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Month: September 2011

Land Use Abuse In North Los Angeles County

September 30, 2011Burt Likko 3 Comments

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 →

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A Lemon Of An Idea In Alabama

September 30, 2011Burt Likko 14 Comments

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 →

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Mouse DeLuxe

September 29, 2011Burt Likko 11 Comments

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 →

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This Is Important, Y’all

September 29, 2011Will Truman 26 Comments

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 →

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College Football’s Worst Coach Fired

September 26, 2011Will Truman 16 Comments

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 →

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Monday Trivia, No. 29

September 26, 2011Burt Likko 10 Comments

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?

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Cartographic Demagoguery: Condensed Version

September 24, 2011Will Truman 22 Comments

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 →

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Cartographic Demagoguery

September 24, 2011Will Truman 1 Comment

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 →

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Full Speed, New Direction

September 23, 2011Will Truman 29 Comments

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 →

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Ellis Unit One

September 22, 2011Will Truman 1 Comment

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 →

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