I'm having a very good time at the LP Convention in Denver, so far. Readers skeptical about the LP will be happy to hear that there are lots of LRC fans and Ron Paulians at the event. Indeed, a number of folks have told me they enjoy my articles and they visit this site daily.

The great Walter Block is here as well. Tomorrow he will be discussing free-market economics (the real kind, of course) and I will be discussing the differences between rights and privileges. I didn't choose this topic but I am happy to have it, and I hope to go somewhat deeply into some of the unavoidable problems that arise with the introduction of the state into society.

As for the convention politics, so far everything seems cordial and relaxed. No real action yet. I just talked with Mike Gravel and tried to convince him that democracy will not bring about libertarianism, but somehow was unable to convince him. I've also had stimulating discussions on the human shield question, the Mexican War, and monetary policy -- classic libertarian arguments (of course my opponent is always taking the wrong position).

Last night, I went and saw the Cure at Red Rocks Amphitheatre -- an excellent show at a wonderful venue I'd never yet frequented. Though aging, they were tight, refined and authentic. There were three encores, somewhat anticlimactic yet not apparently intentionally so, which does raise some important questions about the degree of liberating viability of commercialized faux-underground retro-proto-Goth in a world where the increasing yet overlapping multipluralism of subcultural identity politics has moved from pop music to other modes of -- oh, sorry. I forgot this isn't Reason. (Just kidding, guys.)