Someone just called me to tell me about something that might “pick” (instead of pique) my interest.
People who say “mute” instead of “moot,” as in, “that idea is now mute.”
Also people who say “re-la-tor” instead of “realtor”. Idiots. Idiots. People. I hate ’em. (this latter line is, of course, a take-off of the Outland cartoon where Opus the penguin hears some crotchety old curmudgeon walk by fuming and saying, “Left wingers, I hate ’em!” while Opus looks down at this left wing in bepuzzlement).
My latest book is Online Contract Formation. It went to the printer today, and is published this month by Oceana. Gives practical advice about legal issues related to formation of contracts through online means, from a multi-jurisdictional perspective….
Forthcoming probably December is International Investment Political Risk and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide.
Recent article: Frank van Dun, Against Libertarian Legalism: A Comment on Kinsella and Block, J. Libertarian Studies, Vol. 17 Num. 3 (Summer 2003); my reply: “Reply To Van Dun: Non-Aggression and Title Transfer” [see more recent post here]
Despite their age or surface-level looks, the following women are not hot at first glance, but who are actually kind of sexy if you think about it, in a certain way. Note this list does NOT include obviously hot babes. Only women who are “surprisingly” hot–that is, the fact that they are kind of attractive is kind of surprising:
- Susan Estrich
- Martha Stewart
- Barbara Walters
- Barbra Streisand
- Christiane Amanpour
- Lindsay Wagner
- Tereza Heinz Kerry
- Laurie Metcalf (the sister in Roseanne)
- Allison Janney (from West Wing and also the starfish Peach in Finding Nemo)
- Jeanine Garofolo
- Barbara Branden
Now here are women who do not seem hot on first impression–and this impression is correct:
- Candy Crowley
- Laura Bush (her daughters are another story)
- Madeleine Albright
- Hillary Clinton (Chelsea is another matter altogether. Yes.)
- Bella Abzug
- Ayn Rand
- Gloria Allred
- Linda Evans
- Joan Collins
- Suzanne Somers
Now there are of course many “smokin’ hot” babes who are obviously hot–too obviously hot to be included in the category of “surprisingly hot”:
- Naomi Wolf
- Paula Zahn (though some strangely call her “toothy”?)
- some of the FoxNews and CNN babes: E.D. Hill, Kirin Chetry, Lauren Green, and Soledad O’Brien.
Query: Where does Isabella Rosselini fall? Linda Hamilton? Barbara Eden? Difficult to classify.
Recent post (2) on LewRockwell blog about Feser’s critique of libertarianism.
Other recent posts:
- Defense of Marriage
- Correspondence with an Iraqi Attorney
- Strange Logic of Capital Punishment
- Self-Evident Rights
- World Court ruling on West Bank Wall
My latest article, Eat This Book: Review of Brad Edmonds’s There’s a Government in Your Soup: Why There’s Too Much Government in Your Kitchen, and What You Can Do About It, July 24, 2004, LewRockwell.com.
I despise when people use the word “coed”. I don’t think I’ve ever found a need to use it. It’s about as useful as the word “ontology”. I mean what is this, the fricking 1950s? Why would a female student be called a Co-ed? Stupid.
Someone sent me this horribly misogynistic and tasteless email. I just want to say, I strongly object to such immoral objectification of women.
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Coda: Tim Swanson found out that this woman is porn star Sydney Moon and the original clips are here.
Tucker Max has a new story up. The part from the blind piano player (about 2/5 of the way through) to his toilet adventures in the hotel (about 4/5 through) had me laughing so hard my stomach hurt.
“The accident occurred at the intersection of Fifth and Elm.” You hear such things on occasion, or “where did it happen?” There is an implicit assumption that an event has a location. I do not understand this. And event is a happening. Happenings don’t have a location for they don’t have a body or a size.
If two cars hit each other, where does the accident occur? Between the cars? The volume of space the cars occupied when they first hit? Or the volume of space traced by the cars from the beginning, to the end, of the accident, i.e. a 4-D volume? The concept is simply not well-defined.
To take some other examples–I love my wife. Where is the love? Last year, I loved my dog. Where did this event occur? What was its location? The sun got a year older last year–where did the aging occur? If I talk to a Dutch friend on the phone, where does the conversation, the talking, occur? If I bury a time capsule, and you dig it up after I’d dead, where did the message-conveying occur?
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