Really looking forward to this. In the libertarian sphere, I'm pretty pro-life compared to the crowd. I tend to fall in line with the thinking that if it's a human it deserves rights and no one can take them away, not even the mother. If it's a glob of cells, not so much... 

The key here, for libertarians I think, is the science. 

In light of your confession (um, no pun intended), you may find this interesting.

Welcome back. 

Oh nice. I heard the author on EconTalk recently. Count me in.

I enjoyed it. I thought it played a solid homage to Wrath, in spite of never coming close to matching, nor, certainly not, exceeding the original.

The admiral's daughter was a real weak link in the cast if you ask me.

Zach Quinto was once again not only the best recast(?), but the best actor of the series. 

The effects were nice as well. I'm glad they have resisted the temptation to go balls out "Lucas" on these new films and fill them up with a bunch of visually detracting crap on the screen for every shot.

I'll be there for the next one.

Yeah, I guess I meant for those that can legally order a 30 rd mag. 

You can get PMAGs pretty easily now too. Surprisingly they are generally found at pre-scare prices.

I've mentioned a couple of these in other posts, but here goes...

A former collegue and facebook friend posted the following gems (not exact quotes, but as close as I can recall):

"I've been reading the Harry Potter series with my daughter and am very concerned that her first impression of government is that the Ministry of Magic, their government, is bad and not to trust it."

On tax day a couple of years ago:

"Today I did the most patriotic thing I can do: pay my taxes."

This one I'll never forget. It comes from my ex-wife's flaming liberal cousin around 3PM 9/11/2001:

"You know, I was taking earlier with some of my friends and we kind of all agreed that in a lot of ways America deserved this."

And probably the worst one ever, compliments of one of my co-workers, many years ago:

"The thing is, Jefferson was a radical, a revolutionary. He would be advocating we blow this whole thing up, because it's not working."

To which I sort of agreed with, until he followed it up with:

"He'd want something more fair like Communism."

I would answer: of course it is.

The modern State is a product of the Left. Individual freedom, liberty and smaller government are the product of people who largely want to live their lives outside the sphere of government.

There is a more direct consequence, though. As you point out, people who work for the government are inherently dependent on it. If you work for the IRS and have that nice public union wage, benefit and pension and along come some people wanting to take away your job you are going to punch back. And it's not just the IRS. It's every government agency and the unions that leech off them.

I'm not disagreeing with you. I just don't know that we're quite at midget basketball league status yet.

Yes. 

I think we all remember when this place was an echo-chamber for all things GOP big win in '12. Does anyone want to return to that?

When I came here I didn't come to hear my own thoughts and opinions blown back in my face with purple smoke. I'm a through-and-through libertarian and I knew my views would be challenged. 

This place isn't going to be taken over by "lefties." Let's all relax and enjoy the opportunity to hear other points of view. Or at the very least exercise our right to ignore people we don't like. Respectfully.

When I run my own board game, comic shop and tapas plate eatery I plan to have a large gentleman manning the door. If you are too pretty and are wearing A&F you will not be permitted to frequent my establishment. I would hope the nanny state would stay out of my way, just as I hope they stay out of Mr. Jefferies' way.

I find your lack of fedora disturbing...

Even when you know what they're doing, it doesn't make sense. Perhaps there was a squirrel or bird or perhaps she was just waiting to see how long it took for you take of picture of her if she sat there in that pose long enough.

Mushu the Himalayan. We call him Moosh for short.

I used to have a pic of myself, but got tired of looking at my mug, as I'm sure was everyone else.

Ironically if they dropped one of those on your cafe experience it might actually enhance it.

Please, if you will, point me to any libertarian supporting such nonsense.