This moneymaking plan is amoral, illegal, risky, and elegant. What more could a college student want? Step 1: Hire and have sex with a prostitute fronting as a masseuse, thereby inducing her to commit a crime. Step 2: Complain that… Continue Reading
I wrote yesterday about the elements in the GOP that want to encourage social conformity. These are closely allied with “morals” Republicans, because for them, universally good moral behavior necessarily produces a uniform social environment – such that they often… Continue Reading
Apparently, I’m the last man in the Antelope Valley to have heard that from 2008 to 2028, the Tejon Ranch Corporation wants to build a 70,000 resident city to the east and north of Quail Lake. Tejon Ranch is currently… Continue Reading
Well, you’re a bunch of multitaskers, according to last week’s poll. I guess that’s just how work is these days. Me, I try to focus on one thing at a time, but that’s often impossible. I don’t multitask very well;… Continue Reading
It still astonishes me to think that international trade faces a live and real threat from pirates. For instance, pirates operating off the coast of Somalia seized a Danish ship today, possibly killing one or more of the sailors on… 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
The Tennessee arm of the AMA says yes. The Nashville Tennessean says no. The data in favor of that argument is pretty compelling. In 2004, there were a total of six medical malpractice judgments, totaling $1.9 million. In that time,… Continue Reading