Fascinating report by Bruce Bartlett, Potential oil supply refill? (Washington Times). About old oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico apparently refilling. The anti-industrialist, anti-capitalist, anti-technology leftists and luddites are sure to be disappointed.
WWII Propaganda Posters Updated for Modern Era: These spoofs of WWII propaganda posters are hilarious (some are crude). (Thanks to Karen De Coster.)
FBI resources switched from drugs to terrorism: About the only good news I’ve seen lately in the government’s response to the Terrorist Attacks: the FBI is reassigning about 400 agents from the anti-drug crimes division to counter-terrorism operations; and shifting another 59 from white-collar crime divisions. If we were really serious about fighting and preventing terrorism, we’d (a) stop intervening around the world and provoking anti-US sentiment; (b) specifically target criminal group and government leaders for assassination instead of bombing innocent civilians; (c) remove all restrictions on, and engage in, racial profiling (e.g. give certain Arabs/Muslims in airports heightened attention); and (d) stop wasting resources fighting victimless crimes like drugs and shift those resources to terrorism prevention. The FBI’s move here is at least a small step in the right direction.
Don’t Mess with Texas or, A Yankee by Any Other Name Would Smell as… (from KinsellaLaw).
Good Math: The Orgasmic Calculator is worth trying, at least once, but not at the office…
Shades of Galambos: Along the lines of “if you build it, they will come,” we have the IP analogue, “if government enacts a right to obtain property rights in arbitrary, intangible ‘things,’ they will apply for it”: Man Claims Copyright of His Name, FindLaw (AP), 2002-05-16. Sounds like something–dare I use his name?–Galambos would do (see discussion of Galambos in this article, at footnotes 49-53).
Update: see also Galambos and Other Nuts.
Copyright and Open-Source Software. Interesting BusinessWeek article, A Bad, Sad Hollywood Ending?, about the potential danger that copyright law poses to the open-source software movement.
Following up on my previous blog about the great Spider-Man movie–I’ve come across a superb review by Harry Knowles.
Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and retired patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020), and The Universal Principles of Liberty (2025).
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