By • Jul 04,2005

The dukes of Kelo

In the very first episode of the first season of the Dukes of Hazzard, the Hazzard County Health Department threatens to close a local orphanage unless its private owners can bring...

By • Jul 04,2005

Safe boxing

Since this is my first piece for a magazine with “brain” in the title, I figure I can’t go wrong writing about somebody’s brain. That somebody is “Baby” Joe Mesi,...

By • Jun 27,2005

Live 8 not that great

Despite what Bob Geldof might think, what Africa needs is capitalism, not a bigger handout that will inevitably fall into the wrong hands.

By • Jun 27,2005

The libertarian bore

Understanding the implosion of the Libertarian Bore: the perfect mirror image of the Marxist who constantly ruins everyone else's dinner with his incessant dialectics.

By • Jun 19,2005

Cameras without borders

It’s not often I get good ideas from the President of Syria. But I definitely gained fresh insight from his recent rant about the evils of modern media technology. His terror is...

By • Jun 19,2005

Above the Beltway

In political Washington we all have a problem. We take our work too seriously, and believe that politics is everything. Baseball reminds us all that there is meaning outside of...