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Reason magazine celebrates it’s 35th birthday by bringing out a list of 35 heroes of freedom who have made the world a groovier place to be. The selection has some of my favourites (Friedman, Hayek, Navratilova, Rand and Simon), but is eclectic (Madonna, Mandela and Willie Nelson) and irreverent (Flynt, Rodman and “the Yuppie”) in […]

Before we start cloning humans, we need to ask ourselves a crucial question. If you push your naked clone off the top of a skyscraper, would it be
a) suicide
b) murder or
c) an obscene clone fall?

Got this joke from the December issue of Reader’ Digest.

We’re back to the basics — to enjoy, ponder and rant about what’s best (and perhaps what’s worst) in the Bharatiya Blogosphere. And no phancy photoos, only bak-bak!
Aashish Chandorkar disagrees with Goldman Sachs on the Demographic Dividend.
Kingsley Jegan stretches a climax. And he’s not faking it!
Shobha gripes about Mee Mumbaikar.
Prashant Kothari does a triple […]

Kingsley decides to have a go at Indian bloggers. Here’s what he writes about AnarCapLib:
In a free market economy, it won’t be necessary for the central enforcer to cut nails. The nails will regulate themselves. For example, if a nail grows too long, it will come into contact with something hard and will be broken […]

In two superb posts, Jonathan Wilde at Catallarchy describes how the blogosphere is an excellent example of free market anarchy and spontaneous order (or kosmos as he calls it).
Even without a central command apparatus, the blogosphere, rather than being chaotic, is a dynamic, living, breathing, adapting, and most of all, structured organism. (italics in original)
Needless […]

In a free society, which of the following contracts should be enforceable?

“If the contractee of the first part becomes so totally incapacitated that he can justifiably be called a living vegetable, the contractee of the second part (Dr…) agrees to administer a poison to him so as to cause his death”
“If either party to this […]

Jivha makes a post that essentially says: “If school dropout Uma Bharati can become CM of Madhya Pradesh, why can’t school dropout Sonia Gandhi become PM of India?”
Then he wants Ms. Bharati’s supporters to
‘justify why an illiterate nun is fit to lead India’s largest state instead of giving me adolescent comparative arguments along the […]