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Give Looters a Short-Term Disincentive
Sep 01 2005, 15:00 EDT [updated Sep 01 2005, 15:11 EDT]
There is much hand wringing about looters in New Orleans. The Corner seems somewhat mixed. Me? I'm with Bruce - F***'em, Gloves Off, Game On.
In addition to the direct crimes of murder, rape, and robbery lots of people are dying because they can't mov
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Your week in Quickies
Aug 29 2005, 08:37 EDT
Engadget 1985
[bobsalive]
Aug 27 2005, 20:04 EDT
What if Engadget was a BBS 20 years ago?
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Hawaii, Home of the Brave
Aug 28 2005, 23:50 EDT [updated Aug 29 2005, 00:04 EDT]
The Hawaiian (Hawaiiian?) legislature is capping the price of gasoline. Volokh calls it an economic experiment - will price caps produce shortages? This is not an economic experiment, but a political one. The 70s gas rations in particular and every rat
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Government Employees, Hard at Work (1 image)
Aug 26 2005, 18:24 EDT
It looks like the US Patent Office knows how to use google.
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Good Guys with Guns
Aug 26 2005, 12:14 EDT [updated Aug 31 2005, 17:09 EDT]
Breaking news on cable (I'll update with a link later). A female Wal-Mart employee was being stabbed by her ex-husband in the parking lot when an armed civilian intervened. Shot the husband dead. FNC talking head says this is "probably justifiable self
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Stevens speaks out against Kelo
Aug 25 2005, 23:13 EDT [updated Aug 25 2005, 23:38 EDT]
Justice Stevens, author of the majority opinion in the recent eminent domain case Kelo [scotusblog has everything Kelo], has said it was good law but bad policy according to this NYT story.
The argument against "judicial activism" is that judges make p
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William F Buckley, Thief
Aug 23 2005, 13:36 EDT [updated Aug 26 2005, 22:58 EDT]
National Review was launched in 1955 with the statement " National Review .. stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.". Mises.org, a site dedicated to the late L
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Your week in Quickies
Aug 22 2005, 00:48 EDT
The Rasterbator
[bobsalive]
Aug 19 2005, 15:22 EDT
Create huge, rasterized, printable images from any picture.
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Over There run amok
Aug 17 2005, 23:13 EDT [updated Aug 17 2005, 23:54 EDT]
The FX show has been pilloried for trying to be Vietnam in the desert but the latest episode left Vietnam for la-la land. It isn't terribly difficult to hire a military consultant. You can even get an Iraq vet at a decent price. I don't know how that p
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Davy Crocket rides no more
Aug 17 2005, 20:48 EDT [updated Aug 17 2005, 20:51 EDT]
The University of Tennesse is dropping
Davy Crocket from their apparel. I'm sensative to this particular kind of progress, more likely to be standing athwart history yelling Stop. My own Alma Mater tried to replace the team name of "The Engineers" with
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Differently Abled
Aug 16 2005, 19:25 EDT [updated Aug 16 2005, 19:33 EDT]
Charles Krauthammer is a cripple. I admire him for it because he never mentions it. It simply isn't applicable to his daily writing and punditry*. Someone has to pick him up and put him in a chair every day for his daily billing on Special Report with B
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Naked Creek
Aug 16 2005, 15:28 EDT [updated Aug 16 2005, 15:49 EDT]
This is my first post in a long time. I tell this story a lot. It is funny. I do not judge the lifestyles of those involved but since it is not something I would consider "normal" I find it odd. So I guess I do judge but not condem.
