At his other blog, my co-blogger Will Truman links to a video from the Reason Foundation concerning zoning and building code enforcement very near my own hometown in north Los Angeles County. Too modestly, in my opinion, he has failed to… Continue Reading
If you are convicted of a misdemeanor in Baldwin County, Alabama (that’s on the east side of Mobile Bay, bordering Florida, with a county seat in the I’m-sure-it’s-lovely city of Bay Minette), the judges will give you a choice — serve… Continue Reading
As a follow-up to a (mostly) deliciously peaceful week in Lake Tahoe, a friend who is a Disneyphile and his wife invited The Wife and I to a double-date at Disneyland. It was during the week but it included lunch… Continue Reading
From no less a source than the Economist: DISCUSSIONS of Texas often turn to an exploration of the American South’s most distinctive regional locution, “y’all.” The common view, among outsiders, is that insofar as “y’all” is from the region specified,… Continue Reading
The long nightmare in New Mexico is over: New Mexico coach Mike Locksley was fired Sunday, one day after yet another tough loss and another embarrassing off-the-field incident. Athletic director Paul Krebs announced Locksley’s dismissal in a statement and said… Continue Reading
India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Thailand, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Myanmar are the ten largest (by population) member nations of the UN that have yet to find enough people to do what?
Brevity has never been my strong suit. So if you want to know what the below post is about, but do not want to read a couple thousand words, it’s this: The famous donor/beneficiary map, which purports to show that… Continue Reading
I’ve been leaving intemperate comments here and there regarding the infamous donor/beneficiary map, which reveals that a lot of red states actually get more in federal funding than they put it. This is my more temperate response to that. At… Continue Reading
The New York Times has an article about the Marines’ efforts to recruit gays: The Marines were the service most opposed to ending the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, but they were the only one of five invited branches of… Continue Reading
Given current event, I thought it appropriate to post Steve Earle’s “Ellis Unit One,” as powerful a song on the subject that I have ever heard. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it’s a song from the point of… Continue Reading