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Friday, December 3rd, 2004

On Wednesday I got into the lotus position in yoga class, and more importantly, I got out of it. So that's progress. My trip back East for Thanksgiving was nice. My brother plays in a slow-pitch softball league that does not use a mat for the strike ...

The Intellectual Activist

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

Last week I attended a meeting of CU-Boulder Objectivists, where Jeff, who had attended many Campus Libertarians events (the glory days are gone...) that I'd organized, recommended to me the "TIA Daily," the daily e-mail from the The Intellectual Activist. We had been talking about meeting topics, and I ...

Property rights to ponder

Friday, July 9th, 2004

I was listening to the radio last night, which is quite rare, and the DJ on the local "World Class Rock" station mentioned that The Who has recently licensed some of their songs for use in commercials. This is clearly an intellectual property issue that I'm still not quite ...

Quote of the week

Saturday, November 22nd, 2003

Quote of the week: To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. -- Bertrand Russell Article of the month is The Onion's Americans Demand Increased Government Protection from Themselves, which for some reason I cannot find on ...

Quoted, quantum mechanics

Tuesday, April 15th, 2003

I was quoted in the defacto college paper today for a Campus Libertarians event tomorrow. Versed. That's quite a drug. If you don't remember something, did you still experience it? Yesterday at a symposium about the play Copenhangen, I asked Carl Weiman, 2001 Nobel Prize Winner ...