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Glenn further advances his outstanding notion of a post-gov’t-employment tax, aka the “Reynolds Surtax“.  Some people, especially those with a lot to lose (e.g. gov’t officials, lobbyists, and those they regulate)  are going to call this a gimmick, but it’s really something that should be taken very seriously — when DC is the only non-fracking…

I’m sick as a dog and running a 101.3 fever with chills, so I haven’t been up to my normal energy levels, nor am I feeling as rational as I might like. But earlier my attention was drawn again to the so-called “obesity epidemic.” Yeah, it’s in quotes because although I may think that voluntary…

I’d like to contrast two interesting statements about emotion. One is the above (from a left-wing policy wonk). The other is from a guy I respect, Glenn Reynolds: Resort to theatrical efforts at emotional blackmail is an admission that you have no intellectual arguments. True as that is, it certainly does not stop emotional blackmail,…

Jack Rice – CIA. Jack Rice, at his core, is a story teller. As an award winning journalist and correspondent, he has chased stories around the world. He is an journalist, former CIA Officer and Nationally Syndicated Talk Show Host. McCoy – The Politics of Heroin Chiang Kai-shek and the Drug Warlords of the Golden…

I also liked this belly dancer and the little hitch move she does with her hips. And this one:

The second best way to protect yourself from gang violence is to end Prohibition.

One side argues that banning “xxx” substance will eliminate all the negatives of that substance. The other side argues it will multiply them. The other side is correct. We have a one party state. Two factions. Inspired by this comment.

Now that Google is officially in bed with government gun grabbers, I’m perplexed about what to do. I don’t want to support the company, and I would like to do anything possible to let them know about it. However, they are a Goliath, and I do not even rise to the level of a David…

It’s a documented fact. No really. Kenner Police say a man died inside a beer cooler at a convenient store on Airline Drive overnight, but no one knew he was there until they found his very cold body this morning. Earlier I said that this sounded cool to me, but now I’m thinking about serious…

Isn’t it weird the way one thing leads to another? I mean, I clicked on Glenn Reynolds’ link to an article about extending life to 800 years (which can already be done with yeast), and then that led me to a piece about monster teddy bears. And as if that weren’t bad enough, the guy…

And while I never heard of such a thing before, I now know that (at least according to Wikipedia) there is a term called “Microrape”: Characterized by predatory non-physical prurient communications with the intent to penetrate the victim’s emotional security on the basis of heteronormative impositions. I’m just curious how one might penetrate someone’s emotional…

Funny thing that in a recent post about inane laws I would say that I “wish we could do something about the easy availability of foolish laws” only to see one of the silliest laws I have yet to see proposed: Rep. Mitch Greenlick, from Portland, is sponsoring a bill that makes cigarettes a Schedule III controlled substance,…

Great article here on “A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity” by Luigi Zingales,  esp the Pigouvian angle. It was also heartening to read the other day that some at the Fed are arguing for the end of TBTF — the revolving door between regulators and regulated has gotten so…

There’s a bit of a debate going on over whether not hurling personal insults at people constitutes letting liberals dictate the terms of debate. Having lived in leftie college towns for most of my life, I know what life under the liberal thought police is like; hence I deliberately ran for office as a Republican…

Obama has just promised “Peace In Our Time”.

If studies show that what excites our desire – a naked body, a boiled lobster, a cigarette – are simultaneously what threatens to trigger our revulsion, then what are the implications to studies that show chronic grief activates pleasure areas of the brain?  

H/T Legal Insurrection

On Facebook, Radley Balko earlier linked a news item with a headline I consider downright dirty-looking: Police Invoke the Spirit of Butt-Chugging to Try to Derail Wine in Grocery Stores I really could have done without that, OK? But it’s not just one news item. It’s one they want repeated everywhere, and CNN has joined…

I hate this f**king weather! Winter is one thing, but there is something about waking up in the morning to see the temperature below zero that just takes whatever remaining wind I have out of my sails. I don’t want to go anywhere or do anything, yet I have to. My bones ache, and so…