You can learn the official amount of national debt, to the penny, directly from the government. For instance. On April 13, 2007 (a Friday), the national debt was not quite 8.9 trillion dollars ($8,893,052,024.975.38). As of April 14, 2008 (Monday),… Continue Reading
No bell-bottom sightings at this time, but I’m starting to see more similarities than differences. Consider: The dollar is weak. Monopoly-money weak. We’re in a lingering, indecisive, expensive, and still-dangerous tail end of a protracted foreign war, in which the… Continue Reading
Last night was a special sort of treat for the Antelope Valley: a lecture given by none other than Ray Bradbury. The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 were both big influences on me as a young man, the first for… Continue Reading
I’m not entirely sure that tax cuts are what the country needs. But it makes sense for a Presidential candidate to propose them on April 15, which is exactly what John McCain has done today. This is part of his… Continue Reading
Some people are asking, in the wake of Obama’s “elitist” comments, whether they are elites themselves. There must be some kind of a test. Outside The Beltway offers some criteria, and they’re right as far as they go. Let me… Continue Reading
If anything Lester Thurow wrote about in today’s Fish Wrapper makes the remotest bit of sense to you, please leave a comment here and clue me in. In a nutshell, he seems to be proposing three policy concepts to address… Continue Reading
Michael Reynolds memed me.* I’m supposed to provide a link to his website launching the meme attack, include the instructions for the meme, post seven strange or random facts about myself, and then pass the meme along to others. This… Continue Reading
Amba asks: what luxuries would you not give up even if you had to live on a limited budget? Some, who have lived on truly limited budgets, would scoff at such a question – the answer, they would say, is… Continue Reading
Ian Ayres writes on the Freakonomic blog that classic racial discrimination is alive and well, at least with regard to tips to service providers like waiters and cabbies. Blacks both got lower tips, and gave lower tips, than their white… Continue Reading
Good link here from Volokh.