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Or at least I’m not supposed to. This is the cover of The Scorpions’ album, Virgin Killer, released over 30 years ago, and it’s become the focus of a censorship issue because, clearly, it depicts a minor in a state of undress and falls foul of child pornography laws. It’s ...

Robert Epstein, a visiting scholar at UC San Diego, has an opinion piece in this morning’s Los Angeles Times wherein he argues against gay marriage in favor of something much bigger. So, what gives? There is no convincing evidence — absolutely none — that … various forms of romantic partnership ...

A commenter on my post about the appointment of Janet Napolitano to the Obama administration, John Perez, says: I don

Fr Sean Fagan is a Catholic theologian who’s written some great things on the subject of sexuality and theology in his new book What Happened to Sin? Crawley quotes from the book extensively here. I bring this up because I’m interested to note, having read the excerpts, that Fagan would ...

By Ji Lee in Portfolio.com.

His name is Richard Daley, mayor of the city of Chicago, Illinois. Daley is a dunderhead, but he knows how the U.S. Constitution works: it was written by the framers and is interpreted by the courts, the highest of which is the U.S. Supreme Court. He knows that if the ...

Anytime a center-left politician takes office, libertarians like myself watch closely for fear that they’ll take the opportunity to indulge in all the kinds of collectivist ideas their more extreme buddies natter about in their ears constantly. It has to be said – for whatever reason, whether the current crisis ...

It isn’t often that an op-ed gives me chills. This fantastic article by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch follows hot on the heels of Veronique de Rugy’s piece asserting that, in fact, we’re all freer today than we were 40 years ago, and observes even more fully that we are ...

At a time when the news is full of signs the government is growing and politicians are talking about expanding the federal bailout to $1.4 TRILLION, it could be easy to get pessimistic about the state of freedom in America. But a great article by Veronique de Rugy appeared in ...

Hey! That dog just pissed up against your dishwasher! Oh. Sure it was only a wee drop. Aren’t you going to kick it’s arse?

This is the greatest video ever. Ever. Sarah Palin shows up to a turkey farm in order to honor the longstanding Thanksgiving tradition of pardoning a single turkey as Governor of Alaska and stops to talk to reporters while a turkey is fed into a grinder chute behind her. This, ...

I had this blog analyzed by Typealyzer, and it has me pegged as an INTP-type personality on the basis of what I’ve written in this blog (Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving). That’s interesting, because my normal Myers-Briggs typology is ENTJ (Extraverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging). How is my blog different to my ...

The reality that in the year 2008, in the era of YouTube and global broadband internet, satellite TV with hundreds of channels and high-definition, the DVR, Hulu and so much more, an era when people are living free lives choosing entertainment from a staggering array of sources, that to this ...

Napolitano? Janet Napolitano? According to “multiple” sources cited by CNN, the Arizona Governor is Obama’s top choice for Homeland Security Secretary in his cabinet. This amazes me, not because I don’t think we could do worse as David Weigel suggests, but because I thought we could surely do better! I ...

Now it’s her turn to tell her side of the story. The escort whose services were the downfall of New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, Ashley Dupre, speaks to ABC’s Diane Sawyer this Friday night in her first TV interview since the scandal. This story was of particular interest to libertarians ...

You may know that I’ve been a huge admirer of Apple and Apple products for a very long time, and you may also know that I have a great admiration for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and pastafarians too. Now it has become clear that some Apple employees ...

…is not the statement of someone who actually finds dead babies funny. After all, where’s the humor in that? It is instead the statement of someone who finds the shocked reactions of others funny. And therein lies the humor. Or not. ‘Dead babies make me laugh’ was a Facebook group ...

All comments sections, past and present, are now open for comments again after we fixed an SQL database error (don’t ask). You don’t need to provide anything other than a screen name to post comments, so feel free! (Also, we’re libertarians so we’re not keen on censorship unless it’s disruptive.) ...

This economy really has me thinking about my assets and whether I actually have anything to sell that people would like to buy. My two real estate properties are worthless, as are my SUVs which nobody wants either. I can write (which I’m beginning to do more for some online ...

Libertarianism, like radio avertising in a down economy, is hard to sell. It’s the most misunderstood political philosophy around. I can’t tell you how many times people have come up to me and said, “Yeah, but if we don’t have speed limits everybody will crash. You can’t just have a ...