As you might imagine, I agree with what I read on the Huffington Post about half the time. Here's a great piece on moving your money from big national banks to small community banks, to cut down on the shenanigans:

The idea is simple: If enough people who have money in one of the big four banks move it into smaller, more local, more traditional ( Read more... )

I've stopped giving gifts at Christmas (except for perhaps the girlfriend and immediate family). My theory is that generally Christmas gifts are necessities (like socks) which are better when bought by the wearer, or knick-knacks that the recipient would never have chosen to buy and which fill up his house. So now I just figure out how much I would ( Read more... )

Here's the article, via realclearpolitics.

Excerpts:

Comes now the House-passed health care "reform" bill that, amazingly, would extract more subsidies from the young. It mandates that health insurance premiums for older Americans be no more than twice the level of younger Americans. That's much less than the actual health spending gap between ( Read more... )

Last night I was at a board meeting at a high-end house, and they didn't ask us to take off our shoes when we came in. I'm so used to "shoes-off" houses at this point that I was taken aback. So I asked Jen if maybe this "shoes-off" thing is recent. She gave me a 5 minute summary of the etiquette and technology behind the "shoes-off" issue and was ( Read more... )

Here's George F. Will, pointing out that it is unprecedented to use the interstate commerce clause to force someone to engage in a commercial activity (in this case buying health insurance). Regulating transactions that already exist (forcing you to by car insurance if you choose to drive), we do. Forcing entirely new transactions on people? ( Read more... )

Tomorrow at 5:00am I leave for Burning Man. I've got almost all of my stuff into an old military-style foot locker. I believe it will be good camp furniture.

I'll be back around the 8th or 9th.

Wish me luck!

Here's a Wall Street Journal article about the CIA's handling of terrorist interrogations. Henniger seems to think that it's not legitimate to try CIA agents because the agency "received 'multiple written assurances its methods were lawful.'"

That's fair. If the government's lawyers tell you that something is legal, you shouldn't be on the hook for ( Read more... )

Tomorrow morning it's off to POH camp for a week! Then home for a few days before heading off to Burning Man!

Then I have to find a job. Phooey.

This article raises an interesting question that everyone who thinks about affirmative action should be thinking about: What's the expiration date?

Also to think about: Who should affirmative action help? Should affirmative action only help unsuccessful minority groups, or all minority groups? When whites become a minority among many (in 2042 or so ( Read more... )

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