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What will replace my Prē: Android or iPhone?

What will replace my Prē: Android or iPhone?

My Palm Prē Plus is coming to end of its life. Even if HP had not abandoned WebOS all the development was going to be for newer versions of WebOS—versions HP promised I could upgrade to but reneged on that promise. So despite an operating system that I adore

How do market forces prevent gas main explosions?

This post is the first in the Invisible Santa Bunny topic, so named because of a commenter’s wry query about how the «Magical Santa Bunny of the Free Market» [/comment/2184#comment-2184] would address certain problems without legislation, combined with Adam Smith’s famous «invisible hand» [http://en.wikipedia.

A few gay men

A few gay men

Update: this is a joke. Cpt Hill never said any of this. It was lifted from Col Jessep’s monologue in the film A Few Good Men [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104257/]. It would be an appropriate response to Rick Santorum’s answer to Cpt Hill’s question, but

September 22 GOP debate wrapup

September 22 GOP debate wrapup

On Thursday, nine contenders for the GOP nomination for president participated in a televised question-and-answer session hosted by Fox News and Google. As usual, I hesitate to refer to these events as «debates» because they really aren’t debates. There’s not enough time allotted to permit more than a

The elephant in the room

The elephant in the room

Tonight at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern time, nine GOP presidential hopefuls will take the stage in a live question and answer session [http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/21/fox-newsgoogle-debate-draws-nearly-20000-viewer-questions/] intended to familiarize Americans with the candidates. This will be the seventh so-called debate in the 2012 presidential primary

Libertarian: better adjective than noun

Recently I listened to a Commonwealth Club discussion with Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch titled WWLD: What Would Libertarians Do? [http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/video/wwld-what-would-libertarians-do-72511] Gillespie and Welch are co-editors of Reason [http://reason.com/] magazine, which I’ve never read, but is reputed to have a

Got my groove back

Got my groove back

It’s been a tough couple of months. I’ve been pining away for my Moto Guzzi, which has been in the shop. That means more than just an emotional gap in my life; I’ve been less able to get from place to place and have even resorted to