Assisted suicide, crazy Britain etc

All countries are crazy to some extent. But the British, they have elevated craziness to an art-form. This- As a piece of legal grotesquerie, the attempted arrest of the former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has its funny side. The biggest joke lies in the role of the UN. It was the UN Human Rights [...]

e-wrongs

I read a similar article in the NYT today, but this one in the WSJ (via the Mises blog) on e-publishing rights is very interesting- Random House has sent a letter to literary agents claiming the digital rights to books it published before the emergence of a thriving electronic-book marketplace. In the letter, dated Dec. [...]

Samuelson

From the NYT obituary (via Cafe Hayek) of one of the greatest statist economists of the twentieth century- Mr. Samuelson attracted a brilliant roster of economists to teach or study at the university, among them…Paul Krugman…Joseph E. Stiglitz. Mr. Samuelson wrote one of the most widely used college textbooks in the history of American education. [...]

A lot of CO2

A highly educated (why? because he believes in AGW, that’s why) columnist writes in The Sunday Times (not of India) about his experience dealing with “bubbas” of the British variety- Whoever leaked that clutch of Climategate emails last month must be laughing his socks off. For he has unleashed upon the rest of us the [...]

Hades

I was writing a post defending Roark’s demolition of Cortlandt (ref. The Fountainhead) from what Oliva at the Mises blog called the “Roark Doctrine” and wanted to clarify a small matter relating to contracts and how it affects third parties. In doing so, I stumbled over some very heated arguments on “intellectual property” on the [...]