The Unbroken Window

Poor families (bottom 20% of household income) spend well over 10% of their annual budgets on energy and related items. And as the figure below indicates (from the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities) the impact of higher fuel costs on the poor goes well beyond the direct increases in electricity and gasoline charges. The [...]

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… if only the “market” for pharmaceuticals worked as well as the market for recreational drugs …

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It’s not even ironic that “activists” invoke science when doing this. It’s just plain evil. What is even more dispiriting is the scientists’ having to appeal to the thugs to not destroy stuff. Let me ask a question. Are such activists actually appealing to science when they destroy GM crops? On what evidence? Are such [...]

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It took me a full 24 hours to realize that yesterday was Loyalty Day. What part of this wins the “Gaggalicious” thought of the day award? My vote: “On Loyalty Day, we rededicate ourselves to the common good, to the cornerstones of liberty, equality, and justice, and to the unending pursuit of a more perfect [...]

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The topic in her (kindergarten) weekly reader is “Kids Can Care for Earth.” Here is page 4: In other news, one of my family members was served with a notice for “failure to pay fine” for a traffic violation. Sounds reasonable. The violation date? April 20, 1994.  I think the fine amount was something like [...]

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Comments coming from e-mail addresses that are not confirmed and that cannot be responded to are treated as spam. You are welcome to call my readers names, my students indoctrinated, me an idiot, but not if you are too mature to reveal yourself. I have nothing to hide. My students have nothing to hide. I [...]

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My hypothesis is that on any interesting or particularly controversial blog post or facebook update, it will devolve into an utterly inane foodfight within 6 comments.

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In today’s Journal, Professor Blinder enlightens us with some of these gems: That’s where economics and law collide. Economically, the individual mandate and insurance reforms form an unbreakable pair. Legally, they are separate. So the mandate could be ruled unconstitutional while the insurance reforms are not. After all, there is no question that health insurance [...]

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My excellent student Alex A. has recently employed the phrase “The Jig is Up” in regard to an existential crisis we’ve all been having. We’ll share that crisis soon. In the meantime, let’s honor the expression a little bit. Here’s the Harvard Law Review in 1939 (do current editions read like this?): While there is [...]

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For $300, you can actually get a hockey stick signed by Michael Mann! Seriously.

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