Year: 2008
Best Line About Blagojevich
Megan McArdle puts it in perspective: Most of my friends are libertarians, and hence tend to assume that this sort of quid pro quo is in fact how people get appointments. But we thought it was done with some subtlety, a nudge and a wink, not full frontal demands for payola… There’s something really sad… Read more
It’s Official: We Rule the News Cycle
Jon Stewart opened his show with a few meaningless pleasantries and then started the news with The word “jagoff”…gets thrown around a lot in today’s society… and I just knew we were the story. Read more
More On Prostitution
(I started to write this last month, when it would have been more timely, but it kept getting put off by other stuff.) In response to the 3rd part of my rebuttle to Farley and Ramos’s article urging the prosecution of prostitution patrons, someone signing herself (I’m guessing) “olympe” writes: Libertarianism is an ideology devised… Read more
Governor Rod Blagojevich Arrested…Finally
The U.S. Attorney here in Illinois, Patrick Fitzgerald, has generally been considered pretty good at uncovering political corruption, and today he was promoted to awesome: His office just charged Governor Rod Blagojevich on some amazing charges—none of that “misusing the postal meter”-style corruption for our boy Blago. The feds actually arrested him at his home. I… Read more
RIAA Strikes Again
Radley Balko tells us about yet another RIAA masterstroke: [The] RIAA is suing a young transplant patient in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Nineteen-year-old Ciara Sauro has pancreatitis and because she needs an islet cell transplant, she’s hospitalized every week, a situation resulting in a huge accumulation of medical bills. Now, “Because she didn’t defend herself against a… Read more