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In response to this LewRockwell.com blog post, License to Breed (2), these replies and threads sprang up:

Replies: Re: License to Breed (Casey Khan), Re: License to Breed?
(Jesse Ogden), Re: License to Breed (Chris Dominguez)

Threads: Kinsella Wants to License Breeding (No Treason) and a thread on anti-state.com.
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Update: See License to Breed.

Update: Now updated at Hoppe and Kinsella on Immigration

In response to this LewRockwell.com blog post, Immigration Idea (2; about selling citizenship, and No Treason’s Chattering Punks), and Hoppe’s article on immigration, these threads sprang up (my reply: Palmer on Hoppe, Hoppe on Coase, and Re: Palmer on Hoppe):

• Stephan Kinsella Ought To Shut His Stupid Cake Hole (No Treason)
• Yet Another Problem With Hoppe’s Immigration Column (No Treason)
• Hoppe: “The best one may hope for…” (no-treason)
• Heroic market anarchist takes on market anarchist (Anti-State.com)
• Gary North, Lew Rockwell, and the Politics of Stoning Heretics and Homosexuals to Death (Tom Palmer)
• An Immigration Policy that Would Exclude Its Author (Tom Palmer)

Recent LewRockwell.com blog posts:

• Compulsory Kiwi Voting
• Creative Tax Avoidance
• Re: Lawyers: The Problem?
• The Sky is Falling! (looming budget gap of $72 trillion)
• Out of the Mouths of Babes (Montessori “Peace Table”)
• Betting on Bush
• Re: The Civil War (and its proper name)
• Re: On Reducing the Supreme Court’s Jurisdiction
• Re: Stalking and Threats as Aggression
• Anti-Semitism in America (re attorney who pretends to be Jewish)
• Terrorism and Photocopiers
• Self-hating neocons (on bizarre Wall Street Journal article saying “Don’t call me a “neocon” unless you are a friend”)
• Cato on Federalism
• Another Point for France (Income Tax Witholding)
• It’s Usually the Government’s Fault
• Badnarik to the Bone (and re nutjobs, conspiracy wackos, the Fed is “privately owned”, etc.)
• Re: Larouche Rockwell?
• Long on Anarchy, Short on Government
• Five Indispensable Tips for Law Students and New Lawyers
• Stop Writing Me About The Jews (on Fred Reed’s column, and conspiracy nutballs)
• Spam and a Cup of Sugar (on West U’s ordinance against door-to-door soliciting; and spam comments)
• Why Kerry Will Win
• De Jure Belli ac Pacis (Hugo Grotius’s On the Law of War and Peace online)
• A different sort of oligarch (aabout the capitalist Georgian minister of economics)

I’ve discovered you can pepper many sentences with “at least” to really change its meaning and annoy someone. For example, if you are going to walk the dogs and baby and the wife is upstairs, you could say, “Could you please drop the baby’s socks down?” or you could say, “Could you at least please drop the baby’s socks down?” The latter can really annoy someone.

Three comments.

1. There is a little town north of Houston, named Humble. For some reason it’s pronounced the Eliza Doolittle way, ‘umble. It’s disconcerting to hear Houston truckdrivers refer to ‘umble. I just can’t say it. I have to say Humble. It sounds like too much an affectation to say ‘umble.

2. In movies when someone finds dead body with the eyes open, they do this weird wave of the hand where the open hand closes they eyes. What the f*** is that? When were we supposed to have learned this trick, right after we catch flies with chopsticks?

3. This stock scene in movies is annoying: where a repressed or unable-to-state-their-true feelings repressed conservative Hollywood stereotype is hugged and is unable to return the hug… his hand sort of cups into an “I want to hug you” motion but just can’t complete it. What nauseous Hollywood crizzap. (Sorry, Jesse, I guess I’m still “bitter and hate-filled.”)

4. Just saw Angels in America. It makes me realize, liberal homosexuals think it’s all about them.

It is mind-boggling that there is not an easy way to convert a huge, memory-sucking color-scanned PDF file into a black and white file.

Another annoyance: pregnant couples who refuse to find out the sex of their baby during the pregnancy. They want a surprise when the baby is born. Give me a break. This glassy-eyed, grinning-idiot, happy-shit granola crunching crap is more than I can stand.

Daddy forgot what he was gonna write. Too much Knob Creek.

Being discussed on my law blog.

I mean ones that have staying power, that are very enjoyable, and that you like to watch multiple times. Off top of my head, these are:

4 Stars

Sound of Music

Godfather 1 and 2

Star Wars IV, V, VI

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Groundhog Day

Terminator 2

Aliens

Moonstruck

Matrix 1

Dr. Zhivago

ET

Annie Hall

The Graduate

Finding Nemo

3.5 Stars

some of the Star Trek movies, like 1, 2, 3, 4

Ordinary People

Poltergeist

Tempest

Life of Brian

Manhattan

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Some of these were suggested by Paul Comeaux, along w/ some others I didn’t include, such as the pretentious black and white ones everyone pretends to like but never really watch (like Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, All About Eve, even Clockwork Orange, which is dated and almost laughable now in some ways, etc.).

Any more obvious ones I’m missing? (Roger Ebert has a list of great movies, I need to check it out…)

A turnoff: When yuppies and bobos (bourgeouis bohemians) are portrayed by Hollywood as ordering Chinese food and eating it with chopsticks right out of the little box off of a coffee table. I have never in my life seen this. Rather, every normal person I’ve ever seen order chinee food puts the little containers on the kitchen counter and everyone gets a plate and takes what he wants, buffet style. Everyone uses a plate. And no one ever uses chopsticks.

If you ate right out the box, how would people share? What, do you eat a whole box of panda fried rice on your own, with nothing else? And right out the box? With chopstix? Getting little rice thingies all over your den/carpet/coffee table? Please. This is even more annoying than the laugh track in sit-coms, or when characters in sitcoms enter someone’s house and leave the front door open.