Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • INFORMATIONAL CONTENT ON THE JACKET LINING. BY ROBERT GRAHAM. Men love mechanica

    http://www.robertgraham.us/buoy-sport-coat.htmlFASHION: INFORMATIONAL CONTENT ON THE JACKET LINING. BY ROBERT GRAHAM.

    Men love mechanical content whether its diagrams, formulae, theorems, arguments.

    A little secret technical information right next to you. It will keep you spiritually warm and fuzzy whe out there amidst the chaos.

    RG has become a little too dominated by hispanic patterns for my tastes. But now and again they priduce a piece thats enough victorian in symbolism to appeal to me.

    ( I have the most outrageous Liberace inspired jacket for club wear by robert graham. But theyd never let me into straight clubs in Kiev wearing it. Lol. )

    http://www.robertgraham.us/shopmen/sportcoats/buoy-sport-coat.html?utm_source=cc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Image_Buoy_Sport_Coat&utm_campaign=Jan26-13_SportCoats_Buoy_Email

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-26 20:54:00 UTC

  • PSYCHOLOGICAL GAME OF THE DAY. Pulling out of a hotel parking lot in to traffic.

    PSYCHOLOGICAL GAME OF THE DAY.

    Pulling out of a hotel parking lot in to traffic.

    Waiting.

    Blonde boy, thin hair, black cap with skateboard asks “please. Please. Give me your car. Please?”

    Mind races through multitude of life lessons i might deliver at this moment.

    I choose one.

    “What will you trade me for it?”

    Shock. Open mouth. Silence. Fantasies fill his mind.

    Before he can gater his wits “I want your soul.”

    Incomprehension. Twinge of fear.

    “I am the devil. I want your soul.”. I smile. “For the car.”

    Half smile mixed with confusion. “yes!?”

    “I thought so. I have it already.”

    Smile. Notice a few horrified adult onlookers. Pull into traffic.

    Never going to forget that moment. I’m sure.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-26 17:16:00 UTC

  • READ: DAVID MAMET ON GUNS – HUMAN NATURE AND GOVERNMENT

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/01/28/gun-laws-and-the-fools-of-chelm-by-david-mamet.htmlMUST READ: DAVID MAMET ON GUNS – HUMAN NATURE AND GOVERNMENT.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-25 23:21:00 UTC

  • JUST TO PUT MY MONEY WHERE MY MOUTH IS: I’M SHORTING MICROSOFT

    JUST TO PUT MY MONEY WHERE MY MOUTH IS: I’M SHORTING MICROSOFT

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-23 18:04:00 UTC

  • I know we men are an incomprehensible challenge to women, and I know t

    <Rant On>

    I know we men are an incomprehensible challenge to women, and I know that for almost half of women who have to ‘settle’ they’re carrying someone who may not carry his fair share. But the fact of the matter is that there are just as many women who are either ‘crazy’ or vampires or elegantly sophisticated prostitutes or all of the above. And I think that’s even worse that some unemployed guy who sits around drinking beer and watching sports on television. I mean, women can get rid of us by walking away. For some reason, we’re supposed to give permanent transfusions to vampires. Argh.

    <Rant Off>

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-22 08:59:00 UTC

  • Prague is fine. My initial reaction is the boat or somewhere sunny, but a) we wa

    Prague is fine. My initial reaction is the boat or somewhere sunny, but a) we want a lot to do, and there is a lot to do in Prague, and b) its easy to get there and not easy to get to plenty of other places that are sunny and c) its cheap.

    I think two nights is fine. This should be our off season. Not our big meet. Some of us can come a day or two early if we want to, or stay a day later.

    Finding a hotel with enough rooms available should be easy. This is how hotels make money. Every hotel has an event manager for these kinds of things.

    My schedule is much more flexible than everyone else’s. I think that if it is too far off that we lose momentum. If it is too near we can’t do a good job. So late march or early april is probably about right.

    We do need to have a conference room where we can do a few presentations. Otherwise we’re just a roving band of alcoholic libertarians. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-22 08:21:00 UTC

  • I NEED A “FIX” OF PFS FRIENDS We really need a purely casual ‘off season’ meetin

    I NEED A “FIX” OF PFS FRIENDS

    We really need a purely casual ‘off season’ meeting somewhere. A year is too long to last between visits.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-21 13:10:00 UTC

  • I TRY NOT TO SHARE SENTIMENTAL ARGUMENTATION I’d rather argue at the other end o

    I TRY NOT TO SHARE SENTIMENTAL ARGUMENTATION

    I’d rather argue at the other end of the intellectual spectrum. But this image is so good that I have to share it on my timeline.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-21 11:04:00 UTC

  • FACEBOOK NEEDS TO SAVE DRAFTS IF IT”S GOING TO CRASH ALL THE TIME (argh)

    FACEBOOK NEEDS TO SAVE DRAFTS IF IT”S GOING TO CRASH ALL THE TIME

    (argh)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-21 10:57:00 UTC

  • WE LEARN FROM WHO WE CAN UNDERSTAND If you can access Sowell, Hoppe, Hayek, Haid

    WE LEARN FROM WHO WE CAN UNDERSTAND

    If you can access Sowell, Hoppe, Hayek, Haidt, and Mises then you will make better arguments. If you can access Bastiat, Rothbard and Friedman you will make adequate arguments. But if pop-libertarians activate your sentiments, and with activated sentiments you promote libertarian ideas, then I’m perfectly happy that you do a good yeoman’s labor, even if your arguments aren’t as strong as they could be or your solutions as complete and possible as they seem to be.

    Liberty need not be for philosophers alone. If you have libertarian sentiments, you need not have libertarian economics, history and analytical philosophy. All you need is a handful of moral parables to promote libertarianism.

    You will reach a lot more people more effectively than those of us who write convoluted philosophical proofs referring to empirical evidence in an effort to combat the propaganda, proofs and evidence of the opposition.

    At about every fifteen points of IQ we think very differently. Some of us in layers of abstractions, others in empirical analysis, others of us historical references, others in moral analogy and still others in moral sentiments. We think differently even if we all value liberty similarly, regardless of our method and mode of thinking.

    The desire for Liberty at its core is a sentiment: a desire, an instinct, an emotional affiliation, a preference. No matter how we express it, and which level of experience or abstraction we use to argue in favor of it – we all express our preference for liberty to those with whom we share a common language.

    Liberty doesn’t need to be precise. It needs to be popular.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-20 10:18:00 UTC