Gardner Goldsmith, the host of the Liberty Conspiracy talk show on the Free Talk Live network, kindly had me on his show last week to talk about Public Policy Hooligan and various political shenanigans. I met Gard nine years ago when I spoke in New Hampshire at the Free State Project’s Porcfest, and it was […]
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Zesty Times at New Hampshire Liberty Forum
I gave a couple talks at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum last week. This is a program of the Free State Project – and it was great to see how much further the Free Staters have gotten since the last time I visited New Hampshire. These folks are putting their shoulder behind making freedom a […]
Broader View of my 1990 Office Chaos
There is the NSFW acronym. Is there a snappy equivalent for NSFNYT — Not Suitable for the New York Times? Following up on yesterday’s post on the New York Times “Writer’s Rooms” pictorial – here’s a broader take on my 1990 office. (Thanks for the nudge, Tom Blanton). Joyce Carol Oates would definitely not have been […]
New York Times’ Perverse Perspective on Writers’ Rooms
The New York Times has an unintentionally hilarious series of photos of “The Writer’s Room” – the personal spaces where five authors write their books. Joyce Carol Oates (pictured at left) sez: “Like all writers, I have made my writing room a sanctuary of the soul.” Geez. None of these folks seem to […]
FBI Warning Omits Season’s Biggest Predators
The FBI issued a Valentine’s Day themed-press release warning of the danger of online dating scams: “Millions of Americans visit online dating websites every year hoping to find a companion or even a soulmate. But as Valentine’s Day gets closer, we want to warn you that criminals use these sites, too, looking to turn the lonely and […]
Public Policy Hooligan Reviewed by San Diego’s Bob Sale
Bob Sale, a Canadian drummer living in San Diego, kindly posted a review of Public Policy Hooligan on Amazon yesterday: Memoirs of A(nother) Superfluous Man It’s always a joy and personally helpful to read the memoirs and realization of the imperative for individual liberty from someone who’s been at the center of the storm. Such […]
Leipzig Church Memories: Socialism’s Forgotten Toll
The New York Review of Books posted this great painting by Mendelssohn of the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. I wrote about that seeing that church in Public Policy Hooligan – and in a 1987 New York Times article on how socialism was ruining the East Bloc. Here’s the riff from Hooligan – from a jaunt […]
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