Two things I’ve avoided in my ranting here. First, referring to this site as a “blog” just because I changed from a useless, difficult to maintain format to using WordPress to maintain the site (I’m a master of self-delusion.). Second, writing about blogging. Blogging about blogging is just too self-reflexive for me, like those TV […]

The Volokh Conspiracy – The Court is in a bind: if it follows inertia (which it usually does), it in effect reads the interstate commerce clause out of the Constitution and makes the government under it one effectively unlimited by enumerated powers. If the Court takes the commerce clause seriously, on the other hand, it […]

Beer Hall of Fame After months of intense competition from over 60 great cities across the USA, Leisure Technician LLC, owner and operator of the Beer Hall of Fame, U.S. Beer Drinking Team, Beer Radio and Beer Television has initiated negotiations with a prominent business development team led by Randall Herbst of the Vision Implementation […]

I’m proud of my country today because of how far it has come and how much was right in the first place. The first black Secretary of State, the son of immigrants, is being succeeded by the first black woman to hold the position, a woman born in segregated Alabama in the 1950s. Two American […]

Interesting take on what could use improving in Iraq from The Econoclast It’s really hard not to think that the U.S. Pentagon has mismanaged the war in Iraq. Have they been using a misunderstood production function, trying to over-substitute capital for labour? It is hard to tell for sure… Certainly the war in Iraq isn’t […]

And compared to the inspiring commentary of Orrin Judd, we have an example of why economics is called “the dismal science.” If Marginal Revolution allowed comments, I’d give them one…. Marginal Revolution: Should you vote?