Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Environment on Feb 25th, 2013
I’ve been poking around chemistry books for fun lately. I learned today that when you burn CH4 (i.e. methane, the stuff that comes out of fracked wells) you emit the much despised CO2 (we knew this, it just happens to produce a lot less per BTU than oil and coal) but it also emits a […]
Posted in Education, Government Gone Wild on Feb 25th, 2013
Is that a pony over there? The problem of America’s undeveloped human potential is real, but Mr. Obama has set up a non-falsifiable evidentiary standard for government. The public schools fail the poor, but reforming them is hard and would upset the unions. So instead liberals propose Head Start to prepare poor kids for kindergarten. […]
Posted in Central Planning, Government Thuggery on Feb 25th, 2013
I will not here chime in on the myriad arguments for and against the minimum wage that redound to economic research or theories. Instead I ask a simple question. Or two. Dear central planners in DC, do you believe that you have unlimited political capital and unlimited time and means to fix the problems in […]
