new loyno

From Walter Block:

Want An Excellent Undergraduate Radical Free Enterprise Education?

Then enroll at Loyola University New Orleans for the fall 2006 semester. Yes, Loyola University New Orleans!

Our four member fall 2006 economics department (William Barnett II, Walter Block, Jerry Dauterive and John Levendis) is heavily influenced by the works of Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, Kirzner and other members of the Austrian School of economics, which focuses on private property rights, free markets and limited government. They have published in such scholarly periodicals as the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, the Review of Austrian Economics, Advances in Austrian Economics, the Journal of Libertarian Studies, the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, the Independent Review as well as numerous mainstream scholarly journals. As well, long time libertarian Nick Capaldi teaches business ethics at Loyola, and Stuart Wood, a former student of Israel Kirzner?s, is a member of our finance department.

The libertarian oriented economics club meets twice a month, and includes the following amongst its outside guest speakers: James Buchanan, Tom DiLorenzo, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Guido Huelsmann, Fr. James Schall, S.J., Walter Williams, Tom Woods. This department also features a monthly Austrian Economics Seminar, which is now discussing Human Action by Mises. With only a few economics majors, we have recently sent off some half dozen of our students to graduate schools in economics. We also have a student publication program (see attached) which has succeeded in placing over a dozen student term papers in law reviews and refereed journals in economics.

But isn?t New Orleans now under water? Not a bit of it. While there are vast stretches of the Big Easy that have been negatively impacted by Katrina and not yet rebuilt, the uptown university area where Loyola (and Tulane) is located is as beautiful as it ever has been. As well, that other geographical student focus, the fabled French Quarter, is up and running, ready for business as usual. Further, the crime rate is down, way down. So come on down, and enjoy an excellent education at Loyola University New Orleans.

Yes, application numbers are lower than usual. But this is a great opportunity for students who otherwise might not have thought of Loyola University New Orleans as a place to study. Please contact Walter Block (wblock@loyno.edu) for further information. See also (http://www.loyno.edu/).

Dr. Walter Block, Ph.D.
Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics
College of Business Administration
Loyola University New Orleans
6363 St. Charles Avenue, Box 15, Miller 318
New Orleans, LA 70118
c.v.: http://www.cba.loyno.edu/faculty.html

skullcrusher mountain

So far I’ve been pretty underwhelmed by the “podsafe” music I’ve heard.

Jonathan Coulton‘s “Skullcrusher Mountain” is the first major exception:

Lyrics:

Welcome to my secret lair on Skullcrusher Mountain
I hope that you’ve enjoyed your stay so far
I see you’ve met my assistant Scarface
His appearance is quite disturbing
But I assure you he’s harmless enough
He’s a sweetheart, calls me master
And he has a way of finding pretty things and bringing them to me

I’m so into you
But I’m way too smart for you
Even my henchmen think I’m crazy
I’m not surprised that you agree
If you could find some way to be
A little bit less afraid of me
You’d see the voices that control me from inside my head
Say I shouldn’t kill you yet

I made this half-pony half-monkey monster to please you
But I get the feeling that you don’t like it
What’s with all the screaming’
You like monkeys, you like ponies
Maybe you don’t like monsters so much
Maybe I used too many monkeys
Isn’t it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you’

I’m so into you
But I’m way too smart for you
Even my henchmen think I’m crazy
I’m not surprised that you agree
If you could find some way to be
A little bit less afraid of me
You’d see the voices that control me from inside my head
Say I shouldn’t kill you yet

Picture the two of us alone inside my golden submarine
While up above the waves my doomsday squad ignites the atmosphere
And all the fools who live their foolish lives may find it quite explosive
But it won’t mean half as much to me if I don’t have you here

You know it isn’t easy living here on Skullcrusher Mountain
Maybe you could cut me just a little slack
Would it kill you to be civil?
I’ve been patient, I’ve been gracious
And this mountain is covered with wolves
Hear them howling, my hungry children
Maybe you should stay and have another drink and think about me and you

I’m so into you
But I’m way too smart for you
Even my henchmen think I’m crazy
I’m not surprised that you agree
If you could find some way to be
A little bit less afraid of me
You’d see the voices that control me from inside my head
Say I shouldn’t kill you yet
I shouldn’t kill you yet
I shouldn’t kill you yet