Interview with Hawk Newsome of Black Lives Matter

A Better Alternative to the TSA?

Most everyone agrees that going through airport security and being groped by the TSA is not only offensive, but also a major nuisance.

How about replacing the TSA with privately run airport security?

It sounds like San Francisco travelers much prefer their privately run airport security than the TSA at all other US airports.

Beware Inflation

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

-- John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Social Security vs. Private Retirement

Epic Weekly News

A lot of cool stuff happened this past week:

• Mono 2.2 was released with the new SIMD and LinearIR optimizations
• Moonlight 1.0 was released
• Obama sworn in as the US President, streamed live via Moonlight
• ...and Linus Torvalds switches to GNOME