The Lying Game
Am I the only person who’s hoping that when Joe Millionaire finally chooses one woman and reveals that he’s actually poor, she reveals that she’s actually a man in drag? Read more
Brave and Courageous.
Others have already mentioned the unfortunate shooting of undercover police officer Lisa Ramsey in Fort Worth. Public accounts are still incomplete, but it looks like she or some other officer made a buy from a crack dealer outside a convenience store then came back when he was inside to arrest him. Not wanting to have… Read more
Allegedly on Death Row.
Illinois Governor George Ryan is preparing to commute the sentences of most of the inmates on death row. This is probably a good thing, as Illinois has had to free a surprising number of condemned prisoners who later turned out the be almost-certainly innocent. Not just technically not guilty, mind you, but really innocent, as… Read more
Sorry!
To the two or three of you out there reading this: Sorry. Actual paying work has been occupying so much of my time that I barely have time to keep up with my reading, let along writing something. The good news is that I’m off of Blogspot. Also, I’m planning to convert all this to… Read more
The Postrel Amendment.
Virginia Postrel has been discussing how to reduce the ridiculous over-representation of farm states in the Senate. She wants to merge a few of them. Yeah, it’s unconstitutional to force them, but that doesn’t mean we can’t figure something out. Since we’re all big-time free-market believers here in the blogosphere, the obvious way is to… Read more
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