A Mentsch Trakht, un Got Lakht
I was as surprised as anyone to wake up this morning and discover that Kadima had agreed to enter Netanyahu’s governing coalition. This, in case you missed it, broadens its reach to 94 of...
Monthly Archive: May 2012
Over!
Cross-posted at Mindless Diversions. Since Jaybird is busy bailing out the basement, I thought I’d throw together something just to provide our breathless readership with something to read on Monday, other than a post...
Pres Obama Saves US Taxpayers $5 Million
The Preezy of the United Steezy just sent an al-Qaeder responsible for the murder of 17 of our boys on the USS Cole to Jihad Puppy Heaven. Fahd al-Quso was hit by a missile...
It’s likely you’ve already seen this….
but maybe you haven’t. And even if you have, if you’re like me you could watch this over and over and still find it hilarious every time.
Jurisprudence Blogging 3: Dworkin
In my previous post (which few people responded to*) I described Hart’s theory of law, gave some criticisms and gave my own take on things, which all things considered is still a legal positivist account...
A Capitalist’s Love Ballad to Bankruptcy
In Burt’s recent FP post, he takes a hypothetical bankruptcy scenario posed by Randy Harris and teases out the personal and professional ethics of the fictional players. If you haven’t read it yet, you...
Basketball Bet: Bad Bankruptcy Barrister
Randy Harris won our NCAA pool this year and has selected me to write an article in response to this hypothetical, which I present here with minor editorial changes from what Randy sent me:...
Can a small target be easier to hit?
One of the occasional frustrations of debating policy is that it can be difficult to convey your views concisely and precisely. In the case of libertarianism one difficulty is defining exactly what you mean...
Stimulus first, austerity later
Via Alex Tabarrok, a recent study by Richard Evans, Laurence Kotiloff, and Kerk Philips at VoxEU examines the effects of long-term large-scale redistribution of young Americans’ savings to the elderly: [T]he young, because they...
I Can’t Drive 55.
I read the below tweet from Megan McArdle about middle class driving habits (under the cut) while I was riding the Long Island Railroad and a couple of minutes later a woman asked me if...
MON TIKI Update 5/4/12
Beams back out, now we’re starting to deck the hulls. In the foreground is the decking over the aft locker/spare bunk, including the cutout for the hatch. On the far hull you can see...
Finally, the fried chicken proof you’ve been searching for
Russell, my co-blogger over at Blinded Trials, and I text each other…rather frequently. Since we’ve been doing our sub-blog (which is a total blast!), a continual source of texting delight for us is the search terms that people...
MCA RIP
Adam Yauch, better known as MCA from the Beastie Boys, died today of complications of cancer. He was 47 years old. In my social circles, the Beastie Boys were an unavoidable touchstone of pop...
Friday Jukebox
Hopefully, nobody else wanted this honor. I haven’t done it in a while. Plus, the Reverend Horton Heat played at my favorite bar on Wednesday and I was the DJ for the night, spinning...
Avengers, Culture, Wackadoodle, and Weekend Open Thread
It just means that my head and my heart tell me it’s 1945. They tell me that when I switch on the radio, it should take a minute to warm up and music should...
Jonah Goldberg’s Very Small Penis : How One NRO Correspondent Plans to Kill Your Children, Eat Your Puppies & Sodomize Your Kittens
I should probably start off by saying that as far as I know Jonah Goldberg has a fine and average sized (or bigger!) penis, and that to my knowledge he has never advocated any...
Mid-Season Mad Men Studies: “And would it have been worth it, after all?”
I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white...
Let us be pedantical for all love! Pt1 – When was Jack Aubrey Born?
Dear reader if you are anything like me you may on occasion grow tired of dealing with the daily inanity of what has come to be termed the political media. So for my next...
Words And Phrases
I am unlikely to read Jonah Goldberg’s new book, The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas. It’s not that I object to Jonah Goldberg in particular and it’s not...
