One of the sites I visit pretty frequently is Jim Leitzel's Vice Squad. The blurb on the site describes it as Explorations of public policy concerning alcohol, nicotine, other drugs, prostitution, gambling, pornography, .... Jim Leitzel is the Associate Director of Public Policy Studies (or something like that) at the University of Chicago. He's an economist, but most of … [Read more...] about Vice Squad
Thanks!
I don't want to get too involved in blogospheric self-reference, but I want to thank everybody who's visited Windypundit in the last few months, and I especially want to thank Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped for sending me an enormous amount of traffic. I started Windypundit in July of 2002. I didn't work at it too seriously, and I let it go for a while, but then I … [Read more...] about Thanks!
VAC, The Final Chapter
(Links to Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and Chapter 3.) When I first called ComEd's customer service center to complain about the electricity in my house, I wasn't even sure that 135 volts AC was out of the accepted range for electric service. While several consumer web sites have information about electricity costs and rules for disconnection, the web has surprisingly little about … [Read more...] about VAC, The Final Chapter
Slashdotted
Wow! The things that happen when you're away from the blog for a day... I just got a link from Slashdot, via an earlier Addict3d.org link. That sent me over nine thousand visits on Tuesday. Uh...Hi there everybody! I think I've got to find out what 2MHost does if I hit my bandwidth limit. Do they charge me or shut me down? And which would I prefer? This has produced a … [Read more...] about Slashdotted
Freedom Isn’t Free
As part of my new-found photography hobby, I was exploring the Riverwalk in Naperville, Illinois. It's a nice little park with lots of interesting walkways, bridges, and gazebos. It would make a great background for some outdoor portraits. Just before I left, I spotted, across the river, what looked like a whole wall with faces carved on it. I thought that might make a … [Read more...] about Freedom Isn’t Free