>div id="content">

posts from libertarian

Occupy Wall Street and the Individual – Of Walruses and Oysters, a Grain of Sand

by Jason T. Kocher October 21st, 2011 - Politics » Society »

I quote Ferris Beuller,

“-ism’s in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, ‘I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.’ Good point there. After all, he was the walrus.”

Good point there.

When I first heard of the Occupy Wall Street movement, I sympathized with [...]

No Comments
>?php print sociable_html(); ?>

The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong With America by Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch

by Jason T. Kocher August 15th, 2011 - Politics » Culture » The Written Word »

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 [...]

1 Comment
>?php print sociable_html(); ?>

EconStories.tv – Keynes vs. Hayek

by Jason T. Kocher August 13th, 2011 - Culture » Film and TV » Politics »

EconStories.tv is the offspring of award winning video director John Papola and Russ Roberts professor of economics at George Mason University.

I remember being skeptical when I saw a link to their first video, “Fear the Boom and Bust” an economic rap battle between John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek, but after bopping through the video it was immediately clear [...]

No Comments
>?php print sociable_html(); ?>

Case Studies in Indecency – The Burden of Proof is on the FCC

by Jason T. Kocher June 27th, 2011 - Culture » Politics » Society »

The Supreme Court of the United States has decided some interesting cases in the last year. Most recently came a decision that overturned a California law banning/fining sales of violent video games to minors, leaving the moral decision of such incidents to families rather than the all-knowing Oz.

Bravo to SCOTUS for making the rational decision in response to the [...]

No Comments
>?php print sociable_html(); ?>
The Sporadical skeptically promotes the following:
SKEPTIC Mises Reason Penn and Teller Frank Zappa