Homage to Icarus

I’m with Robert Love: end those damned agri­cul­tural sub­si­dies, and lower the prices of food. After all, it’s not like the U.S. has a tragic his­tory with over-farming and both eco­nomic and ecolo­log­i­cal destruc­tion, all fol­low­ing the one-two punch of “market-oriented” eco­nomic poli­cies and a hith­erto unprece­dented heat wave.
In that vein, here’s Mr. Sowell (II, III) […]

Last Wednesday night, I was call­ing friends to try and do a lit­tle street the­ater down­town Chicago, in the hopes of pro­vid­ing a par­tic­u­larly gritty infomer­cial and gen­er­at­ing pres­sure on the Senate to not pass S.3930 (aka the “Just Confess to Something Act of 2006″). It appears I wasn’t the only one with the same […]

Friday, on the way home from work, I fig­ured the U.S. would try to shoot down the North Korean mis­sile test. The NPR story men­tioned that pos­si­ble out­come, and they wouldn’t do so unless one of their sources men­tioned it. Further, since the sources for this story would come from the for­eign pol­icy estab­lish­ment, AKA […]