Scattered thoughts over the last few weeks surrounding my mother's passing. Keeping track of everything going on would have been so much harder without the internet and mobile phones. My dad was in a VA hospital, and my mother was in a private for-profit hospital. I don't think it's just libertarian bias that makes me like the private hospital much better. I completely lost … [Read more...] about On Mom’s Passing
USLaw.com and “nofollow”
In a comment to an earlier post about USLaw.com, someone calling themselves "d." wrote: There is still a nofollow tag, at least on links to Scott's most recent post (or most recent as of a few minutes ago).... it seemed from comments at SJ that the nofollow tag was an issue in terms of something technical I do not understand. I'm not a search engine guru, but let me take a … [Read more...] about USLaw.com and “nofollow”
USLaw.com Strikes Back
When Scott Greenfield complained about an outfit called USLaw.com which was republishing his blog articles in their entirety, I didn't think they were doing anything terribly wrong because Scott's blog publishes a syndication feed, and this is what syndication looks like. Scott disagrees. He doesn't think that's proper use of a feed, and he says my position indicates that … [Read more...] about USLaw.com Strikes Back
Thinking About the Stimulus: Theoretical Badness
This is the long-awaited (mostly by me) fourth post in my series about the stimulus bill. I would have got it posted earlier, but I've been kind of busy. (You might want to read the first three parts about GDP, Fear, and Spending.) Recall that under the theory behind the stimulus, recessions happen when consumers decide to reduce their consumption to try to save cash for an … [Read more...] about Thinking About the Stimulus: Theoretical Badness
Getting Tough on Minority Crime
A few days ago, Scott Greenfield pointed out this paragraph in a New York Times article about Obama's thinking about law and justice: [W]hen it came to sentencing laws, Mr. Obama led [student Adam] Bonin in a more conservative direction than the student had expected. The primary victims of black criminals were fellow blacks -- and so minority neighborhoods had an interest in … [Read more...] about Getting Tough on Minority Crime