“Soi-disant” and “manque” (both terms pretentiously used in recent blog posts on Ex Parte, the Weblog maintained by the Harvard Law School Federalist Society). Gimme a break. More annoying/pretentious words.
From Challengers hope to beat three incumbent judges, Houston Chronicle, Oct. 20, 2002:
Three incumbent Republicans are being challenged in their bids for re-election to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest appellate court for criminal cases.
[…]In Place 1, incumbent Tom Price faces Democrat John W. Bull, Libertarian Stephan Kinsella and Green Party nominee Robert C. “Rob” Owen.
[…] Kinsella, a Houston attorney, said there should be no hesitancy by appeals judges to overturn unconstitutional laws. He said the current court often “sides with the state because it’s run by mainstream (political party) judges.”
From Court candidates could steer path of criminal justice: 3 posts contested on court weighing life or death decisions, Dallas Morning News:
The Place 1 race pits incumbent Judge Tom Price against Democratic Municipal Court Judge John W. Bull of San Antonio. Also on the Place 1 ballot are Libertarian candidate Stephan Kinsella and Green Party candidate Robert C. Owen.
Judge Price said he didn’t want to lose a close race between the two major parties because of votes going to third-party candidates. He is focusing his efforts on personal appearances and direct mailings to those on voting lists from the Green Party and the Libertarians.
More info here.
Patent Absurdity: Ending a drug company scam, by Ronald Bailey (ReasonOnline, October 23, 2002) describes the clever manipulation of the patent and federal drug regulatory system by drug manufacturers to fend off competition from manufactuers of generics. Other IP articles and resources available here.
Nothing political catches my eye lately for me to comment on–so I’ll pass along a fantastic recipe, Chicken Big Mamou Pasta. This is a great dish I had many times from the now-defunct Magnolia Cafe cajun restaurant in Philly (yes, Philly). The recipe was published in a local paper and I have used it many times. The copy linked above has a few of my own modifications I’ve made to the recipe over the years.
1. GoToMyPC.com: lets you access your home (or work) PC from any other PC having an internet connection; works very well, and is faster than PCAnywhere. About $20/month.
2. mail2web.com: A great (and free) way to access your email on the road. Again, all you need is Internet access, your email address, and your email password. Mail2web figures out the POP3 etc. stuff.
3. j2.com: For emailable/web-accessible faxing. You can get a free fax number on which to receive faxes (which are then instantly emailed to you as an attachement). The free service gives you an out-of-area-code fax number, but who cares? If you pay about $5/month for j2lite, you can send faxes too, from email, from the web, or from the “print” function of most applications. It’s great.
Steve Gillmor’s latest InfoWorld “Ahead of the Curve” column, We the People …, contains some provocative thoughts on the legitimacy of intellectual property–comparing it, in some ways, to Prohibition. IP has outlived any usefulness it once had, the author quoted by Gillmor argues.
LEAGUE TABLE OF HUMOUR “We asked everyone participating in LaughLab to tell us which country they were from. We analysed the data from the ten countries that rated the highest number of jokes. The following ‘league table’ lists the countries, in the order of how funny they found the [following] jokes […]”. My favorite: “A patient says: ‘Doctor, last night I made a Freudian slip, I was having dinner with my mother-in-law and wanted to say: “Could you please pass the butter.” But instead I said: “You silly cow, you have completely ruined my life”.'”
There’s No Stopping Them: Perpetual motion is alive and well at the U.S. patent office, October 2002 Scientific American.
Scandals lead execs to ‘Atlas Shrugged’, in USA Today, is an interesting piece about a resurgence of interest among business executives in Ayn Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged, which is about innovators and businessmen who “become so fed up with the ‘moochers’ who regulate, tax and otherwise feed off of those who achieve, that the achievers go on strike. They withdraw their talents from the world, threatening to send it back toward the Dark Ages.”
In these post-Enron days of corporate scandal, some of the millions of copies of Atlas Shrugged that have been sold over 45 years are being dusted off by executives under siege by prosecutors, regulators, Congress, employees, investors, a Republican president, even terrorists. Executive headhunter Jeffrey Christian says many of his clients are re-reading the 1,075-page novel to remind themselves that self-interest is not only the right thing to do from an economic standpoint but is moral, as well. CEOs put the book down knowing in their hearts that they are not the greedy crooks they are portrayed to be in today’s business headlines but are heroes like the characters in Rand’s novel.
In my October 2001 LewRockwell.com article, New Israel: A Win-Win-Win Proposal, I proposed relocating Israel to U.S. public lands such as Utah or the Anwar area of Alaska. As I’ve previously blogged, Ken Layne subsequently published a similar proposal on FoxNews.com, How ‘Bout Relocating Israel to Mexico?.
Now come two more: “Fight World War IV” – Or Let Israelis Immigrate?, by Paul Craig Roberts, VDARE; and from a perhaps more Biblical perspective: Israel’s end-times gamble, by Gary DeMar, WorldNetDaily.com. Hmm. Does this idea have legs?
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