IT’S ASH WEDNESDAY, so the film noir quote will almost certainly be the only post today. (Besides this one, of course.) Back with lots of goodies tomorrow. Read more

“I guess you don’t remember me, huh, Mae?” “I don’t remember a lot of things.” –Paul Douglas and Barbara Stanwyck, “Clash by Night” Read more

SCREW U. Oh, Yale needs this like it needs a hole in the head… Really, I don’t know what to say to people who think we need to “weaken the taboo on sex.” Here’s a relevant YFP article: “The problem with the Yale sex drive is not that it is too strong, but that it is too weak.” Oh, and the Free Press blog has another great slogan: “Vast. Right. Winged.” Check ’em out. (Give ’em money!) Read more

“You can never depend on girls named Dolores.” –George Raft, “Nocturne” Read more

WENDELL BERRY + VIRGINIA POSTREL = BIG FUN. Check it out, over at The Farm Dole, my anti-farm-subsidies site. (Yes, there is an anti-farm-subsidies site on Blogger. Bet ya didn’t know that.) Read more

BACK IN THE HIGH LIFE AGAIN. Hey look, it’s the ’80s! The National Journal’s Hotline points out all the Reagan-era Dems who hope to make 2004 the Opposites Day version of 1988: Gore, Gephardt, et al. We’re at war with a worldwide, ideologically driven, societally suicidal enemy. The president, a tax-cutting Republican with a devoted wife, is living down his wacky pre-White House career by calling evil things evil. And Marion Barry is running for mayor. (That link takes you... Read more

WHAT ROTH BEAST?: I appreciate the link from Libertarian Samizdata. Really I do. But Natalija Radic’s quickie anti-anti-porn piece leads me to bite the blog that feeds me. I’m not going to do an in-depth discussion of nudie mags because a) you don’t want to read it, do you? and b) this is my blog and I don’t wanna. But as far as I can tell, Radic’s argument boils down to: 1) Porn is natural because people do it and... Read more

“Well, the place looks lived in.” “Yeah, but by what?” –Richard Erdman and Dick Powell, “Cry Danger” Read more

“I’ll never think of our moments together without nausea.” –Brian Donlevy to Helen Walker, “Impact” Read more

FAKE FREE TRADERS: Here’s that article I was looking for–the libertarian case against world trade oversight bodies. Read more