Friday Linkage

No I haven't been posting much lately, I've been a little under the weather and obsessing over things like engineered wood vs. laminate flooring, top-load vs. front-load washers, and what I can do to remodel a kitchen for $37.00. No new photos either, it's been kind of miserable out. Last weekend I went to the Deifenbunker but they didn't allow photography. Speaking of which, my Dad had a great-aunt who actually dated Diefenbaker briefly, but her parents did not approve and put a stop to it. Anyway, on to some totally arbitrary links....

If you have as yet to get together your decorations for Halloween, this kit may be what you're looking for. Or not.(Warning: contains disturbing picture of Carrot Top.)

A couple recent pieces from that old standby, McSweeney's'....

Postcards from 'The Edge' "This morning I was next in the toilet after Bono's friend Salman Rushdie. He forgot to flush."

Revised Corporate E-mail Signature "If you are not the intended recipient, you should not copy, distribute, or take any action. That said, keep in mind that there are no coincidences; you have received this, so let's just take it from there."

Now that you've been drawn in with humour, it's time to for me to remember the purpose of this blog and beat you over the head with my political. So, here's economist Arnold Kling explaining a primary difference between libertarians and traditional conservatives or liberals. We don't believe that solving our problems is a matter of finding great leaders who will "get things done." That's a potentially dangerous idea, since democracy is actually a lousy way of finding such people.

In general, I try to avoid contact with narcissists who spend their time pleading for money. Those are hardly the intellectual and emotional characteristics that make someone admirable, yet they are the traits of people who go into politics.

The best we can hope for is to limit the damage that the sort of leaders we actually get can do.

Aaand finally, Warning Signs for Tomorrow.