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Michigan Woman Faces Jail Time For Vegetable Garden

The fact that this kind of thing doesn’t seem to prompt much in the way of outrage from the very same people who are scandalized by increased regulation of light bulbs tells you a lot about American politics. For one thing, there are several giant industries willing and eager to put up lots of money… Continue reading Michigan Woman Faces Jail Time For Vegetable Garden

Krugman on Keynes

This video of Krugman on Keynes is worth watching.

The Obama-Keynes Mystery

here’s an unprofessional speculation: maybe it’s personal. Maybe the president just doesn’t like the kind of people who tell him counterintuitive things, who say that the government is not like a family, that it’s not right for the government to tighten its belt when Americans are tightening theirs, that unemployment is not caused by lack… Continue reading The Obama-Keynes Mystery

David Brooks realizes GOP no longer a “normal” political party

A normal Republican Party would seize the opportunity to put a long-term limit on the growth of government. It would seize the opportunity to put the country on a sound fiscal footing. It would seize the opportunity to do these things without putting any real crimp in economic growth. The party is not being asked… Continue reading David Brooks realizes GOP no longer a “normal” political party

Bill Clinton: GOP Voting Crackdown Worst Since Jim Crow

Former President Bill Clinton lit into Republican efforts in several states to pass new restrictions on voting, comparing the measures to the oppressive Jim Crow laws of the past. From TPMDC Someone had to say it.

Hedge Fund Hippies

Mr. Biggs, former chief global strategist for U.S. investment banking powerhouse Morgan Stanley, demanded the U.S. government temporarily return to ideas used in the Great Depression as a way to get the country back to higher growth. “What the U.S. really needs is a massive infrastructure program … similar to the WPA back in the… Continue reading Hedge Fund Hippies

Did Michael Jackson artificially lighten his skin?

I’ve heard the same old rumors (as I’m sure many others have) since the early 1990’s, some insisting Jackson had his skin somehow lightened, either chemically or medically. Others explain that he had a skin condition known as vitiligo, which turns skin lighter through depigmentation. People counter that argument by saying there has never been… Continue reading Did Michael Jackson artificially lighten his skin?

MTR, where have you been all my unix life?

I’m kicking myself for not learning about MTR sooner. Much nicer than old school traceroute.

Friendship of Justice and Magnate Puts Focus on Ethics

That friendship is important to determining whether Justice Thomas’s interactions with Mr. Crow conflict with the code, said Raymond J. McKoski, a retired state judge in Illinois who wrote a law review article on charitable fund-raising by judges. If Justice Thomas did not “misuse the prestige of office” in getting Mr. Crow to take on… Continue reading Friendship of Justice and Magnate Puts Focus on Ethics

Michele Bachmann’s Holy War

Michele Bachmann is almost certainly the funniest thing that has ever happened to American presidential politics. Fans of obscure 1970s television may remember a short-lived children’s show called Far Out Space Nuts, in which a pair of dimwitted NASA repairmen, one of whom is played by Bob (Gilligan) Denver, accidentally send themselves into space by… Continue reading Michele Bachmann’s Holy War