Solicitors
Local ADT Vendor123 Main StreetQuartz Hill CA 93536 Dear Local Vendor: On the evening of June 28, 2010, at 9:00 p.m. and after dark, two young men wearing ADT golf shirts rang the doorbell of my home, and began a… Continue Reading
Money
Naked Grade Inflation
Ah, the missed opportunities felt by students with “B” but not “B+” grades! Well, this never happened when I went to Loyola Law School. I, like so many other people with good-but-not-great grades, was stuck living with the consequences of… Continue Reading
Whole Lotta Nothing Going On
As a colleague put it to me yesterday, it’s amazing the amount of nothing that is happening in the world. It seems that there is a lot of fruitless effort to do something about the oil spill in the Gulf… Continue Reading
A Close Shave In Las Vegas
One of the interesting things about Las Vegas is that time and money lose a lot of meaning while you’re there. You spend more time doing things than you normally would because there are no clocks anywhere and plentiful distractions… Continue Reading
Regulating The Black Market
The ideal state for immigration would be that the United States takes in only the immigrants that it needs to fill open and low-wage positions, from a diverse mix of origin nations, and that those immigrants all get the appropriate… Continue Reading
Pornography Did Not Cause The Great Recession
First of all, I hate the phrase “Great Recession.” We’ve got to think up something better. “The Panic of 2007” would be more historically accurate. Second, it’s astonishing that we’re being told “more regulation” is the answer to what we… Continue Reading
Admitting It
I said that giving billions of dollars to General Motors was wrong. I said it was lighting the money on fire, we’d never see it back again, and it was being used to keep a dinosaur alive. While I’m not… Continue Reading
Doing Nothing Is The Better Strategy
Nearly two years ago, I wrote about Ira Isaacs, the guy who makes astonishingly disgusting pornography and who still faces the potential of prosecution for the “crime” of obscenity after having made and distributed literally dozens of copies of such… Continue Reading
Finally A Sports Post Even Political Junkies Can Enjoy
A little bit more than two years ago (jeez, was it really that long?), I mused that in the 2008 primaries, which got a very early start, it might make sense for a well-heeled candidate to take out a Super… Continue Reading
Visiting A Super-Secret Location
What to do with the large tax return the accountant tells us to expect? I have an idea…. … but I’ll have to see what The Wife thinks of my plan.