The Watchmen and Jeremy Bentham

TERROR, PHILLY STYLE THIS HALLOWEEN, GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL – IF YOU DARE! TERROR, PHILLY STYLE - New York Post By CHRIS BUNTING WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN: So how does it work when "guards" at the Eastern State Penitentiary get all zombified for Halloween? WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN: So how does it work when "guards" at the Eastern State Penitentiary get all zombified for Halloween? PHOTO GALLERY: Terror, Philly Style PHILADELPHIA claims about 20 colleges and uni... more

I ran across this odd debate between Bryan Caplan and Walter Block. Here is Block’s argument (“frb� means fractional reserve banking):...... more

I’m going to post a few thoughts as the evening progresses. Comments are open. First up--CNN has "The Diff" in its election results. Looks like Obama has it won; Fox has called PA and OH for him. FL, IN, NC, and VA are not yet called so Obama might take several moderate to large states from McCain. Decent news on the gridlock front--GOP senators in GA and KY have held on and it looks like Trent Lott’s seat in MS will stay GOP and there’s some chance of taking a Dem seat from LA... more

PatriotPost.US I keep hearing how important it is for everyone to vote. Let me be politically incorrect and say that maybe some people shouldn’t vote. I know I’m swimming against the tide. Get-out the-vote groups now register young people at rock concerts. HeadCount cofounder Andy Bernstein told me: ‘We registered over a 100,000 people. It is so imperative that this generation’s voice is heard.’ But wait. Is that really a good idea? Many kids don’t know muc... more

“Thoughtful” is a stupid word: it accurately describes many people who never think at all — all they have are good intentions. ... more

We value so highly the ease with which children trust, but we do nothing to give our fellow adults reason to trust as easily. ... more

Apparently, some people consider one night stands to be relationship tests, though the only tests I have ever associated with one night stands are AIDS tests. (If I did not think the result so ugly, I would give in to my desire to make hyphenated words of “one night stand”, “relationship test” and “AIDS test”, given that they are truly compound nouns.) ... more

I should be sorry if by this free confession I should increase the world’s mistrust, but I was a human being and if happiness is ever to be attained in this world it must not be sought through concealment, not at all, nothing firm can come about in that way. Lasting happiness is to be found only in uprightness and sincerity… 1 An epigram for this very journal of mine. Georg Cristoph Licthenberg : The Waste Books : F 165 [ ↩ ]... more