Blog Using Latin in Its Title Link of the Day

Excuse me waitress, what is the Vox Day?

Sir, that’s the voice of the day.

Hmmm, that does sound good, I’ll have that.

The above tribute to the comedy classic Dumb and Dumber notwithstanding, for those that don’t know, Vox Day is a Universal Press Syndicated columnist and contributor to World Net Daily, where he’s described thusly:

Vox Day is a novelist and Christian libertarian. He is a member of the SFWA, Mensa and the Southern Baptist Convention, and has been down with Madden since 1992.

I’m not sure what all if that means (although I think SFWA is the Southern Florida Wrestling Alliance), but this description from Glenn Reynolds tells me, it must be good:

"I suspect Vox Day is the love child of William F. Buckley and Ayn Rand."

Speaking as a guy described as “a crazy commanded from the grave by Ayn Rand to Fisk a Star Tribune column about an empty bus stop”, I have to respect that lineage. And request that Vox channel his ma and tell her to call off the noctural visits to my subconscience for a while. All that chain rattling and shreiking and wailing about Doug Grow is starting to interfere with my REM sleep. And if I want to have nightmares about Doug Grow, I’ll start reading his column again.

Vox Day is also the proprietor of Vox Popoli, an excellent blog concerning all things political, historical, financial, technological, and Al Franken-related. Commentary on Franken and the other Air America hosts has been comprehensive this week. So while you wait for Show 5 of the Northern Alliance Radio Network to begin (12 - 3 CST, 1280 AM) link on over and scroll around a while. Examples of his work are below (an analysis of the structure of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and a video game review). I dare say you won’t find the combination of commentary like this anywhere else on the Inernet:

So, if you get rid of the worst-performing ten percent of the index and replace them with fast-growing new companies every five years, you can keep things moving onward and upward forever. It's almost the opposite of the management of the Consumer Price Index, which excludes, through hedonics interpretation, "substitution" or simple exclusion, all the prices that are going up. Are you noticing a pattern here? Mutating metrics. Interesting times.

Star Wars: Battlefront lets you witness and/or participate in the mass genocide of Ewoks and Gungans. That alone is easily worth $50. If it allowed me to lop off Wicket's and Jar Jar's heads, impale them on a stick, and go gleefully parading around the galaxy, then I -- and many other moviegoers -- would gladly pay $500.