The NY Times reports on urban cavemen or paleos, including Black Swan author Nassim Taleb. They eat meat, fast for up to 36 hours at a stretch, walk, work out vigorously, give blood frequently and “several identify themselves as libertarians.”
Published today at Libertarian Papers: “Action-Based Jurisprudence: Praxeological Legal Theory in Relation to Economic Theory, Ethics, and Legal Practice,” Vol. 3 (2011), Art. No. 19, by Konrad Graf.
From Franklin Foer’s How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization comes this description of the Ukrainian approach to soccer:
With oil prices off their highs, his country in a recession and prices soaring, President Hugo Chavez devalued the bolivar and “vowed to fight speculation and price increases that could result from the devaluation.”
At Caracas’s middle-class Sambil shopping mall, lines at cashiers reached 50-deep. Carmen Blanco, a 28-year-old accountant, waited to buy a 42-inch flat-screen television she doesn’t need because she already has one at home.
Everyone knows the rule: drink no liquor before noon. How insufferable such advice is! It has caused morning drinkers to hide their habits, deny them when confronted, and otherwise feel like they are doing something wrong or immoral or socially intolerable, a combination which leads to other forms of pathology.
What a difference a decade can make. Had Ridley Scott’s film Kingdom of Heaven — which portrays the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in the 12th century between the second and third crusade — come out ten years ago, the film and its message would have looked very different and far less plausible than it looks now.
