I definitely will not link to this sick and twisted piece of hilarity.
Stimulus spending is at least stimulating the richest part of the country.
Hmmm. You have to wonder what the smoke crusaders will make of this.
So let me get this straight. The projection that people will get more “souped-up” healthcare plans and spend more money on healthcare is a selling point of reform? Right.
When even James Hansen thinks cap and trade is dumb, it must be dumb. This is pretty standard for global warming policy these days — set big important goals decades down the road, do nothing now. A carbon tax is simple, directly attacks the problem, can be adjusted. It would be even better if the revenue stream were countered with a corporate flat tax.
In other climate news, Scientific American has a good, if sarcastic and smug, response to anti-global warming claims. Informative article but their condescending tone is part of the problem with persuading the critics.
The GOP continues to implode. Now they want to censure Linday Graham. As I keep saying at the other blog, the RINOs were not the GOPs problem. It was the so-called hardcore loyal conservatives who rallied behind massive spending, corruption and torture.
What he said. And him, to some extent. I don’t like many of the policies the Democrats are implementing and think the party as a whole suffers from a dangerous amount of hubris. But I’m tired of the outrage, the crackpot theories, the glib comparisons to the USSR. What the hell happened to these people?
It seems to me that the environmentalists still haven’t learned how to maximize the ratio of gain to pain. Making everyone dirty, smelly and miserable to save a few gallons of water seems poorly thought out.
This is disturbing. What’s the point of electing Democrats if they’re going to go all uber-law-and-order on us? Remember when they used to protect civil liberties?
Don Boudreaux destroys Paul Krugman’s glib assertion that labor market controls will bring down unempoyment. I must admit to being baffled by Krugman’s post. He does now that you need n>1 data points to reach a conclusion, yes? Yes? No.
Huffpo has a rundown of 15 stupid products. My beloved Hawaii Chair is represented. This has to be one of the funniest ads ever, watching the actors bravely pretend to work while this thing lurches back and forth.
The bed shotgun rack makes its obligatory appearance. I’m not sure why. I know a number of people who keep guns near their bed. I even know one person to whom this was useful, when she used it to chase a way a guy who had broken into her house. Same goes with the “Bumpits” thing. I know women who use similar devices (although not at $19.99 and not with such a stupid name).
I will say one more thing. $55 for the Kush?! The product is stupid (and exploitive) enough, but to charge that much for it? Good Christ.
More on death penalty innocence from Ta-Nehisi. The Willingham case I blogged on provoked a rebuttal from John Jackson that mostly consists of innuendo and character assassination. Rebuttals to the rebuttal are here and here. My neutral position on capital punishment is slowly moving toward “mostly against”.
Yes, more linkos. I’m in one of my more bloggy phases today.
The good and bad of Ted Kennedy. Balko as well. He could be a great man or he could be a petty power-hungry idealogue. And I have a known distaste for the entire Kennedy aristocracy. But I’m sorry for his family and friends.
I’m with Megan. Comparing just about any political philosophy that doesn’t involve killing people to fascism is just stupid.
Ha ha. The weird thing is that I remember these sort of “thing called the internet” piecs. But to today’s kids, they probably see like a joke.
I heavily blogged Richard Dawkins God Delusion as I read it (click the Religion tab on your right). I’m glad to see he has another book coming out. I think his take on religion is clumsy and needlessly aggressive. But his defense of evolutionary theory and science is outstanding. Granted, I may have a soft spot for anyone married to Romana.
What a great idea. While we’re at it, let’s burn down people’s houses so they can learn about the danger of arson (and stimulate the economy, if Cash for Clunkers is our guide).
