I've slacked off on the blogging over the past couple of months because I've been kind of busy, but I'll try to speed up again. Google Analytics claims that I have about a dozen or so regular readers, so to you folks, I apologize. Unfortunately, the story that the NSA is getting all our call records has me nearly speechless. I fully support government surveilance of known or … [Read more...] about Why Do They Hate Us?
A Letter To ATT
One of the big stories in the news these days is that the National Security Agency (NSA) is apparently collecting information about millions of telephone calls made by Americans since 9/11. They're apparently trying to get source and destination phone numbers as well as call time and duration for every phone call made in the United States, presumably to do some kind of data … [Read more...] about A Letter To ATT
Indigence Incentives
Ken Lammers is discussing the conflict of interest that exists between a criminal defendant and his court-appointed attorney when there is a cap on the fee for the case. Put simply, once the attorney has worked enough on the case to hit the cap, he's working for free. That gives him a strong incentive to bring the case to a swift close by mounting a weak defense or … [Read more...] about Indigence Incentives
Bought Some Drugs Today
I have a cold, and I ran out of cough medicine, so I stopped at the local Walgreens to get some more. I like to treat a cold with dextromethorphan (a cough suppressant), guaifenesin (an expectorant), and pseudoephedrine (a nasal decongestant). In other words, Robitussin CF. Of course, that last ingredient, pseudoephedrine, is a key ingredient for making crystal meth these … [Read more...] about Bought Some Drugs Today
About Those Hawaiian Gas Price Caps…
Back in August, I told you that Hawaii was attempting to cap the price of gasoline, but that they were making a very bad mistake by capping the wholesale price. Instead of reducing the price at the pump, this would raise it, for reasons I explained in the article. I was a little nervous about writing that because I'm strictly an amateur at economics: I just read a lot of … [Read more...] about About Those Hawaiian Gas Price Caps…