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“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787
Here's my thoughts on prohibitions: prohibitions don't work. Prohibition of alcohol? Didn't work out well. Prohibition of drugs? Didn't work out well. Prohibition of sex work? Didn't work out well. Prohibition of immigrants? You get the idea.
ping @blondealex
If dirt law isn't your thing, @PacificLegal is also seeking papers related to water law 🚿🌊🥤🤽♀️🌧️ pacificlegal.org/call-for-paper…
We are governed by idiots.
Great Moments in Central Planning
I’m sitting here imagining the outrage if Biden had orchestrated a prisoner swap to free an American convicted killer. Every conservative show & podcast would be consumed with it for weeks. Pundits would call it part of his plot to abolish law & order. It would be everywhere.
We are governed by idiots.
To recap, Rubio kidnapped hundreds of Venezuelans, many of them without a criminal record, and swapped them for 10 Americans incarcerated in Venezuela, including a man convicted of three homicides in Madrid.
Mickey Mantle had a lot of problems off the field, but Joe DiMaggio was a sanctimonious cheapskate who physically abused women.
In 1995, as Mickey Mantle began to succumb to liver cancer, almost certainly a result of his alcoholism, which only worsened with age, Joe DiMaggio still held on to his decades-long animosity towards Mantle. DiMaggio would later tell his biographer, Dr. Rock Positano: "You know,…
50 years ago kids were rebelling against old people dancing to Lawrence Welk, today they're rebelling against old people having Margaritaville mazola orgies at the Villages
Sacramento uses smart electric meters To spy on residents. The city’s police consider “high” power consumption evidence of cannabis cultivation. reason.com/2025/07/23/sac… via @reason
This is one of the most amazing things i've seen on the Internet: Palestinian-American activist berates black Americans for ALMOST 9 MINUTES for getting mad at the racism they experienced in the West Bank. "You don't understand Paletinian culture!!". Watch the whole thing.
Palestinian-American woman goes to the West Bank with her Black friends to volunteer and distribute food and medical supplies. Her friends are insulted and called ‘monkeys’ and ‘slaves’ by Palestinians throughout the entire trip, which they complained about. She gets mad and…
If dirt law isn't your thing, @PacificLegal is also seeking papers related to water law 🚿🌊🥤🤽♀️🌧️ pacificlegal.org/call-for-paper…
Every dirt lawyer's dream: ruminate with @PacificLegal, @StephenSDavis @EHSlattery @ethanwb about the bundle of sticks. pacificlegal.org/call-for-paper…
I happened to catch Season 1, Episode 1 live at 10 pm in 1997 in my living room with a childhood friend, and we laughed so, so hard. It’s one of few times in my life I could tell in the moment I was seeing something totally new. Glad for them. It’s still so good.
Paramount has struck a 5-year deal worth $1.5B with 'South Park' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone 💰 They’ll produce 10 new episodes per year (via @latimes)
Noble Immigrant: My religion instructs me to hate you; hate your liberties and freedoms; hate your religion; hate your heritage; hate your culture; hate your children; hate your Jews; hate your dogs; hate your women's clitorises; hate your art; hate your music; hate your…
ICE releases deaf Mongolian immigrant after holding him for months without interpreter calmatters.org/justice/2025/0…
Usually when I see someone saying something awful is capitalism they are describing something that 1) is genuinely awful 2) is a consequence of material scarcity and 3) has gotten much much less bad under capitalism
"While the world fixates on Donald Trump’s populist cocktail of reciprocal tariffs and big, beautiful deficits, @JMilei is delivering a man-made miracle that should gladden the heart of every classical economist and quicken the pulse of all political libertarians." 1/5
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Veronica Lake flew solo from Los Angeles to New York after earning her pilot’s license, 1946
Back in 1987, I interviewed #OzzyOsbourne for the heavy metal mag 'Metallix: It'll Rock You To Shreds!' while he was promoting Randy Rhoads Tribute. I was stunned by what a nice and affable person he was and he talked about how much he loved @PaulMcCartney and the Beatles, among…
Ozzy Osbourne meeting his lifelong idol, Paul McCartney in 2001.