1. Is the West so much better than Russia? Mark
Steyn thinks free speech is dwindling here, too.
2. I’ve had the author of a book about Ukraine complain to
me that Ron and Rand Paul don’t seem to be onboard with Western military
intervention over there, but -- much as I dislike Putin -- I honestly have a
hard time seeing how Eastern-Ukrainian governance founded on a
Russia-influenced referendum is so much
worse than Western-Ukrainian governance founded on a Western-backed,
EU-encouraged coup that it warrants us ending up in World War III.
3. Regardless, I admire this Ukrainian parkour dog
(h/t Franc Pohole).
4. The dog’s skills are not so unlike those of Batroc the
Leaper, one of the villains in the new Captain America movie. And I just learned that someone I knew in
college writes for the show Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D. -- maybe she should reuse Batroc in that series. And was Hydra haphazardly controlling the
weather for the past few weeks, by the way?
5. That question is not
addressed in this (short) new
YouTube video of Gerard Perry and me discussing three new things with Scarlett
Johansson in them: the aforementioned Captain
America: The Winter Soldier, the eerie indie sci-fi film Under the Skin (in which ScarJo is at long
last completely naked), and...
6. ...the
trailer for her upcoming superhero-ish action film Lucy. Is there anything ScarJo
can't do? And she was already the voice
of an A.I. program last year in Her
(a much better film than Transcendence,
with Johnny Depp as a less friendly A.I. program).
7. And if you say I’m oppressing ScarJo by calling her hot,
consider this
article reminding us of the dangers of female privilege and this
blog entry lamenting Jeffrey Tucker’s recent unfortunate swing from
right-libertarian to left-libertarian.
8. Maybe the closest thing in the real world lately to a
villainous organization as destructive as Hydra is those anti-technology,
anti-prosperity, anti-Google protesters out in San Francisco lately, one
of whom has even vowed “gun down six of us” and more will rise to take their
place (h/t Virginia Postrel). Hail
Hydra! Chop off one head, two shall take
its place! #OccupySHIELD!
9. Muppet liberation is at hand, at least: Kermit is
Morpheus to Fozzie’s Neo in this
disturbing, ad libbed outtake from the production of one of my favorite films,
The Muppet Movie (h/t Alicina Memar
and Perry Metzger).
10. That actual communist they keep putting on The Independents was of course, like
many of his leftist brethren, recently praising Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, but
this
piece does a nice job of taking it down a notch (h/t David Friedman -- but
not that David Friedman).
11. Would that more leftists spent time worrying, as Scott
Kaufman does in this Raw Story piece, about
things like the FDA hiking beer prices.
12. Econ isn’t all about stats, but stats can be a helpful
reality check: Despite me constantly feeling I’ve neglected my blog, the
numbers say I’ve apparently posted roughly 2 days out of 3 since late
2006(!).
But as I keep promising, it probably is time to mostly-exit
the Web (including about four anarcho-capitalist Facebook pages I love dearly
but have lost too much time to) and attend to other things (for now). This video critique may even
give us a new reason to be wary of Facebook.
And what fresh hell is this wherein many popular
publications’ links don’t work if you click on them on someone’s personal
Facebook page but do if you click on them in your newsfeed? You know what, for once, instead of worrying
about it, I’m gonna do the efficient thing and give up so I can attend to more
important projects.
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