There are reasons to think it is against American interests for Turkey to join the European Union.  As is said here: Long-term, Turkey’s inclusion in the EU causes real trouble for the United States, because it makes a permanent rift between Europe and the United States, along the lines seen recently over Iraq (where Turkey’s…

As far as I can tell, IMDB classifies both humans and animals as "actors."  For instance, apparently a dog named Rocky played a character with the name "Scrooge the Dog, a.k.a. Crazy Wheels" in a movie called The Dirt Bike Kid.  I think there should be a separate category for animal "actors."  For one thing,…

Leiter is again saying that it is uninteresting that forged documents were used by CBS to support the case that Bush was a crappy National Guard soldier.  Here’s how he puts the point this time: One illustrative example of the degraded state of public discourse in America–and of the venal contribution of the blogosphere to…

As Scott (via Richard) suggests, the Hot Abercrombie Chick probably isn’t really a chick.  I don’t think this should surprise anyone who has read HAC’s blog.  Despite having written a post on the subject, Scott seems to think that thinking about HAC’s real identity is a waste of time.  I’ll agree to that, but it’s…

By the way, in the sidebar to the left I’ve added a new Typelist: "Movies recently watched."  "+" means good, "-" means bad.

I’ve been travelling and settling back into my normal routine, so I haven’t had much time to post.  Regular posting will resume shortly.  I hope to conclude my obese libertarianism series tonight and will thereafter abandon the topic in order to move on to greener pastures. In other news: I submitted my post on two…

Around the blogosphere today, people are discussing the following remark by Bush: "…I don’t see how you can be president at least from my perspective, how you can be president, without a relationship with the Lord," he said. (text lifted from Left2Right) It’s interesting to notice the difference in tone between Andrew Sullivan’s post on…

JPP points us to this face analyzing website.  I learn from it that I am a promiscuous Asian female, which is a hard truth to face, having spent many years believing falsely that I am none of those things.

Why is this blog ranked #16 on Technorati’s top 100?  There are some funny posts there, but I haven’t seen anything really hilarious so far, and it looks like it’s updated about once every one or two months.  I would think the 16th most authoritative blog in the world would have to be a bit…

At the end of my last post on this topic, I suggested a "working" version of the libertarian principle: LP3: Persons have an absolute right to dispose of their property however they please — within their property. In this post, I will discuss the meaning and extension of the term "property" as it appears in…