Written by: Beck

No comments about Cyndi Lauper's use of the subjunctive please.

In the news: Astros 6 Brewers 1. The Rocket is 3-0 now. He also managed to get on base during an at bat where the Astros already had two outs, ultimately creating several runs. The weather was perfect too, in case you were wondering.

In other news: I saw Kill Bill Vol. 2 a couple days ago. I'll follow with a review, at some point, but until then allow me to simply say that it was excellent.

Finally, for lack of anything in the current events department to share with you (I'm sure there's plenty going on out there, I just haven't had the time or inclination to investigate), allow me to quote for you a brief excerpt from the book I'm currently (re)reading:

That socialism so long as it remains theoretical is internationalist, while as soon as it is put into practice, whether in Russia or in Germany, it becomes violently nationalist, is one of the reasons why "liberal socialism" as most people in the Western world imagine it is purely theoretical, while the practice of socialism is everywhere totalitarian...

If the "community" or the state are prior to the individual, if they have ends of their own independent of and superior to those of the individuals, only those individuals who work for the same ends can be regarded as members of the community. It is a necessary consequence of this view that a person is respected only as a member of the group, that is, only if and in so far as he works for the recognized common ends, and that he derives his whole dignity only from this membership and not merely from being man. Indeed, the very concepts of humanity and therefore of any form of internationalism are entirely products of the individualist view of man, and there can be no place for them in a collectivist system of thought.

Gotta love Hayek.