When I first spotted the headline that some guy was charged for the crime of farting, it just struck me as one of those inexplicable voids of common sense. The summary at WSAZ explains everything: When police were trying to get fingerprints, police say Cruz moved closer to the officer and passed gas on him. The investigating officer remarked in the criminal complaint that the … [Read more...] about An Arrest That Doesn’t Pass the Sniff Test
Shocking News About Clay Aiken!
Turns out he's gay. … [Read more...] about Shocking News About Clay Aiken!
Why Not Bail Out the GOOD Banks?
This is probably wrong in so many ways, but why are we helping the bad financial institutions? Wouldn't it make more sense to help out the good ones? I think, first of all, that the plan is not to simply give away the $700 billion. Instead, the U.S. Treasury will take over bad mortgage investments. I think the way this works is that if the government buys $100 million in bad … [Read more...] about Why Not Bail Out the GOOD Banks?
Nothing Profound On the Financial Crisis
As an economics blogger, I feel I should say something about the current economic crisis hitting our financial institutions. However, my libertarian philosophy isn't helping me as much as I'd like when it comes to the current financial crisis. It's not that pure free-market economics doesn't provide an answer. It does. I'm just not confident it's a good answer. The … [Read more...] about Nothing Profound On the Financial Crisis
Knight Rider — Review
The new Knight Rider series premiers September 24 at 7pm central time on NBC, and based on the first episode, it's pretty true to the spirit of the original. By which I mean it's kind of dumb. I suppose I should include a pro-forma explanation of the series premise, for handful of people who don't know it from the original '80's series: Super high-tech artificially … [Read more...] about Knight Rider — Review