I talked to Mark Sisson for the first time in December of last year. Here I am following up with him last week. Although the Primal Blueprint isn’t solely about weight loss, if you’re considering trying to lose weight by eating lettuce and lowfat this… Read More
Archives for November 2012
Ian Anderson Was Great in Chicago
Catholic Potpourri
I just got this nice endorsement of my 2005 book The Church and the Market : “One need not be a libertarian to appreciate Thomas Woods’ The Church and the Market as a timely and insightful contribution to integrating both the logic of the market and the logic of morality. A correct… Read More
A Former Hawk Offers Thanks
Writes Rob Ostapiuk: I need to personally thank you for opening my eyes and eliminating the one objection I had regarding libertarian ideals. Your books and speeches about military spending completely turned me around. I’ve always been mostly in the Libertarian camp, but I was… Read More
Gary Johnson Sums Up His Case
With the election upon us, Kurt Wallace of Daily Paul Radio talks to Gary Johnson. (Full disclosure: I’m a sponsor of Daily Paul Radio.) Click here to listen .
Music Post #8
In honor of Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson, whom I am seeing in Chicago tomorrow night, here’s a portion of Thick as a Brick (1972), performed at Madison Square Garden in 1978. The whole album was one long song, yet it hit #1 on the Billboard… Read More
Some Things Still Surprise Me
The existence of the Journal of Dracula Studies , for example. (Thanks to Xavier Méra.)
Decision 2012
I thought I was going to read only one or two of the entries, but at lunch yesterday I wound up reading this entire symposium . The American Conservative asked a bunch of contributors to discuss, very briefly, what decision they had made regarding a vote for president (including… Read More
How Politics Warps People
This is only example #27,643, of course, but note how fast these people are willing to come up with on-the-spot excuses for Obama policies they had condemned two minutes earlier when they thought they were Romney policies.