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Daily Archive for July 23rd, 2010

From the AP: Some major health insurance companies will no longer issue certain types of policies for children, an unintended consequence of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law, state officials said Friday. Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said several big insurers in his state will stop issuing new policies that cover children individually. Oklahoma […]

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The government’s recipe for brownies is … 26 pages long. You cannot make this stuff up. The Pentagon’s brownie recipe is 26 pages long. Among the ingredients: water that conforms to the “National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (Copies are available from the Office of Drinking Water, Environmental Protection Agency, WH550D, 401 M Street, S.W., Washington, […]

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Country Club Liberalism

I am becoming increasingly skeptical of the practical usefulness of social science research though I do believe it makes for great fodder for satisfying simple intellectual curiosity. People make excellent careers answering questions such as “why do gays smoke so much” and I begrudge them not, but after doing a good amount of social science […]

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