Homage to Icarus

It’s been said before, but a person’s first foray into free cul­ture of any type is often to scratch an itch. For me, my first Wikipedia edit was undo­ing van­dal­ism on the Hernando de Soto Polar page con­flat­ing him with the con­quis­ta­dor of the same name  —  replac­ing his actual birth date with 1500-something, etc.
It’s some­what disappointing […]

The Witch is Dead! The Witch is Dead!
Here’s a gen­tle fist in the air, ded­i­cated to The Wicked Witch of the Midwest, the man who made it accept­able to say “democ­racy” when you mean “free-market cap­i­tal­ism”.
One sum­mary of his posi­tion on Chile described it as “freer mar­kets led to free peo­ple, and that Chile had […]

Good to see more evi­dence that America is now a third-world/developing nation (albeit with toys on credit). Social ser­vices con­tinue on the brink of col­lapse, the gov­ern­ment vio­lates its own laws in the name of “secu­rity from ter­ror­ists,” wealthy cor­po­ra­tions with tight con­nec­tions to the gov­ern­ment get bid-less con­tracts while the coun­try accu­mu­lates ever larger […]