Classical Values

Month: December 2010

  • What we call “privacy” is just an unclosed loophole

    I really liked Glenn Reynolds’ latest InstaVision interview: I talk with Jim Meigs of Popular Mechanics, who explains the creepy side of the information age. Corporations compile information on you. Can this information be used for nefarious purposes? What happens if a stalker gets a hold of your information? I like to think that at…

  • The Sharp Edge Of Guilt

    Honestly, if aliens wanted to stop humans from reproducing, they couldn’t have come up with a better idea than this! Or if they wanted to ensure those who reproduced oppressed women again, this time without any real biological/technological excuse.

  • Eric Told me I Could Do Shameless Self Promotion

    So, blame this on him. The paperback of Darkship Thieves is out. I’m buried in the next Elise Hyatt mystery — A Fatal Stain — which was due a month ago. I will do more Heinlein posts and others as soon as I get this written. Meanwhile, I have put up — again — the…

  • Hard Drugs

    It is rich, but Raich has come back to haunt those hoping for a legal answer to Obama Care. Just as I predicted in Letter to a Friend. Reason Magazine has the news. According to a federal judge in Virginia, ObamaCare’s individual mandate to purchase health insurance is constitutional under the Commerce Clause because, under…

  • the wages of sin?

    I’m a 56 year old man who sometimes enjoys contemplating the beauty of ruins. I don’t want to say that I “celebrate the beauty of decay” because that might sound decadent and distract from my purpose here, which is to stick to an activity considered normal and wholesome. Contemplating the beauty of ruins is certainly…

  • the modern exclusion of traditional gay inclusion

    One of the hot topics of today is the DADT quagmire, which I don’t feel especially compelled to discuss right now — mainly because I don’t like joining in news-driven choruses in rote response to the appearance of news items. (Allahpundit noted that despite the hype over the poll that’s generating the current fuss, “there…

  • A Culture For Libertines

    I was over visiting Stacy McCain’s thanks to Instapundit where there was a discussion going on about a Muslim gang that raped white women and girls – some as young as 12 – in the UK. So of course the question of culture comes up. And of course the decline in morals in the West.…