October 2007

Book Review: Sagramanda: A Novel of Near-Future India

October 18, 2007 @ 9:47 pm

I have two book/movie reviews coming out in the Fall issue of Prometheus, the quarterly newsletter of the Libertarian Futurist Society. The first is on the Transformers movie and novelization, and here is the second: Sagramanda: A Novel of Near-Future India By Alan Dean Foster Pyr/Prometheus Books, 2006, $25.00 Alan Dean Foster’s Sagramanda is a [...]

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Book and Movie Review: Transformers

October 18, 2007 @ 9:34 pm

I have two book/movie reviews coming out in the Fall issue of Prometheus, the quarterly newsletter of the Libertarian Futurist Society. Here is the first: Transformers: The Movie DreamWorks SKG, 2007 Directed by Michael Bay Screenplay by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Anderson, Jon Voight, Rachael Taylor, [...]

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Ron Paul on The O'Reilly Factor 9-10-07

October 18, 2007 @ 1:15 pm

Bill: “We don’t need a history lesson.” But Bill’s remarks clearly evince a need for the lesson Ron Paul was trying to give him. History is important in this issue. Incidentally, this is Bill being respectful and on his best behavior. If you’ve never watched his spin zone of a show, you should once in [...]

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BBC Video on Inconvenient Truths for Gore about his Movie

October 16, 2007 @ 1:25 pm

Here’s the link. Hat tip to Anthony Watts for bringing it to my attention.

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Iron Maiden vs. The American National Socialists

October 13, 2007 @ 10:02 pm

One of my favorite bands. A new video for their 1984 song, “2 Minutes to Midnight.” Check out the Wikipedia article on the song. Among other things it will help explain the title.

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"To Protect and Serve" or "To Punish and Enslave"?

October 13, 2007 @ 9:12 pm

I’ll let the cops’ actions and words speak for themselves.

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Nobel Farce Prize

October 12, 2007 @ 7:47 am

If the Nobel Foundation had any respectability left, it lost it when Al Gore and the IPCC were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on climate change. Before this it had already been plain that the awarding of Nobel Prizes, the Peace prize and others, were highly political. How else can both Hayek [...]

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Oh No! NOT the Buddy Bears!

October 11, 2007 @ 9:31 pm

A funny parody of collectivism.

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