Monday Miscellany!

[maxomai]

• Nigeria claims that they've had one new case of Ebola since yesterday. What they haven't mentioned --- which is absolutely critical --- is where they found that new case. If in the quarantined population, that's very good. If in the wild, that's very bad news for their containment strategy, and for the spread of the disease.


• Justin Raimondo on how we've returned to the sixties, and not in the fun, Summer Of Love Nostalgia way.


• Julian Assange is talking about leaving the Ecuadorian Embassy soon, presumably for health reasons. Once he steps foot on British soil, he'll likely be immediately arrested and eventually wind up in a US prison for espionage.


• The most potent weapon in the campus rapist's arsenal is alcohol and a predatory eye; on the other hand, the most potent weapon in preventing campus rape is peer pressure among college-aged men. More here.


• Boys' science-themed bedrooms versus girls' science-themed bedrooms, explored here.

Comments

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Justin Raimondo on how we've returned to the sixties, and not in the fun, Summer Of Love Nostalgia way.

There are some interesting points in this piece, until you get to this vile and idiotic nonsense:

In that long ago column, I also wrote:

"In the age of Obama, what the late, great libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard dubbed the welfare-warfare state will take on gargantuan proportions, just as it did under LBJ, both at home and abroad. This is bad news on every front."

Yet there is good news: the backlash is coming. Indeed, it’s already here. Some are calling it "the libertarian moment," and it may be far more tumultuous than the storied Sixties.

In addition to clearly buying into the delusion that libertarianism will ever gain widespread popular appeal, the Johnson welfare state was IMHO a deeply excellent idea that more than halved poverty in the US in a very few years. Anyone who believes that this was a bad thing is someone I don't consider worth listening to on a wide variety of levels.