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.