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This page was last updated through April 31, 2008, on June 22, 2008.

Contents

2008
2007
2006
2005
Personal
Recipes
Series of Posts
Doggerel

2008

new Ben Stein's Exposed
new Beyond Lip-Service
new Blogging as Intellectual Activism
new Brimming with Insight
new A Building is Not an Argument, Either
new A Choice Turn of Phrase
new Dangerous Nonsense in Illinois
new Guidance and Inspiration
new Gushers Come from Somewhere
new The Impostor Syndrome
new "Indeed" Indeed.
new Let's NOT Unite
new Obama: Correct by Accident
new Pragmatism vs. Your Freedom and Time
new Property: A Right, Not a "Privilege"
new Of Ribbons and Wristbands
new The "Right" to Proselytize
new My Second Home Town
new The Servant's Got Your Back?
new The Tyranny of Confusion
new When a Symbol Isn't a Symbol

2007

The Age of the Cockroach
Anarcho-Tyranny "Lite"?
new Anti-Happiness
"Anything That's Peaceful"
new Bad Joke in the New York Times
al-Benedict Strikes Again
Blowing it in Baltimore
Bush Narrows Gap with Gore
Bush's War, NYT's Quagmire
Businessmen Praise Rand
new But what if it were true?
new Can we say, "psychological projection"?
Casey on the Texas Lottery
new Clarence Thomas and Ayn Rand
new Count the Skulls for Jesus
Creeping Sharia
new Data Storage Then and Now
Democracy vs. Freedom
Doublethink Redux
new Dropping Context
new D'Souza's Confession
An Elaborate Ruse
The Emergencies of Ethics
An Exception to Prove the Rule
Faith Hijacked?
Fisk the Skull of Jesus?
Flattery vs. Self-Esteem
Genetics and Reproductive Rights
new The Global War on Carbon
Goldberg Gets Sucker-Punched
The GOP's War on Terror Wagers
Happy (Life on This) Earth Day!
Heidi "Lysenko" Cullen
Hitchens: Not Even Half-Right
new How Times Have Changed
Hung up on the Science
The Impending Labor Crisis
Injustice in the Name of Justice
new Islamofascism: What's in a Name?
It Ain't the Math
It STILL isn't capitalism!
new Koranic Quagmire
Labor vs. Freedom of Speech
The Latest Rand Bashing
new Lessons Learned
new Let's NOT Debate Science
Make the Commies Compete
Marginalizing Freedom
More Freegan Entertainment!
new "Non-Interventionism" vs Self-Defense
Obama Supporter Gets Cheap Lesson
Outdoor Monuments in the NYT
Politeness in Intellectual Discourse
The Power of Faith
new The Practicality of Free Medicine
new Press Answers King's Question
Privatize the Airwaves
Progressively Wrong
Proposed Ban Deficient in "Vitamin F"
Protecting Beast from Man
Quote of the Day
new Religion's Gordian Knot
Right Question, Wrong Answer
Rights: Civil vs. Individual
new The Ring of Gyges
Road Bump in Illinois
Robertson: Terrorists do God's Work
Ruling out Reason
Sarbox used to deputize attorneys?
Self-Assertion-Free Oil
Sneak Preview in Denmark
Sowell on "Adolescent Intellectuals"
Then and Now
Understanding Procrastination
Warming Jihadists
What constitutes "good news"?
Whiffing on "New Atheists"
new Who's Scary? Or What?
new Why Be Well-Informed?
Yes, but is it true?

2006

AMLO: No Patriot
Anarcho-Tyranny
Around the Web on 11-18-06
Bait and Switch -- or Divide and Conquer?
Because They Say So
Beware of Greens Bearing Nukes
Booming Iraq: Cause vs. Effect
Bugs and Glitches vs. Art
Bush: Less than or Equal to Carter?
Bush, Vatican Forget Freedom
Cato: Pretend It's 19th Century
Did Atta "Fly While Moslem"?
An Eye-Opener by ... Todd Gitlin
"Faith-Based" and Inescapable
A Failure to Educate
Fellow Houstonian Wins Reality Show
Five Years Ago
Gassing the Greenhouse Debate
Ghetto "Capitalism"
Glassman Nails Bush to the Wall
Global Chicanery
Global Warming Hysteria Bankruptcy
GOP Folds on Racial Quotas
How Not to Govern
How Not to Promote Religious Tolerance
'Humiliation' vs. Individual Rights
Improving Our Universities
Is the Doomsday Clock Stuck?
John Snow
Katrina Killers, Keystone Chief
Libertarian Medical Experiments
Medworth and Hester on Tracinski
Moral Minority
No one will miss it when it is gone.
Nondiscrimination against Liars?
A One-Man Wrecking Crew
Our Mixed Economy at Work
Package Deal du Jour: Biopiracy
Paternalism vs. Patients
Peril on the Home Front
Physicians as Little Dictators
RAWR
Recycling is Deadly
And speaking of Inhofe...
Sudden Jihad Syndrome
The Classics for Everyone
The Politics of Emergencies
The Positive Feedback of Capitalism
The Religion of Self-Parody
The Scientism of Extremism
They Could've Called it "Rothbardpuram"
Think or Die
Three for the Books
Two War Updates in One
Voter Bribery on Arizona Ballot
Who Needs a 'Fairness' Doctrine ...
Yes. He really said that!

2005

CAIR to the Rescue of School Prayer
Cause, Effect, and Libertarianism
Dems Get Religion
Dennis Prager: A Fisking
Dump the Religious Right
Faith in Practice
Final Solution
From Big Tent to Anti-Concept
The 'Hate Crimes' Bandwagon
Hiding an Agenda behind Facts
Houston and Commercial Desegregation
How Nanny States Perpetuate
Jeb Bush: Unfit for President!!!
Lack of Generalities is General
NOLA's Future: Big Easy or Big Museum?
On Disrespecting the Koran
Principal Stands up to Indulgent Parents
Protecting French at the Expense of the French
Real Desecration
Religionists Reenact Recount
Review of Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
Review: The End of Faith, by Sam Harris
A Strangely Revealing Screed
There you go again!
A Thought Exercise
Using Idiots and Pulling Polls
Vote for Bush or Go to Hell
With "Non-Haters" Like These ...
Whose Riots?
Yousefzadeh Strikes Out Again!

Personal

new Bean Town
The Book Meme
Complete the Thought
Daddy and the One-Armed Man
Eight Random Facts
new Fair Winds and Following Seas
Fat Cat
Five Things
Five Weird Habits
The Fours Revisited
I'm Gonna Regret This
Michael Jackson, RIP
Miss Maple Does Christmas!
My Fact Checker
new My Favorite Faulkner Quote
Off to Quaff
Rites of Spring
Sevens
Ska (and More) Sunday
Some Industrial Espionage
A Stray Meme
Sunday Gumbo
new Ten Beers to Try
A Thanksgiving Revue
Threes
new Victory!
Who is Gus Van Horn?
Why I Write

Recipes

Chili Van Horn
Gumbo Van Horn
Sherry Spaghetti
Spaghetti Van Horn

Series of Posts

Idiot Bumper Stickers, Part 1
Idiot Bumper Stickers, Part 2
Idiot Bumper Stickers, Part 3
Idiot Bumper Stickers, Part 4

Five-Day Cone
NOT a Frabjous Day
The Great Evacuation of '05 -- Part I
The Great Evacuation of '05 -- Part II
The Great Evacuation of '05 -- Part III

Live from Telluride
The Galloping Goose
Ouray

Doggerel

Around the Web on 12-7-06
Chicago


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