Linky Friday #177: Creatures, Cities, Calories
This Week: Cities, Gender, Health, Money, and Creatures!
Tagged: money
The Church Has Shifted from Religious Outreach to Religious Profit
Dear Church,
Find a way to spend more money on your outreach and less on your facilities.
Sincerely,
An Uncomfortable Christian
Linky Friday #166: Everything Is Awful
This Week: Asia, Education, Health, Money, Work, and Progress!
Two Hamiltons For A Tubman
Maybe it wasn’t the biggest surprise to come out of the Treasury Department since FDR approved 3.2% beer during Prohibition, but Burt Likko welcomes today’s news about the government’s decision to shift the granting of high honors from one historical figure to another anyway.
An Experiment In Minimizing
Ice cream. It’s all that.
But Burt Likko can’t enjoy it because his wallet’s fat.
Red Jobs, Blue Jobs [Updated/Updating]
Profession predisposes peoples’ political preferences. Perhaps.
Would You Like Fries With That Midterm?
It’s not news that adjunct professors don’t get paid a lot. But it is at least remarkable when life imitates Breaking Bad.
To No One’s Surprise
A squib of a post about this morning’s Supreme Court decision in McCutcheon v. FEC. Very brief: aggregate campaign donation limits unconstitutional.
The Ethics and Incentives of Socialized Law
Noam Scheiber makes a radical suggestion. Eric Posner has lots of reasons why it’ll never work. Burt Likko says, “There’s a few things neither of you bright fellows have thought of.”
One Court To Rule Them All
Burt Likko is no rail engineer. But he is a lawyer, and that means he can offer at least one suggestion to moderate the ongoing boondoggle that is the California High Speed Rail Project.
A Thoroughly Unreasonable Request
In my business, I go to considerable efforts to make it as easy as possible for my clients to give me their money. This seems to be an ethic that DirecTV does not share.
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...
