by Stephan Kinsella
on August 13, 2004
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.
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by Stephan Kinsella
on August 6, 2004
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by Stephan Kinsella
on July 28, 2004
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.
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by Stephan Kinsella
on July 27, 2004
Recent post (2) on LewRockwell blog about Feser’s critique of libertarianism.
Other recent posts:
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by Stephan Kinsella
on July 24, 2004
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by Stephan Kinsella
on July 20, 2004
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.
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by Stephan Kinsella
on July 19, 2004
Another Chronicles thread in which I participated (briefly).
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by Stephan Kinsella
on July 19, 2004
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by Stephan Kinsella
on July 15, 2004
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.
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by Stephan Kinsella
on July 15, 2004
“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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by Stephan Kinsella
on July 12, 2004
People who say “I was taken back” instead of “taken aback”. Don’t use fancy expressions if you have no real idea of what they really are.
Recipes that call for chicken stock. I have no idea what chicken stock is. I only have cans of broth.
Recipes that say to use a “broiler”. what the heck is a “broiler”? I have an oven. It has a broil feature, but I have no idea when it it to be used, and whether that means I have “a broiler” or not. Sheesh.
Recipes that refer to a pot as a “sauce pan”. I always thought there were pots, and pans. Pans are the low-rimmed things you can fry in. Pots are the deeper things you can boil in. So what in the world is a sauce PAN? Obviously what is meant is a pot, why not call it one.
I hate people. They’re such idiots.
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by Stephan Kinsella
on July 9, 2004
A recent thread on Chronicles where Hoppe’s views were mischaracterized; I attempted to set the record straight.
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