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You know what the greatest advantage of a democracy is? No, it is not that it gives us the power to elect the right person to power. In my view, the coolest thing about democracy is that it enables us to chuck out the wrong person after five years.
Democracy is a civilised form of [...]
In a comment at Desipundit, Amit Kulkarni provides the best proof that Communism, as a scientific theory, was false.
Yazad, Ravikiran
To address the criticism of you people about Communism, it does not really matter what badge you wear if you are hellbent on killing people either by waging wars or conducting mass genocide, for the [...]
Amit asks:
“This leads me to wonder why people in jails should not be allowed to throw parties and suchlike with their own money, if they disturb no one else in the process. Sure, jails are meant to confine criminals, but besides free movement, should all the other rights that an individual normally enjoys also be [...]
The debate on the whole regulation thing has gone its predictable course, i.e. we libertarians have asked “Are you in favour of free-markets or are you in favour of regulations?” and we’ve got the answer “Being pro-markets does not mean being against regulations” to which we’ve replied “What about the license-quota-permit raj? Do you think [...]
The Longest Comment In The Indian Blogosphere draws a parallel between the left and libertarians. It is not a particularly original parallel; many others have drawn it before. He is saying that just as the left was saying that “true” communism has not been really tried anywhere, it cannot be said to have failed, [...]
I think I do need to post more on The Longest Comment In The Indian Blogosphere.
Some 2000 words down the comment, he says that Don Boudreaux “dismisses the phenomena of global warming” and then Chetan launches into a tirade on how Global Warming is in fact occurring. Except, of course, that Don wasn’t saying [...]
Once again, we’ve been accused of condescension – this time it is by The Longest Comment Ever In The Indian Blogosphere. As the condescendingest Cartelian, I am tempted to simply link to what I had said on the subject some time back.
So continuing from where I left off in the last post, I wanted to tell you why there were no sting operations in “those times”. Actually, I don’t want to be unfair to those times. There was a lot of fine investigative journalism. When I started reading newspapers, it was exciting times, because the [...]
Firstly, you’re welcome. I still remember those days when you interviewed a famous personality, but you couldn’t get the trashy newspaper you were working for to carry that interview. From there to a prominent blogger, you’ve come a long way.;) (Note to others: Inside joke. Please ignore)
Having said that, I must confess [...]
Abi points to a study which finds that the average Wikipedia article contains four errors while the average Encyclopaedia Britannica article contains three. Abi thinks that the study vindicates Wikipedia, and if you think that Wikipedia is ridden with errors, then indeed it does. But if you, like me, expected Wikipedia to be better [...]
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