Michael Kinsley on Washington’s lust to pass corporate reform legislation:
This is all less about solving an actual problem than about a sort of law of political thermodynamics, which holds that every public frenzy produces legislation purporting to address it.
“The New Bull Market“
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This idea of posting one’s notes from a lecture is irritating. It’s cool to know that Doc Searls has the technology available to put down his thoughts about Larry Lessig’s speech for the rest of the world to see. What I don’t see is the added value. I don’t care what points […]
James Traficant gets the boot. No surprise. I should have watched C-SPAN to see what happened to deserve this paragraph from the story:
Rep. James Hansen, R-Utah, presiding over the rare House expulsion proceedings, admonished Traficant more than once for uttering curse words during his defense.
Could they have been “Beam me the f*** up!”? […]
Despite the bear market and corporate scandals, most Americans believe that individuals should have the freedom to invest part of their Social Security taxes as they see fit. A more interesting question is how these people would act if their investments collapsed due to poor choices. Will the person who put every last […]
If this D.C. suburb actually is dumb enough to impose light pollution laws, expect a rise in crime. Residents will never see the bad guys coming.
“No Dimming the Controversy of ‘Light Pollution‘ in DC Suburb”
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Rush Limbaugh has an answer to Apple’s woes: Steve Jobs should get off his Democratic high horse and advertise on Rush’s show. But that would require Jobs to actually “think different.”
“Apple Stupidity” [via Eat the Press]
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If the Supreme Court hadn’t of nationalized the abortion issue with Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Wade, then a bill passed by the House that would ban partial-birth abortions would be more troublesome to me as a federalist. Questions of crimes like theft, assault, rape, and murder should be left to lower levels […]
Despite the quickness of the arrests of members of the Rigas family, founders of Adelphia, a USA Today story reports that indicting and prosecuting executives is a long, arduous process. In many cases, piecing together white-collar crime takes considerable crimes. It’s not like determining who broke into a house and stole the TV. […]
Reason’s Sara Rimensnyder points out the worth of bankruptcies:
Sometimes, it seems a wave of bankruptcies may be the only hope for substantive, effective changes in airlines’ business strategies. But if the first step toward recovery is admitting you have a problem, today may be the turning point.
What bankruptcies do is reallocate economic resources from owners […]
Pollution may have played a role in causing drought in Africa. The climate is a complex thing. Just as I won’t jump to conclusions about man-induced global warming, I won’t quickly accept the conclusions of these scientists. But suppose that pollution from the industrialized West caused a lack of rainfall in Africa, […]
TAM has a spiffy new look that I’ve been tweaking for a few weeks. The now almost cliche blogroll is up instead of a portal. Maybe, that will lift me a little in the weblog ecosystem. Thanks go to Helquin for the basic template (with plenty of tweaks) and BlogSkins for offering […]
Jane Galt’s easy to learn public choice economics:
Pharmaceutical companies look at the size of the market; the government looks at how loud it is. Thus the government spends 10 times as much per victim on breast cancer research as colon cancer, even though the latter is far more likely to kill you; breasts, thank God, […]
Howie Kurtz’s “Awful Headline of the Week” is tasteless, yet funny.
“Roasted Nuts” — the Trentonian in New Jersey, on a fire at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital. The copy editor has apologized.
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There’s little real news about Janet Reno’s dance party except that Gov. Jeb Bush’s campaign manager got complementary tickets. Did some Miami house music bring a little Peace, Love, and Unity (PLU) to the campaign?
“Reno’s War Chest Is Lacking, but Her Dance Card Is Full” [via Drudge]
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A few weeks ago, TAM international correspondent, Eric G. recommended “What We Think of America“. It’s actually an issue of the magazine, Granta, and their website has selected essays from that issue.
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