Maggie's Farm

Got muskrats? There's a hot new market for their fur: China

Indian scams. Let's call them what they are.�Con-men, if you ask me, preying on the guilt of idiots.

Let's start by sterilizing Dr. John Reid.�Pass�the scalpel.

Goldman Sachs and those rich bonuses. Read the comments, too, at EconLog. If you don't think they earn it, you should meet some of them sometime: they aren't ordinary people. IQ, and an unusual�abundance of ego strengths.

Thinking about Russia and autocracy. Daily Pundit. One quote:

Russia long ago chose to barter liberty for security. The only reason the Communists were overthrown there was that they ceased to provide security (or food, or shoes�). But there is small cultural thirst for liberty in Russia. Otherwise, Vladimir Putin would not be establishing his New Russian Autocracy today.