All events are true
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Using game theory
Aug 16 2005, 13:49 EDT [updated Aug 16 2005, 14:29 EDT]
Fast company has an article that, outside of folks buying spectrum from the Feds, no one uses game theory. I haven't run into game theory at work, but I've only worked in a small number of places. We did hire an economist at one place. I think the economi
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Starved and Always Sunny
Aug 15 2005, 01:59 EDT [updated Aug 16 2005, 00:07 EDT]
The locus of good TV has left the pay channels (Dead Like Me and JMS's Jeremiah were canceled dead. The Sapranos average one episode every two years.) The Sci-Fi channel is picking up the slack with Battlestar Galactica which is a much better adaptatio
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Amateurs Rule
Aug 13 2005, 01:53 EDT [updated Aug 15 2005, 23:57 EDT]
The kinder term for Amateurs these days is Hobbiest. They mean about the same thing but "amateur" has grown some negative connotations. In practice the only difference between an entrepreneur and a hobbiest is that one tries to sell his hobby. That's i
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Your week in Quickies
Aug 13 2005, 01:02 EDT
9/11 on Trial
[teddied]
Aug 12 2005, 10:12 EDT
In other news...Apollo Lunar landing proved to be desert in Arizona and filmed by Bigfoot
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Those Fat Americans Take to the Skies
Aug 12 2005, 13:57 EDT [updated Aug 12 2005, 14:07 EDT]
FNC just had a story on Dayside stating that airlines are having trouble because passengers are getting heavier. So heavy, in fact, that it is screwing up the center of gravity of planes. By itself that seems plausible, if a bit of a stretch. Implaus
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God Speed bobsalive
Aug 12 2005, 11:39 EDT [updated Aug 12 2005, 11:42 EDT]
bobsalive and one of his minor organs are parting ways half an hour from now. We wish him the best. He won't be getting any visitors at the hospital due to the wonders of modern medicine. They can put you out, dike out an organ and send you home in und
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More Over There
Aug 08 2005, 00:24 EDT [updated Aug 08 2005, 00:46 EDT]
"Over There" breaks the mold; it is the first show to dress up the last war (Vietnam) as the current war (Iraq). The pilot espidoe oozed wanting to live Vietnam but the current episode is mixed (which is promising). Previously I said FX's Iraq war show
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Anchor Oops
Aug 06 2005, 20:10 EDT [updated Aug 06 2005, 22:32 EDT]
I love it when news anchors try to throw out a comment that sounds cute but makes no sense. FNC had a 10 second story on a 100 year old woman who attributes her health to drinking a beer every day since she was 10. His quip "I wonder what she did on her
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Cell Phone Lots
Aug 05 2005, 19:47 EDT [updated Aug 26 2005, 18:20 EDT]
Update: If google brought you are probably looking for the directions to the Philly "Park & Ride" lot (what a terrible name).
[I'm madly lazy, so I'm posting my comment to a Corner post as a post itself.]
Jonathan Adler mentions Seattle's cell phone l
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Taxicabo Italiano
Aug 04 2005, 09:21 EDT [updated Aug 04 2005, 14:49 EDT]
I had an Italian cab driver. In Boston. Off the boat Italian, not the native US kind. It took some convincing before I believed him (although the mustache aided his story). I talk to cabbies, its what I do. By the end of the fifteen minute drive he w
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The Joys of Nature (1 image)
Aug 02 2005, 17:42 EDT [updated Aug 02 2005, 20:07 EDT]
Ooops This isn't a mayfly after all. I was mislead by this picture. A fly fishing reader writes that this is a Eastern Dobsonsfly (thanks Alberto). The description "The Eastern Dobsonfly is a ferocious looking creature" is certainly dead on. And those
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Your week in Quickies
Aug 02 2005, 09:11 EDT
Google Search for Dead Frenchman
[jackdied]
Aug 02 2005, 05:28 EDT
My purpose in life is complete.
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A Purpose Driven Calf
Aug 02 2005, 00:32 EDT [updated Aug 02 2005, 11:44 EDT]
God wants you to be happy. If you are happy you are doing God's will.
What could be simpler? Well, nothing could be simpler and that's a problem.
There are plenty of Christianity-light alternatives to choose from like Unitarianism (We believe in a
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