Aaron Ross Powell is a horror and science fiction writer. His novel THE HOLE is coming soon from Permuted press.
Aaron Ross Powell Free ebook: my Cato colleagues are now giving away "Healthy Competition," which shows how markets can fix health care. http://j.mp/9c8J7C
Aaron Ross Powell "[Zombification] is difficult to study using traditional survey methods. Zombies...have very low rates of telephone usage." http://j.mp/978nCY
Aaron Ross Powell More editing done on my novel, THE HOLE, plus I've almost finished revising a new horror short story. Progress is awesome.
Aaron Ross Powell I love @EconTalker's spectacular skewering of the FCC's ridiculous national broadband plan: http://j.mp/be2AyS
Aaron Ross Powell I think it's downright wonderful that the little tag at the end of "Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)" looks just like "D'oh!"
Aaron Ross Powell Helprin's thesis boiled down: "Stop saying me I can't make shit up about the nature of reality. You're denying me a sense of wonder." Inane.
Aaron Ross Powell Reading Mark Helprin on those evil, naughty atheists. His arguments are thin & dull. He writes beautifully, but his analysis can't keep up.
Aaron Ross Powell Christopher Hayes seems to think growing skepticism is a bad thing. It's not. Skepticism should be our default position. http://j.mp/98A2Ue
Aaron Ross Powell MST3K Haiku http://bit.ly/azcvLY "I can save this ship. / Mutineers have one weakness: / punches in the face."
Aaron Ross Powell Public choice at work ... in the NFL? http://bit.ly/cX7p8Z
Aaron Ross Powell For the many who disagree, I wrote a new post showing why religious arguments have no place in policy debates: http://su.pr/16hukh #atheism
Aaron Ross Powell Why Religious Arguments Don’t Have a Place in Politics
Religion has no place in policy debates. Because of the special nature of faith-based beliefs and values, religious arguments cannot bring anything valuable to the table when discussing the best political solutions to societal issues. When it comes to debating policy, t...hen, we should simply ignore claims that draw exclusively upon religious faith and demand that the faithful provide other arguments–or exit the conversation.
The Elements of Policy Debate
Political arguments–that is, debates...
Source:Aaron Ross Powell
Published:2010-03-12 17:07:19 GMT
Aaron Ross Powell Has this NY lawmaker never watched an episode of "Top Chef?" You season DURING cooking, not after, dammit. http://j.mp/93AcJ4
Aaron Ross Powell Google's single greatest gift to humanity: http://bit.ly/bIfiAN
Aaron Ross Powell From @Something_Awful comes "Dungeons & Dragons is a series of overlapping race wars" and other great insights: http://j.mp/aJQWBl
Aaron Ross Powell That @Lauren_Bacall is on Twitter blows my mind. "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow."
Aaron Ross Powell Reading the upcoming Matt Ridley book, "The Rational Optimist." Now I have to figure out who'd be a good interlocutor for a book forum.
Aaron Ross Powell . @nntaleb Books are just paper and glue. It's the words that give them life. And those same words reside in ebooks. The rest is packaging.
Aaron Ross Powell Would ANY supporter of ObamaCare take this bet? http://j.mp/axZIMu I say no since we know how bad the predictions on Medicare spending were. - http://bit.ly/9ihf65
Aaron Ross Powell This post from @ntswanson in response to my earlier tweet (http://j.mp/aR2Ael) seems like a case of poisoning the well: http://j.mp/91TuD9 -
Aaron Ross Powell It's the federal government that takes our money to bribe its friends -- and then makes us fat: http://bit.ly/bV9pGQ -
Aaron Ross Powell Distinguishing themselves from these people (http://j.mp/9EHr3k) is a real problem for the climate skeptics. Don't know if it can be done. -
Aaron Ross Powell Listened to Steven Pinker on violence. He points out now is the safest, least violent time in human history. Progress is crazy cool. -
Aaron Ross Powell Just got retweeted by @ebertchicago. How f'n cool is that? -
Aaron Ross Powell "There's a real cool club on the other side of town where the real cool kids go to sit around and talk bad..." http://j.mp/bg1l4x -
Aaron Ross Powell My publisher's next Pocket Books edition is up. If it's a smash, my novel might get the same killer distribution, too. http://j.mp/cduYYK -
Aaron Ross Powell It all makes perfect sense now. The mysteries of the universe have been solved: "Left + Right = Middle" http://bit.ly/dB2lEL - http://bit.ly/9fVvXd
Aaron Ross Powell "It says a lot about the era of ... profligacy that [Sen. Bunning's] very modest proposal is seen as a radical idea." http://j.mp/c1IXkv - http://bit.ly/dDxgjv
Aaron Ross Powell Excellent and thorough piece by my good friend @TrevorBurrus on the myths of campaign finance and Citizens United: http://j.mp/9CCnlh -
Aaron Ross Powell From my fortune cookie: "Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause." True dat. - http://bit.ly/9jzizo
