My clever beloved served us a Rothbardian repast last night: Manicotti and Steak (I kid you not)!

And in anticipation of Scott Lahti’s next question, yes I did have Hunan earlier in the weekend, and yes, you could count that as Hunan Action.

(See this old post if you have no idea what I’m talking about. And if you’d care to.)

Via Jeffrey Tucker:

“Smugopedia is a collection of slightly controversial opinions about a variety of subjects. We offer you the chance to buy a fleeting sense of self-satisfaction at the small cost of alienating your friends and loved ones.”

I started this song for Benjamin when he was potty training, but I could never get the last line. His mother finally completed it for me tonight.

To the tune of “Sur le pont d’Avignon”:

Sur le pot, aux Deux Magots
On voit Sartre
On voit Sartre
Sur le pot, aux Deux Magot
On voit Sartre écrire Huis clos

With a death in the family a couple weeks ago, I found I couldn’t focus on words long enough to track a sentence from beginning to end, so I spent an afternoon in Photoshop. As a result, today’s Mises Daily probably got more visual attention than any other I’ve worked on:

Postscript

I’ve never in my life been accused of anti-Semitism. I supposed it had to happen eventually:

Dear Mises Institute,

I’m no fan of Greenspan, but I’m just a little disturbed by the Darth Vader mashup on Mr. O’Connor’s article:

http://mises.org/story/3444

For those not understanding the history of the organization, the combination of “Ludwig von Mises Institute” with the organization being from Austria, displaying an image of a modern-day devil that happens to be, and look, quite Jewish, gives pause to anyone with even a faint memory of the 20th Century.

I’m not Jewish, I don’t like Greenspan, and no one would ever accuse me of being politically correct. I love a good Photoshop joke. This image, unfortunately, unless taken in a very, very big cultural vacuum (which would be decidedly unfortunate in this case), is not one of them.

Oddly this seems diametrically opposed to the politics of the Institute. Perhaps you should re-think the graphic art, and stick to the prose. Or, would that be censorship, and decidedly non-libertarian? I submit that self-censorship, exercised with compassion and restraint, is at the heart of a functional libertarian society.

Just my 2 cents. I’m sure you think it’s worth even less than that :)

I continue to find wonderful (and much less stuffy than you might expect) Bible resources online, e.g.,

www.TheBrickTestament.com

(via FreakingNews.com via MarketBlog.com)

(Thanks to Gil Guillory and the Left Libertarian list)

(I mean: Thanks to Francois Tremblay, who actually created the thing.)