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Big Bag o’ Links

Tuesday, July 20th, 2004

1) Read David Beito’s fascinating alternative history of the Amos n’ Andy radio show, and he and Chuck Nuckolls’ Reason on the similarities between Confederate sympathizers and leftist multiculturalists.

2) Will Wilkinson’s posting regularly again, and has about a half dozen posts you oughtta’ take a look at. Try here, here, here, here, here, and here.

3) The Institute for Humane Studies’ summer Koch fellowship gives libertarian students an internship at a D.C.-area public policy organization, and supports that internship with a series of lectures, debates, assignments, readings, and research projects. A few weeks ago, Julian Sanchez, Will Baude and I spoke to them on a panel about blogging. Now the Koch kids have their own blog. Check it out here.

4) Speaking of Will Baude, my post last week about the inherent appeal of lbiertarian women — and his concurrence — has apparently sparked some blogosphere discussion. My favorite is the guy who called me immature, and said I seemed to be saying that, “not only are we right, we’re also better in bed.” That wasn’t exactly my point. But what a great motto! Who wants to make me a Cafe Press bumper sticker?

5) Some of my favorite people work at another great libertarian organization, the Mercatus Center. That’s why it was nice to see Mercatus written up in a front-page Wall Street Journal story last week. Hat tip to Courtney.

6) I was going to tip you off to the bizarre Sandy Berger “are those redacted documents in your pants or are you just happy to see me” story, but Instapundit beat me to it, with a link-rich round-up. I’m thinking Mr. Berger’s probably going to need a legal defense fund soon.

7) The obesity crisis is really getting out of hand. I blame Big Carrot.

8) Should we laugh or cry?

9) Very funny — Esquire’s brutally honest personal ads. Thanks to reader Dan Gabbet for the link.

10) The Drug Policy Alliance’s Baylen Linnekin has a new blog that’s worth your time. Linnekin also wrote an excellent Alternet piece on the Supreme Court’s upcoming medical marijuana case.

11) Not for the bladder-shy.

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10 Responses to “Big Bag o’ Links”

  1. #1 |  brooke |  July 20th, 2004 at 9:33 am

    My favorite bit from the pot article:

    “Pot is no longer the gentle weed of the 1960s and may pose a greater threat than cocaine or even heroin because so many more people use it.”

    Pot becomes more threatening than heroin simply by virtue of being used by more people? Jesus, Tylenol must be lethal!!

  2. #2 |  Garth |  July 20th, 2004 at 10:34 am

    There used to be a bar in SoHo that featured a very public unisex restroom – three stall doors – in which one of the doors went from opaque to clear if the occupant clicked the lock into the fully-locked position. If I remember correctly the occupant did not know that he or she could be seen… Given the crowd that lingered outside the stall in question, I think there was always reason to be suspicious….

    Anyone know if that place still exists and, if so, does it still feature the facility in question?

  3. #3 |  Stormy Dragon |  July 20th, 2004 at 11:15 am

    The rabbit isn’t really an obesity story. It’s not an incredibly fat normally-sized rabbit;, it’s just an incredibly large (although normally proportioned) rabbit.

  4. #4 |  wunder |  July 20th, 2004 at 11:34 am

    interesting the Sandy Berger story isn’t anywhere to be found on the front page of cnn.com.

  5. #5 |  King Arthur |  July 20th, 2004 at 11:35 am

    Run away! Run away!

  6. #6 |  wade |  July 20th, 2004 at 12:01 pm

    that bunny game is a fix!
    in the first round, it wouldn’t let me save any bunnys, i was trying to break the legs of anyone who turned up to get them but they just vanished into thin air.

    The second round was even more fixed, i was trying to take bunnies out of the other peoples pens, and it wouldn’t let me do that..

    how did the bunnies get there? what made them stay in the pens without adequate fencing? How come they didn’t overpopulate and suffocate in their own shit in the second scenario?
    paahhhh!

  7. #7 |  michael |  July 20th, 2004 at 12:21 pm

    someone break out the holy hand grenade.

  8. #8 |  Rich Casebolt |  July 20th, 2004 at 1:11 pm

    Radley, your description of the Sandy Berger story was hilarious.

    It was every bit as good as his I-knew-it-was-wrong-but-didn’t-know-if-it-was-illegal line.

    That line will join Gore’s “no controlling legal authority” and Clinton’s dissertation on the meaning of “is” in the history books … or at least in the distributed archives of the Internet, beyond the reach of the NEA and the AAUP.

    I also liked the Tom MacGuire quote from Instapundit, as well!

  9. #9 |  howdy |  July 20th, 2004 at 2:07 pm

    More potent marijuana will certainly lead to more snacking and therefore greater obesity. I propose a bill to send a message to fat pot smokers….we need a name, though. Something that combines the word ‘Pot’ with a symbol of eating…say a ‘Fork’ and is appropriate for congress…How ’bout Pork!

  10. #10 |  cyclopatra |  July 20th, 2004 at 4:12 pm

    The reefer madness story isn’t even true, and it’s a tactic the ONDCP has tried before, apparently.