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I bought Human Action and a companion volume with a title something like Mises made easier. They got packed into abox when I moved and are still there. I have read a good bit by his disciple Hayek. The Road to Serfdom is a classic. He also wrote the best short critique of central planning that I have read, an essay entitled The Use of Knowledge in Society. Try also The Fatal Conceit, The Constitution of Liberty, or Law, Legislation, and Liberty.

Very cool. Almost every Sunday we cater dinner to my mother-in-law. Today was simple and southern: roast loin of pork, sweet potatoes, and succotash.

There have been some threads lately that have gotten political, and this one is about reading, so… Just suppose you could make everyone, especially your political opponents, read, and think seriously about, a particular book, or monograph, or essay. What would it be? Personally I am not interested in partisan political polemics, as they are just red meat for the already convinced. I am more interested in works of political theory, economics, or some specific aspect of public policy, like health care, education, national security, or some such. I would make one recommendation to both opponents and allies: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell. Sowell is a very rare bird, he is both black, and conservative. None the less, I think this book very fair to both the right and the left. What say you all?

Good Grief! If that is the "Official Video", I'd hate to see the unofficial one.

Going to the range today to practice with my new shootin' irons. Going to the gun show tomorrow. F'n fantastic!

Yes, if you replay the video and focus about 18-24 inches above her, um, humongus tatas, you can see she her "face". It may take multiple replays for you.

In fiction I have been reading the novels of John Ringo. Most are military sci-fi. I have read most of the Posleen War series, the Council War series, the Troy Rising series and also The Last Centurion. Tomorrow I will probably start Elmer Kelton's The Time it Never Rained. In nonfiction I always have several books going. I just finished a monograph by Richard Epstein, Why Progressive Institutions are Unsustainable. I am about half way through Law Legislation and Liberty, Volume 2 by Friedrich A. Hayek. I am also reading a book about the Atkins diet. (BTW my wife and I started the diet a bit more than 2 weeks ago and have both lost some weight.) I am also reading The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuckman. Next up will be some ecomonics, I have not decided but it is between The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen and Man, Economy, and State by Murray N. Rothbard. I have about 3 dozen books in the queue after that.

Thanks. I think Smirnoff used to be good. A lot of good imported stuff had some US company buy the name and then the US company started selling their own, inferior stuff, under the import name.

In a land far, far away, at a time long, long ago, I remember enjoying a vodka gimlet before dinner one night. It was made with Smirnoff, and it was great. I bought a bottle of Smirnoff and some Roses Lime juice and the resulting cocktail was underwhelming. Anyone have a suggestion on how to make a really superb vodka gimlet? :unsure:

I have not been in Buffalo since 1994, please forgive any misremembering. I only ever drank whiskey in a cocktail, and that only occasionally when out to dinner, until recently. There was a good restaurant on Kenmore avenue about 4 or 5 blocks east of Delaware that I cannot remember the name of. On the other side of Kenmore avenue (approximately) was Lala that had middle European food (good schnitzels). One time the restaurant in question lost my reservation and we had to wait at the bar. The restaurant spotted me and my date a free drink while we waited. I had a bourbon Manhattan. I was at my favorite Raleigh restaurant (Mo's Diner [not really a diner}) about a year ago. I felt like having a cocktail and ordered a bourbon Manhattan. It was great. I asked the waiter about it and he said it was made with Maker's Mark. I bought a bottle and have been sampling it with water, over ice. I like it. :thumbsup:

How about an all about guns thread?

Are duck wings good?

I enjoy this thread but I am a pretty happy guy. My complaints are so minor I can not see posting here.

I didn't they let you have guns in N.J.

Double secret probation.

She is very good. :clapping:

RPG is report program generator, one of the first attempts at a next generation language. Mostly used on older and smaller IBM mainframes and a few other computers. Not sure there is much demand anymore.

Sorry, that was directed at chz

It is a love song.

Holy Sh*t! It werked. Thanks all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Di3vM5icF8

Thanx to u, 2

Thanx, I'll try it.

Not sure how much solo piano you have heard but... I really like most of the Beethoven piano sonatas and the bagatelles . My sister was a talented amateur pianist and I enjoyed her playing of the Moonlight sonata. There is a lot of really good keyboard music by J. S. Bach like the Well tempered klavier, or the Goldberg variations. For something different try the Hungarian rhapsodies of F. Lizst. How do you link/embed a youtube video?

I felt the earthquake in Raleigh. A couple of shakes, a very short pause, and a couple more shakes. Am I the natural disaster kid? I was caught by a monsoon once in East Asia, a flood in Alfred, the blizzard of '77 in Buffalo, 3 hurricanes, came within minutes of a tornado, and one other earthquake.