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Monday music: Fotos y recuerdos
In addition to “No me queda mas“, another one of my favorite Selena songs is her 1995 single “Fotos y recuerdos.” Alas, I was disappointed that this beautiful song was not featured for some reason on the recent Selena series … Continue reading
Monday Mathematics: Taxonomy of Epsilons
Here is the Wikipedia entry for Epsilon.
Roofs in the Moonlight
This beautiful painting is by Ethiopian artist Makeda Bizuneh (circa 2013).
Free East Turkestan
The Chinese government is committing cultural genocide against the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province (East Turkestan), detaining approximately one million people over the past five years, subjecting them to abuse and “re-education” and forcing them to denounce their religion. See … Continue reading
Throwback Thursday: Puerto Rico Truel
In a previous Throwback Thursday I featured my 2005 paper “Deconstructing Darwin.” Today, I want to feature my 2008 paper on “A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Impasse over Puerto Rico’s Status,” which is available here via the magic of SSRN. … Continue reading
When the police and the courts are the criminals
Here are the opening two paragraphs of my paper on “The Law of Self-Ownership” (footnotes omitted): “When undercover police officers arrested Ana Isabel Castro-Garcia (pictured below, left) and Brenda Stephanie Mata (middle) in Laredo, Texas for working from their homes … Continue reading
Who is the biggest crook in the United States?
I nominate all the State and local government officials who took people’s labor rights during the pandemic without the payment of just compensation. In a nutshell, my thesis is that labor is property and that lockdown orders thus constitute a … Continue reading
The Law of Self-Ownership
That is the title of my most recent work-in-progress, available here via SSRN. Among other things, my paper surveys the greatest and largest-scale “taking” in the history of the United States: the taking of labor of non-essential workers during the … Continue reading
Diego Maradona y la mano de Dios
On this day (June 22) in 1986, Diego Maradona scored his controversial “Hand of God goal” in the quarter-finals of the World Cup match between Argentina and England. Payback for las Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands), which rightly belong to Argentina!

