-written a new book which recognizes this preference, celebrating our modern world, one of competing luxuries and increasingly expressive and diverse individuals that have prevailed in […]

Whenever I see an acronym that ends in MNT, I immediately take for granted that it is a rare variety of “Mutant Ninja Turtle”. For instance, USMNT means “Underwear Sniffing Mutant Ninja Turtles” (Donatello, Waters, Carradine, Clinton, and Brass) and not “United States Men’s National Team” as context eventually reveals. What a much more entertaining […]

From what I’ve followed of Barack Obama, he seems like a terribly nice guy. This is his key strength, his charisma, but it does seem a little more than that. I can’t help but have a great respect for someone if they evidence that they truly, truly believe in what they are talking about…that they […]