http://ift.tt/1B1A0UL American hero. (Via Jesse Walker.) #EndProhibition

http://ift.tt/1rh4z7A FTP, old school mix.

Oh God, it’s been a long time since I had to remember how badly the syntax for C++’s object-oriented features sucks. (A. It’s really bad.)

Good. The textbook industry is an obscene racket, predicated on extraordinary costs and a maze of perverse incentives. Pirating textbooks isn’t just a good idea. It’s a mitzvah. Burn the domming industry to the ground. Knowledge can and should be free.

I don’t have any great hopes for a Republic of the SNP. It will no doubt be just another government, doing more or less what governments do at a different address. Be that as it may: Of course Scotland should be independent from the UK. #EndAllEmpires #UKOut

Great Moments in Progressivism: This week millions are tuning in for lovingly rendered portraits of three multimillionaire dynastic politicians Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. We’re told that Teddy was a crusader against economic privilege, for example by supposedly using expansive new executive powers to control railroad fares, supposedly in the interest of greater fairness. Of course, during his time in office, Theodore Roosevelt also used expansive new executive powers to fight repeated brutal counter-insurgency wars, and, among other things, killed about quarter million Filipino civilians. But hey, what’s a few hundred thousand dead foreigners, when Americans might be getting a bit of a raw deal on their railroad ticket? #ACovenantWithDeathAndAnAgreementWithHell #AbolishThePresidency

Hippocleides cares not.