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Largest Dinosaur Ever Discovered

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Awesome nerd moment. They’ve discovered a near-complete skeleton of the most massive land animal in world history, the dinosaur Dreadnoughtus.

The thing weighed 65 tons. That’s 12 elephants. I honestly didn’t know a land-based life form could be that big. How could something like that actually live? How did it actually walk around? Imagine the heart that thing needed to pump blood all over its body. Imagine how much it had to eat to maintain all that muscle and metabolism.

I can just imagine a T-Rex looking up at a Dreadnoughtus and thinking, “Aw, man. How do I kill that thing? I’ll snap my jaw off just biting its foot. Dammit.” Continue reading →

How To Handle Foreign Terrorists (like ISIS)

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ISIS (or IS or ISIL; why do they keep changing their name?) has beheaded two American journalists and continues to make gains in Syria and Iraq, effectively erasing the border between the two counties. They have openly declared America as their enemy. After two useless wars in Iraq, the US is back in Iraq for a third time, bombing people, because This Time It Will Work We Promise™.

This brings up an interesting question. What is the small government, libertarian answer to foreign terrorist groups like ISIS? We already know the right-wing and left-wing answers to threats like this: Continue reading →

Conservatives Love Big Government

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Just because left liberals run everything right now doesn’t mean we should forget that modern-day conservatives are just as bad.

Conservatives are not for small government. Conservatives haven’t actually made government smaller since the Eisenhower administration. Look it up if you don’t believe me.

Left liberals love big government, conservatives love big government. The only difference is the flavor.

Why Do Houses Have Two Floors?

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If you live in a condo or apartment, this won’t apply to you. But if you live in a house like I do, let me ask you a question I’ve been asking for about 20 years.

Why does your house have two floors? Why does it have an upstairs and a downstairs? Does it really need two floors? Why can’t everything be on one floor? I’ve been house-hunting lately and this question as arisen once again.

Why is it that if you are downstairs and need something upstairs, you have to walk up a flight of stairs, grab the item, and walk back down the stairs again? Continue reading →

Failure of the Expendables

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The movie (and franchise) I won’t shut up about finally came out…and flopped big time at the box office. While expected to make $24 million on its opening weekend, which was low, it only made $16 million. It’s been out for over two weeks and hasn’t even made its budget back. On a budget of $90 million, Expendables 3 has only made $86 million worldwide so far. It’s domestic gross is a dreadful $34 million. For comparison, the teen romance movie If I Stay and the comedy Let’s Be Cops have had better daily grosses than Expendables 3. Pierce Brosnan (who is, or was, slated to be in Expendables 4) all by himself beat the Expendables with the movie November Man, which had a bigger weekend gross. Continue reading →

Why The Ice Bucket Challenge Is Getting Very Stupid

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ALS is a serious disease. My uncle, the man who presided over my wedding, was killed by it. It deserves recognition.

At the same time, this ice bucket challenge crap has become ridiculous. Look at the above graph. It clearly shows that societally programmed Americans are throwing massive amounts of money at diseases that kill a relatively small amount of people, just because celebrities are telling us to do so.

As just one example, we could do far more good for the world and get far more bang for our buck if we donated to improve bed nets to prevent malaria than with this ALS stuff. But because Charlie Sheen and Will Smith aren’t talking about malaria, well, there you go. Continue reading →

Now This Is How You Do It

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Now that’s how you take down a dangerous jerkwad without killing him, and without using a gun at all.

I realize this guy wasn’t rushing at a cop when he was taken down, which Michael Brown might have been doing, but still. Is it really that hard?

Let me repeat that I’m a libertarian who is against gun laws, and who has been on-record as stating that the anti-cop, pro-Brown people have been ridiculously overreacting. My point still stands. Taser cartridges have a range of 35 feet; the same range within which Michael Brown was killed. Why can’t you tase a guy instead of shooting him 6 times? Continue reading →

The Ferguson Riots and The Militarization of the Police

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It’s the same exact thing that keeps happening over and over again.

Step 1 – The government does something very, very bad.

Step 2 – In response, citizens protest, go way overboard, and do something very, very bad.

Step 3 – In response, the cops get pissed, go way overboard, and do something very, very bad.

Step 4 – Steps 2 and 3 repeat and escalate over and over again for several weeks.

Step 5 – After much death and destruction, things finally calm down.

Step 6 – Both sides end up being wrong. Continue reading →

Robin Williams Dead

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Robin Williams has passed away at age 63. It looks like suicide.

Few things make me more upset than when a genius dies. Having George Carlin die was bad enough. This is worse, since I grew up with Robin Williams.

Williams was the funniest man in the world. John Cleese and Bill Murray probably tie for second place, but no one was funnier, over the course of his entire career, than Robin Williams.

Since I was a kid, and all the way through my teenage years and adulthood, I watched every single stand up routine he did that was televised in any way. I saw him on stage in person twice. His humor was psychotic as it was perfect. Continue reading →

“You Need Big Government! We Need ROADS!”

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One of the biggest complaints against libertarians is “Well you have to have ROADS don’t you?!?”.

Of course you do. Roads is one of the valid functions of government. The problem is only a teeny tiny faction of your tax dollars actually go to roads. So when you scream about “ROADS!”, you really haven’t checked the numbers.

According to Obama’s 2014 budget, you might be quite shocked at how little of your tax dollars actually go to things government should be doing, like roads. Continue reading →


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