Obama reconsidering tax hikes. related, Obama irritating all the right people
Times' Mark Halperin discusses "Extreme pro-Obama press bias"
Roast Brined Turkey. It works. I tried it last year.
If fat people get two seats, should skinny people get a 1/2 seat?
E=mc squared seems to be true. But why should that be?
NYT spins history
Palin's star power increases
In appreciation of Bush. Wizbang
Home on the Rangel. What other laws does this guy break?
Am I crazy, or is the world crazy? Look at this new NYC statue.
Surely the NYT is pulling our collective leg?
From Volokh:
Lessons from the Great Depression:
Tyler Cowen on the lessons for today from FDR and the Great Depression:
In short, expansionary monetary policy and wartime orders from Europe, not the well-known policies of the New Deal, did the most to make the American economy climb out of the Depression. Our current downturn will end as well someday, and, as in the ’30s, the recovery will probably come for reasons that have little to do with most policy initiatives.
Eric at Classical Values considers mens' room gay sex. I had to look up the meaning of "trade."
Social politics. Why do we care so much about things that don't directly affect us? Quote from a piece by AVI:
We care very deeply about these expressions of who we are as a society, locally or nationally. Some people don’t want to see strip malls. Some don’t want to see litter. Some don’t want to see sexual advocacy in the children’s section of the public library. Zoning, historical districts, wilderness areas, nude beaches, prayers before football games, public smoking, girlie magazines at the convenience store, transvestites, mosques, loud music next door, ORV’s, communications towers, homeless people, Wal-marts…We don’t want to see it! Or we do. It says something bad/good about us as a people. We want to feel that the place is ours, that it expresses us. I don’t want to live in a society that…
