Comments (5)

• banker

  WHERE IS MISES CHAT!??!?

  Published: December 16, 2006 12:07 AM

• jeffrey

  Well, the newest version of the software did not work with Windows, for whatever reason. So we have to get a new thing from somewhere. There's been no major rush on it mainly because it was my impression that it wasn't being used that much. Am I wrong?

  Published: December 16, 2006 7:19 AM

• Tom Woods

  Although not on Mises.org, let's not forget this article by Butler Shaffer. It's about time we stopped being morally intimidated by the pathetic Bob Cratchett, who apparently lacks any ambition or desire for self-improvement. This is Scrooge's fault?

  Published: December 16, 2006 1:30 PM

• George

  I would like to see the chat room back too. The problem before is that there were no scheduled chats. (At least, that I know of.)

  For example, Mises.org can have a chat room session every Friday at 6PM ET or something.

  The chat room can always be "open," but the way to get people together is to give us a day & time.

  Published: December 17, 2006 12:32 PM

• Aakash

  You know how they say: "Great minds think along the same channel" ?

  During the latter part of my freshman year in college, and in discussions after that, I found that myself and the President of the College Libertarians at my then-university were having the same thoughts (sometimes verbatim!) when discussing issues, like current events, the elections, and the topics that've been discussed at LRC, Antiwar.com, here, and like-minded sites. I guess that is what happens when you're one of the few college students who is following Rockwell, Rothbard, Raimondo, etc...

  I am mentioning this because I just came back to the Mises Blog (the last time I was there was on Friday night, at the Christmas Party live-blogged from in my last blog entry)... And each of the top three posts here are about topics that I just blogged about! Well, the top one has to do with a topic that I would like to blog about [in the faint hopes that I'll get the time...], but I had changed my Facebook profile picture that evening, to one of a certain late general. One person immediately posted on my "Wall," asking who that was, but another - a conservative activist - immediately recognized the photo, and said that he was glad that the general was still alive, and living in Illinois.

  The 2nd and 3rd posts (currently on the Mises blog home page) however, are both topics that I actually referenced, in that last weblog entry. That draft post from last Christmastime, which I mention there, was going to be about Scrooge, and would've used that older Mises.org piece, along with another one that I had found, a couple years ago, which was along the same lines.

  It was disappointing to learn that there was a political purpose behind A Christmas Carol... I'm not saying that Dickens was off-base in his critique of the economic and social conditions of the time, since I don't know the background on that, but it was disappointing to learn that Dickens was trying to advocate a particular political and economic viewpoint, in this excellent tale.

  And I did not know (or had forgotten) about the economic and political points raised by the Capra classic. That is such an uplifting and heart-warming film, that it's hard to think of much else than the main point of the movie.

  
  Like it was last winter (when I also had incompletes), seeing the "Working Papers" and other prolific pieces at this site serves as an example to those of us who are struggling to get our compositions in on time, for classes. Thanks for all that you continue to do with the Mises.org weblog and blog, and please keep up the excellent web work!

  Published: December 17, 2006 10:08 PM