Stuff to Read

Here are some good links for the past few days:

1. Climate Threatens Species at Every Altitude
2. Apparently, tests serve more than just a testing function. (For realz? Why do we fund this stuff?)
3. Colorado Republicans have voted against school breakfast programs because, well, Kent Lambert puts it best: “As a family guy myself with children and grandchildren, I take a very strong responsibility to earn money to feed my own family.” Good thinking, Kent.
4. There’s a new show on Portland that seems easily to be applicable to Boulder as well.
5. Here are the 20 best nicknames in yesterday’s massive mafia bust.
6. A photo of Shanghai in 1990 vs 2010.
7. And finally, why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period.

Not in My Baqyard

This mosque business is getting ridiculous. Here, enjoy:

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Hume in Three Minutes

Monday Fun

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Kant’s Ethics in Three Minutes

Time, As Told by a Psychologist

Law and Border

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Waltocracy

Happy Tax Day. Enjoy!

BFD

Bad Government, No Snack

Libertarians amuse me. Particularly fascinating is their insistence that government can’t get anything right, and that somehow, miraculously, the free market will handle all manner of goods — market and non-market, exchange and non-exchange — with greater efficiency and better quality than any other possible social coordination mechanism. Most of the time, the insanity of libertarians is simply an amusing aside, too stupid to bother with. Sometimes, however, it’s a fabulous parody of itself, as in this humble video screed from Reason [sic]. Read the written article, watch the video below, and see how many logical fallacies you can spot.

I’ll play along too by commenting on the video. More after the jump…