Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Tyler Vs Hennepin

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 George Will wrote about this case, as did Somin in Powerline and Tottenburg at NPR. If I understand Tyler owned a condo, she left for ass...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Biden's In

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 I'll vote for him.  What I really want, and won't get, is a victory wide and deep enough to include Democratic gains in the House, ...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Slavery Everywhere?

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 Americans, some of us, know that slavery was part of our history from 1619 to the Civil War.  We're less knowledgable about the slavery...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

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 Those terms are the mantra for conservatives attacking the size of government, and those who believe it's possible to reduce the defici...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Surprising Defection from TFG on Right

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 Given Powerline Blog's support of TFG over the years, even going so far to oust one of its bloggers for insufficient loyalty (Paul Mire...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Knowledge problem

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 See Farrell  at Crooked Timber has a discussion of the " Knowledge Problem ". If I understand, it's the argument that market ...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Resistance to Remote Work

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 The Times has a piece on remote work, describing some research and a categorization done by a social scientist.  Attitudes fall into four ...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Thomas, Crow, and Heirs Property?

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ProPublica reported this: In 2014, one of Texas billionaire Harlan Crow’s companies purchased a string of properties on a quiet residential ...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

On Distribution LIsts

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 Kevin Drum and many others don't understand how a National Guard member could have access to the sort of information which was leaked. ...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

A Large Dairy, Poor Cows

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 Big explosion at a dairy in Texas Monday, with estimates of the number of cows killed at 18,000! Don't know the cause of the explosion-...