Vice tells the story of how Richard Chaney went from being expelled from Yale and drinking and fighting in his spare time to becoming the most influential Vice-President in history. Written and directed by Adam McKay who also directed The Big Short, Vice employs the same techniques that made The Big Short one of, if not the, best movies to address the 2008 financial crisis. Like the Big Short, Vice uses a short entertaining vignette to explain complex concepts. The film also has an excellent cast, starting with Christian Bale as Dick Cheney and Amy Adams as Liz Cheney (who the film...
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The Antiwar Comic: Some Problems With Trump
Interesting comments with this one. For a long time, I was accused of defending Trump, now that I'm critical of him, those who yelled at me before praise me and vice versa. More comics at the Webcomic Factory.
Bring Me Men: A Review Of “First Man”
I suppose the review to follow isn't all too apropos of Libertarianism, so to start I'll mention two ways in which it relates. First, of all the bad things The Empire has done, Neil Armstrong's footprint on The Moon represents probably the best thing it has done. Make no mistake, the effort was almost certainly a waste of money, and an incredibly unnecessary art project given the ultimate outcome. Regardless, the achievement transcends the cost-equivalent lost opportunity of funding welfare XX% over XX years. That's not to say the wealth wasn't wasted at the expense of poor and rich...
The Great Ron Paul, Smeared Again
So a staffer working for Ron Paul made a terrible mistake today and tweeted out a picture which included very ugly stereotype caricatures of Jews, blacks and I'm not sure who-all. They deleted it immediately after followers replied pointing out the caricatures at the bottom. But the vultures at the Hill, Reason and other places pounced. So here's some things about that: Again, the staffer deleted it immediately and then tweeted out an explanation that Dr. Paul does not tweet himself -- which is obvious to anyone who follows him on Twitter, like myself: the only Tweets from that account...
The Antiwar Comic: The One Way Debate
Surprisingly nice comments on this one in imgur calling it nuanced. Perhaps they were being ironic? I don't know. This is all I hear when I try to discuss these things. For more comics visit The Webcomic Factory.
What We Aren’t Being Told About Myanmar?
The narrative we’re being served on Myanmar is a cartoon. On the one hand we have villains — who have conveniently already been subject to “liberal humanitarian” demonization for years now — who have allegedly decided to go on a campaign of gang rape, infanticide and arson just because it’s Tuesday. On the other side we have pathetic victims who can do nothing but suffer and flee the atrocities against them, albeit they also have a goody-goody armed group in their midst trying to fight back, but one that is allegedly too small and insignificant to affect events in any meaningful way....
Saturday Morning Cartoons
Haha. If you've got the patience, check out Cathy Young and Reason magazine's ridiculous attack on Ron Paul and Antiwar.com to go along with a giant steaming pile of Tom Palmer horseshit about the most dangerous threat to libertarianism -- Tsar Vlad the Terrible of none other than RUSSIA!!!! DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNN. You know, because all right wing nationalism in the world is controlled by the Kremlin's 5th International or something and also Sputnik! Update: Raimondo refutes this nonsense here....
Libertarian Law Is More Humane
I've been reviewing David Friedman's The Machinery of Freedom for an upcoming article. I want to think about how Libertarian ideas for decentralized law could be applied in the realm of international politics. One thing that strikes me whenever I read about these ideas is what a humane vision of law they present. Libertarian "anarcho-capitalist" law supposes that firms in a free market can give consumers access to safety and justice services in the absence of a monopoly state. Most of the thought experiments in this vein suppose that justice will come in the form of economic...
The Antiwar Comic: Condolence Payment
Today's comic is based on a recent article I saw on Reuters. I can only imagine the Kafka-esqe feeling those people must have getting money like that. For more comics, visit the Webcomic Factory.
The Antiwar Comic: The Russians Are Coming!
Will this election end? I'm sure we're all going to have lots to criticize the Donald about in the coming months, but Democrat Deadenders are really making it difficult with this nonsense. I mean, if they stopped to think about it, do you really want to trust the CIA? More comics at The Webcomic...