In the past, I’ve found a useful tool for locating people and things in the online Superpages. Now, it’s become so overgrown with advertisements for things that I don’t want and that are located so far out of my way… Continue Reading
DaimlerBenz is selling an 80% stake in Chrysler to a U.S.-based VC firm for $7.4 billion. Daimler bought Chrysler for $37 billion ten years ago, so this represents a loss of more than two billion dollars a year since then.… Continue Reading
Arguments are being heard today in a challenge to Connecticut’s marriage laws. Connecticut already has civil unions which provide the state equivalent of marriage to same-sex couples; the laws enacting that new institution in Connecticut were enacted through the democratic… Continue Reading
My second live class will come to an end tomorrow. Fortunately, there isn’t a lot of preparation I have to do for it — I will give a lecture similar to the one I finished with my last live class,… Continue Reading
It would appear that we (meaning the United States) will soon have direct talks between our Iraqi ambassador and an equivalent from Iran, in Baghdad. This is a welcome development. Iran has been causing a tremendous amount of trouble for… Continue Reading
My folks came to visit over the last week. We had a great time. This was as good and enjoyable a visit from them as I could possibly have wished for. Everyone got along great; everyone had fun; everyone enjoyed… Continue Reading
This cool little Java toy tells you the popularity of names given to babies going back to the late 1800’s. So if it seems like from out of nowhere there are suddenly a lot of fifth-graders named “Zachary,” “Brittany,” “Ashley,”… Continue Reading
Lawyers write lots of letters. Some days it feels like that’s all I do. A lawyer friend of mine asked the other day how to close his letters, and another lawyer friend pointed out that the closings on lawyer letters… Continue Reading
Ilya Somin makes an interesting case for Mario Puzo’s novel (and, by extension, the movies which faithfully adapted it) as a libertarian treatise. Certainly, Professor Somin recognizes that the real focus of the story is personal – the corruption of… Continue Reading
I know that most of my Loyal Readers are not particularly sports fans, and I’ve not made many remarks about sports for a while. But it’s likely that this year, Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants will surpass Hank… Continue Reading