David Z | February 27, 2009
Almost all violent crime can be traced back to the drugs, not because of some inherent quality in the drug itself, and not because of some malevolent human element, rather because the monopoly profits earned by cartels in the drug trade are sufficient to compensate for the costs of war, and the illusion of these profits is sufficient to entice those willing to do the dirty work.
David Z | February 26, 2009
I’ve seen variations on the “repudiate the debt” meme floating around the internet, but the best one I’ve come across to-date, was in Another Extreme Meme That Needs to Get Out There – Default, at Samizdata (if you can skip past all the totally unnecessary, and tangential “kill all muslims” bullshit in the first paragraph [...]
David Z | February 26, 2009
[From time to time, I'm going to start blogging in French, just to try and keep a somewhat functional literacy. I'm already aware that my grammar is horrendous. It always was. Deal with it. Google Translator does a good enough job, deal with it.]
Un justification de l’existence des gouvernements, sélon Hobbes, suggères [...]
David Z | February 26, 2009
I read an interesting blog post a while back called the Austrian delusion. I think the criticism are, for the most part either without merit altogether, or haphazardly miscast as applicable to any “Austrian”, when the plain fact of the matter is that there are people of many different political creeds that are associated [...]
