Artist and anti-copyright innovator Nina Paley, creator of Sita Sings the Blues, has posted an edited video with excerpts of her talk “Sita Sings the Blues: a Free Culture Success Story” at The Next H.O.P.E. (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference, July 16 2010 in New York City.
According to a recent article at The Wall Street journal,
“Regulators’ appetite for calorie counts is about to extend beyond restaurants to thousands of other places that offer food, including airplanes, movie theaters and convenience stores”
Convenience Stores? As if proper labeling will help consumers choose between glazed donuts, chocolate glazed donuts or bagels with cream cheese at 6:00 am in the morning.
The intellectual odyssey that laid the foundations for Western civilization began in classical Greece. Unfortunately, Greek thinkers failed in their attempt to grasp the essential principles of the spontaneous market order and of the dynamic process of social cooperation which surrounded them.
Well, it finally happened in my own community. That stupid Bush-era law that rations pseudoephedrine, the ingredient that makes Mucinex and Sudafed work to unstuff the nose, has finally landed someone in the slammer for 20 years. Tanna Nacole Jarrell is 31 years old and she will likely be in jail for 20 years — essentially wrecking her life. The judge said that she is a very very bad woman.
The people over at the Calculated Risk blog had a helpful post today that links to the BLS’s primer on the differences between the “Establishment” employment data and the “Household” employment data.
Tom Woods just delivered his first Mises Academy live session (for his online course The New Deal: History, Economics, and Law) and the student consensus in the public chat is clear: as one student wrote, “great first class!!!” First, Woods gave an outstanding lecture on the origins of the 1929 crash (see his informative slides here). Then he answered topical questions at length.
Corey Robin reviews the two new books on Ayn Rand, including my favorite among them by Jennifer Burns, in this week’s The Nation. It makes for a gripping read, if you can stand the posturing throughout.
