According to Professor August Wilhelm Scheer a whole Quarter Of Germans Happy To Have Chip Implants. If the article is true, then I have only one thing to ask, namely: what is wrong with you people?!. Only someone who willfully takes stupid pills would glibly reply in the affirmative if asked something to the effect of: “hey, you can have shorter lines at the supermarket if you GIVE US YOUR SOUL”. If that sounds unreasonable or intolerant, then here’s the direct quote:

“We just carried out a survey and one out of four people are happy to have a chip planted under their skin for very trivial uses for example to pass gates more quickly at a discotheque for example and to be able to pay for things more quickly in the supermarket,” said Scheer. “The wilingness of the population to accept our technology is certainly given.”

The correct answer to the question of course, is NO. However, if this article is to be believed, then a whole 20.5 million Germans would answer YES.

A few months ago I discovered Frédéric Bastiat’s work “Economic Sophisms”. Much like his other work The Law, Economic Sophisms provides compelling arguments for free market principles. However, unlike The Law, Economic Sophisms uses biting wit, rhetoric, as well as the sort logical precision in order to reduce each argument against a the free market to what it is, a fallacy or worse yet – a sophism.

The copyright holder to the English translation in America is the Foundation for Economic Freedom (or FEE). Recently I contacted FEE and asked for a license to create an audiobook, which was granted. Over the next few weeks I plan to record a chapter of it and make it freely available.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the US Constitution provides an account of the creation of US Constitution and Constitutional law grounded in the events prior to, during, and after ratification. The author, Kevin Gutzman, then proceeds to establish the Constitution has been largely dismantled over time, chiefly by the Judiciary branch.

The weight that the author gives to his argument through countless examples is almost alarming. The biggest downside to is that Gutzman could have cast a wider net, implicating the Legislative and the Executive branches, then again paper is a scarce resource.

Good times

There was some good tips on CNN today about how to save some cash on your next trip to Hawaii.

Often times while I sit and do homework I leave the television on for some random noise. However, I have always been a sucker for pretty colors and flashy things and I just saw something basically crazy on TV.

Apparently I’m not the only one who thought this was strange, as Michael Roston writes: “There’s a good reason your little feline friend can’t wait for mealtime it turns out – it’s because your cat is tripping balls!”

Undergraduate Students-College for Professional Studies
Saturday May 8, 2010; 1:00 pm-3:00 pm
Boettcher Commons
Indoor Televised Viewing Areas: Regis Field House
& Science Amphitheatre

Now, I’m no Democrat, but that’s just funny.

Timothy discovered knock knock jokes today and so he’s been telling variants on this one all evening:

knock knock

who’s there?

banana

banana who?

banana split!

(yuk yuk yuk….)