We talk a lot around about all the freedoms that are being constantly eroded away. Sometimes it’s nice to take a moment to remember all the things that aren’t yet illegal…
(Yes, this is done in the style of Schoolhouse Rock, so appreciate the cleverness. And yes, the main voice you hear is Chris Hardwick who evidently is a renaissance man (who the hell knew he was part of a comedy duo?) While this version is kind of cool, I actually found watching them on stage to be even funnier…but that clip isn’t even on Comedy Central’s website…so if you can find it, please share.)
[…] The constitutional conservative critique, as articulated by Perry, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and others, goes far beyond the familiar laments about activist judges. It is, at bottom, an argument against the 20th century — specifically against the notion that the Constitution envisions and empowers a muscular federal government able to ensure that its citizens have clean air, healthy food and safe workplaces.
To grasp the radical nature of the constitutional conservative approach, consider the record of every Republican president since the New Deal.[…]
I love Penn, but I need to be pointed to the good segments of PennPoint because I just can’t bring myself to watch it regularly. The camera setups and the pacing back and forth and the handheld cam…it’s all just too distracting and gaggy. I wish he would find a better way to try and make a talking head setup entertaining.
This is interesting, thought-provoking and relevant on so many levels:
The future is here! The future officially started a few years ago, great time to be alive. I hope the reactionaries don’t tare it down.
Private space shuttles are viable. Who ever said that the government has to do this stuff?
The development of this shuttle makes a good argument for supply-side economics: Everyone can see that it requires scarce resources to be produced: metal, oil, engineers; resources with alternative uses. No amount of “demand” or expropriating money from “the rich” can make this shuttle appear out of thin air.
If the structure of production wasn’t distorted by intervention, and if humanity hadn’t wasted huge amounts of resources on bombs in the last century, how much sooner would we have gotten this shuttle? Maybe decades ago? Maybe space-travel would be commonly available to every “poor” person like microwave ovens and air-conditioning are today?
if humanity hadn’t wasted huge amounts of resources on bombs in the last century
I might be wrong, but the Space Race was propelled by the need to gain capability to deliver the bombs created by the Arms Race. I think that without war we might have not had these achievements. I do think we would have invested the money to make our lives on Earth better rather than trying to get to Mars.
