Curt Doolittle

Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • whole narrative hasn’t made sense to me. I could have told you this. It doesn’t

    http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/oct/20/government-trafficking-enquiry-failsThis whole narrative hasn’t made sense to me.

    I could have told you this. It doesn’t make sense. I mean, as far as I can tell, it’s just an easy way to make a lot more money than they can by other means. Sex for drugs is one thing. But at least around here, you can’t tell the prostitutes (we don’t have ‘hookers’ here) from the average girls. (Veronika can. I can’t.) I mean in a country where you make about $800 a month if you’re lucky, and 1000 if you’re very lucky, $200-$300 for an hour’s worth of work on friday and saturday night can double your monthly income.

    I mean, at this fairly upscale restaurant the other night some girl went through five guys in the course of six hours. Looked like she walked out of a Elle advertisement. Weird. I mean, I only saw the first two but my friend was who works there was texting me during the entire event. (I hope she showered in between. ick… I mean. Seriously.)

    But that’s two months salary around here in one evening of sport sex.

    Very strange world. Surreal.

    I really would like to write a paper on this economics and incentives in Ukrainian prostitution but people already think all sorts of insane nonsense about me, and I dont need to pour gasoline on those ideas.

    I have a friend to tends a bar in one of the strip clubs here and through him I wheedled my way into going drinking with management and owners, and sort of spent a couple of evenings going through the business models of all the different shops in town. Is a hysterical business. It’s really not much different from any other kind of retail.

    The most interesting thing, is that they CAN’T hire prostitutes exclusively. There wouldn’t be anyone to do the dancing on busy nights. In any given club some percentage of girls work ‘without sex’. And there are older women who teach them how to do it. (how to be interesting and get they guys to spend money on drinks and food and other girls). It’s like a commission sales job. The prostitutes make the house a lot more money. But they are more in demand and have more control over their schedules and work. The ‘dancers’ are basically salespeople.

    Every club has to pay off some politician or other and most clubs are partly owned by someone in the bureaucracy who is a silent partner. They pay the cops to stay away. But that doesn’t necessarily stop them if you create a problem.

    Anyway. My two cents.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-25 17:08:00 UTC

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYtbEJfQtDI

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-25 14:37:00 UTC

  • “…in substance Mussolini’s prediction was fulfilled: most of the world’s peopl

    “…in substance Mussolini’s prediction was fulfilled: most of the world’s people in the second half of the twentieth century were ruled by governments which were closer in practice to Fascism than they were either to liberalism or to Marxism-Leninism.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-25 04:51:00 UTC

  • American Mood Ring. lol

    http://science.time.com/2013/10/22/the-united-states-of-attitude-an-interactive-guide-to-americas-moods/Fun. American Mood Ring. lol

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-25 04:50:00 UTC

  • GO GET ‘EM BIBI 🙂 You either got it. Or you don’t. You’re either willing or you

    GO GET ‘EM BIBI 🙂

    You either got it. Or you don’t. You’re either willing or you’re not.

    Complete nonsense. Political drivel. Leftist ‘words’.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-24 13:04:00 UTC

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    http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/why-men-arent-really-men-anymore/

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-22 16:10:00 UTC

  • WASHINGTON D. C. ? The “C” stands for “CRIMINALS”. The “District of Criminals.”

    WASHINGTON D. C. ?

    The “C” stands for “CRIMINALS”. The “District of Criminals.” Perfect.

    (Never heard that one before today. I’ve been missing out.)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-22 09:47:00 UTC

  • NAME-CALLING It used to be a problem. I mean. Before we had data. Before we had

    NAME-CALLING

    It used to be a problem. I mean. Before we had data. Before we had empirical evidence. It used to be hard to defend conservatives.

    They are so buried in multi-axial moral spaghetti that they dont themselves know what they’re saying.

    But that just mean’s their A-RATIONAL, it doesn’t mean they’re IRRATIONAL. There is a difference.

    But you know, the data is just piling up. Mountains of it. Daily. Since about 1990. And we’ve got pretty much critical mass now.

    They’re right about just about everything – except, obviously, homosexuality. That’s what the data says.

    Clear as day.

    The left has got to use every race, gender, and culture card possible while they carry any weight at all. Personally I love getting them now. ‘Cause we have data. We have lots of it.

    WELCOME TO THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT.

    Those damned conservatives were mostly right.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-21 12:41:00 UTC

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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/19/marriage-study_n_4299002.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-21 03:39:00 UTC

  • THE BHL’S, SENTIMENT VS REASON, AND ASKING FOR AN ARGUMENT Stephan Kinsella has

    THE BHL’S, SENTIMENT VS REASON, AND ASKING FOR AN ARGUMENT

    Stephan Kinsella has me thinking about our socially conscious friends: the BHL.

    And, again, I enthusiastically support ANY pursuit of liberty, wherever possible, by whomever possible. The more the merrier. The more positive the better.

    I think that, sure, adding ‘social compassion’ it’s an attractive means of making libertarianism palatable for the mainstream. If you can’t fight off the proletarians, then you can simply buy them off. I’ve certainly advocated the same strategy.

    Social compassion is certainly a way to destroy the myth of equality, and destroy the nuclear family, as well as the pressure to create and keep the nuclear family. So, that helps correct the erroneous assumptions of equality of interest, and that liberty is a universal desire, instead of the priority of a permanent minority.

    I mean, but, I think that the most likely outcome, without a ‘package deal’ is that we would both redistribute more money, AND get less freedom in exchange. Because the moral hazard would increase the weight of the unproductive, and the state would use that lever to increase extraction from us.

    I guess, what I’d like to see from the BHL’s is, some argument that supports their position by rational rather than sentimental means.

    Propertarianism can be used to rationally defend the BHL’s objective WITHOUT sacrificing, any way, the sanctity of individual property rights, or requiring charity. Compassion is a camel’s nose and there is no end to its infiltration of the tent of liberty.

    Propertarianism requires that you decide whether the reward for respecting property rights (and manners, ethics, morals and norms) is simply access to the market, or whether additional dividends are warranted for that investment.

    I think, intuitively, people feel that they are due more than access. And that (a) commissions are due on production and (b) dividends are due to ‘shareholders’, where shareholder-ship is obtained by, respect for property rights.

    This is a descriptive, not normative ethical explanation of what people actually think, feel, and do. It asks ‘at what point have I paid for my property rights? And what is my dividend on that ownership?

    But this strategy is incompatible with open immigration. And open immigration is incompatible with property rights – at least without full and immediate adoption of all manners, ethics, morals and norms. The most important of which, is the norm of private property, without which, the formal institutions of private property cannot exist.

    At least it is not possible to demonstrate otherwise.

    Give them some love too:

    http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-21 02:36:00 UTC