Please run for President. No, I don’t want you to be President and I wouldn’t likely vote for you, but I want Helen Thomas to die. The old, talentless loon has been around the Whitehouse Press Corps for far too long. It is time to take her down. With a simple […]
Apparently a woman has been convicted for a non-crime.
Let me get this straight: We’ve a global “War on Terror” going on, recent bombings in London, and Bali previous to that, as well as Spain, this is largely a war with Islamic Jihadists, and the TSA is wasting time patting down 62-year-old grandmothers from Wisconsin?
I’d be […]
I have little to no patience for this kind of crap. Look, if you’re too goddamned stupid to not buy your child a game clearly based on violence, you don’t really have the luxury of demanding that the game company did something “irresponsible”. Hidden content is the bread and butter of gaming, that […]
There is no question that Don Boudreaux, chair of George Mason Universitie’s Economics Department, is smarter than I am. Absolutely none, and this piece about the horrors of Chavez’s Venezuela, and the general child-like mentality of dictators, is a must-read. I think, in general, he nails it:
What is government, especially of the sort […]
Mark Thoma suggests that setting a “really bad default” would likely make people start paying much more attention to their retirement planning in the form of employer-sponsored 401(k) plans. He links to this NYT piece that suggests perhaps a default contribution rate of 15% pre-tax salary would be enough to get people involved. […]
Abortion isn’t a huge political issue for me, but I sure do like sex, so I got a kick out of this NARAL banner:
[Via Hit & Run] There’s this fascinating Der Speigel interview with Kenyan economist James Shikwati. Shikwati’s point is one that many of us free-traders in the US have been making for a while: Aid does more harm than good, and African nations would be better served by trading on the world market than relying […]
The Declaration of Independence would’ve read as follows:
Dear King George III,
Fuck you, we’re out.
Love,
America
It’s a damn good thing that Thomas Jefferson and the other founders were much smarter than I am. Happy Independence Day, y’all.
Sullivan gives a virus update, and has this to say about “BigPharma” (as it is known, in accordance with prophesy):
I guess I should add that these not atypical results show that although basic scientific research must be funded by government, the “evil” pharmaceutical companies are, in fact, among the most beneficent organizations in the history […]
