The Atlantic has a piece about Australia’s new cigarette boxes: As part of the landmark tobacco regulation bill President Obama signed in 2009, Congress required cigarette makers to set aside half the space on each of their packages for health… Continue Reading
Last week, they picked up the house next door and moved it a block over. The next step is to run a street through it. While they’re at it, they tore up the street behind us to repave it. Also,… Continue Reading
This is actually the first of a couple posts. I’d rather start with the second, but experience tells me that if I try, we’ll end up talking about this aspect anyway: Birthright citizenship and “anchor babies.” First, a bit of… Continue Reading
For those of you who have never heard of it, IGA is the Independent Grocers Alliance, a sort of franchising model among grocery stores and supermarkets in contrast to a chain of them. They’re independently owned but also work together.… Continue Reading
United States of America (44). Switzerland (13). Canada (12). Spain (11). Italy (9*). Germany (9). Finland, France, and Sweden (8 each). Austria and Japan (6 each). Hungary and the Netherlands (5 each). Great Britain (4*). Argentina, Norway, Russia, Turkey (4… Continue Reading
David Bergeron, the founder and president of a company that makes solar powered refrigerators, thinks that subsidies for on-grid solar power are a bad idea: Here is the real problem: Subsidies make solar appear viable today, so where is the… Continue Reading
I’ve not had a real television in the house for several years. Mrs. Likko banished television when, way back when we were still living in Tennessee, we had a shameful run-in with Iron Chef on a work night. “No, let’s watch the… Continue Reading
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Democracy. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click here. A few weeks ago, I… Continue Reading
[This was posted last week on Hit Coffee. I meant to cross-post it here, but forgot to.] So I was listening to this John Grisham audiobook. It was very much unlike any other Grisham book I have ever read/heard before.… Continue Reading
In this post, liberal does not mean “of the contemporary American left” and conservative does not mean “of the contemporary American right” though there is at least some overlap (in other cases, they are in opposition). I was born, I… Continue Reading