(Hat tip: Instapundit) The Vanity of the Capitalists may supply some entertainment.

If the high court decides that property rights are superseded by tax potential, the first and most sacred economic freedom is gone. Welcome to serfdom.

Everyone should sit down and consider whether they personally benefit from either having or not having an ongoing CPA relationship. I contracted a CPA seven years ago to handle my corporate filings and accounting. Aside from helping with compliance issues, he's been instrumental in helping me identify process failures and make accounting decisions. Having someone who spends all day every day looking at numbers brings a new view to the numbers that someone eyeball deep in running a business can't see without outside help.

The Soviet/Chinese/US liberal solution to unwanted pregnancies: abort every child possible so the sexual revolution may continue unencumbered by consequences. This is also the typical answer to any disease that comes from bad behavior. OK, maybe the Chinese and the Soviets were more acting pragmatic - but all these positions are coming from the Godless reactionaries just the same. There are two solutions to our population (family planning) and disease control problems worldwide, and they are solid unbreaking family relationships (you know, mother and father who love children - remember that?) and quality preventive medical services for married couples to plan children. There are social and moral issues to mold. The highest cause of unwanted preganancies in developed countries is unmarried sex. Unmarried sex is the largest cause of sexually transmitted disease in developing countries as well as developed countries (if you disagree, look up the definition of STD). Unmarried or promiscuous sex is bad.

The world's population will increase by 40 percent to 9.1 billion in 2050, but virtually all the growth will be in the developing world, especially in the 50 poorest countries, the U.N. Population Division said. - AP

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People keep talking about fat, the French, and what we should do (as Americans) regarding obesity and diet. However, what people often ignore are the leisure implications that accompany European lifestyle.

Americans often work on “off-days”. In stark contrast to our European counterparts, we have no national holidays or forced time off by any regulation of law. Americans are
free to work as many hours and as many hours consecutively as our employers will put upon us. Americans almost all work more than forty hours a week, most fifty or sixty a week to maintain our lifestyle. They overwhelmingly thrust food down their throats at lunchtime, seldom taking time to enjoy the meal or any other part of their weekday lives. Americans are not “fat and lazy” as some would argue. But, they are overworked, overnourished, and therefor overweight. Physical exercise, the enjoyable kind, is a luxury in America. We pack in exhausting work weeks, overloaded schedules, and what physical exertion we do enjoy comes in weekend warrior projects crammed into short two-day weekends, or what we like to call “days off”.

The fact is Linux is much more secure than Windows by any standard. The only excuse to run Windows is that your software vendor is your master, and you are forced to run their software on Windows because they make you.

At issue is whether governments can forcibly seize homes and businesses, for private economic development. Under a practice known as eminent domain, a person's property may be condemned and the land converted for a greater "public use." It has traditionally been employed to eliminate slums, or to build highways, schools or other public works. - CNN

It may sound odd to uberliberals worldwide, but many governments still consider speech in their policing purview. Iran is one of these countries, and they obviously found the writings of two bloggers offensive enough to justify incarceration.

Today, the Committee to Protect Bloggers has denounced the sentence handed down from the Iranian court. The day, Tuesday February 22, 2005, was to be "Free Mojtaba and Arash Day". Part of the committee's outrage is that the sentence was handed down on their declared protest day.

I don't even read privacy policies. If you want to know what most of them say, here's the lay term condensed version:

We use your private information as an asset, both for our internal business purposes and to sell to others. Our databases are open to any marketing company that wants to pay us for access. We call these companies "associates" or some other name that is intended to make you feel more comfortable about your sensitive personal and financial information being auctioned off to whomever will pay. If we collect your social security number, credit card numbers, banking information, or any other bit of data that may make a transaction take place more smoothly, you can bet we'll sell it at some point to dozens of comapanies around the world.

A growing problem plaguing online transactions is fraud. There are many methods of acquiring credit cards, bank account numbers, and personal information to commit crimes ranging from petty theft to funding and facilitating terrorism.

I've personally received emails requesting that I log into a bogus site and clarify some details about my account. One that caught my eye was an email that asked me to help eBay with a "security issue". Of course, eBay had nothing to do with the email. That site was hosted in the UK and collected numbers from Paypal related bank accounts and the user's passport. Why would they want passport numbers? By linking a real passport to real bank information, your identity could be very useful for criminal activities. They could easily manufacture a very real looking set of identification and travel related documents.