Glenn Reynolds and Professor Bainbridge both have recent posts loving on the 7 inch Asus Eee laptop, and although I would like to echo their statements about it being the perfect travel computer for low-intensity use, I have to point out a few items that I think they missed. Professor Bainbridge, for instance, mentioned that the compact keyboard […]
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I have a lot of libertarian leanings. You might say that I’m a libertarian sympathiser. I like small, limited government, fiscal conservatism, transparency, guns, low taxes, free trade, and individual responsibility. I am a greedy capitalist, and I don’t give a crap about who marries whom.
Drugs and prostitution are where I run into trouble with […]
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I’m not usually not much for health care horror stories, because individual failings, though tragic, generally aren’t enough to indict an entire system, but this British woman’s story caught my eye.
She’s quite possibly dying of breast cancer, yet the NHS, the UK’s government-run health system, wouldn’t pay for a life-extending drug (one that’s a standard […]
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