As part of the 6th Annual Roger Ebert Overlooked Film Festival, Jack Valenti (Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America) gave a speech and took questions today at University of Illinois, where I attend school. Jack’s speech was part of his “Moral Imperative” speaking tour, and contained many of the elements of […]

Apparently some bloggers have been allowed to get GMail accounts. I want one!
update (May 18th): I actually received a GMail account pretty soon after this post, through Blogger. I haven’t used it much yet….

I’ve been doing a lot of political reading today, especially about free markets and libertarianism. I found this surreal yet informative flash-based introduction to the fundamental principles of libertarianism. It uses iconic images, brief phrases, and simple animation to convey a (to me) fairly persuasive argument for rights-based libertarianism.
I read a Great Theories of […]