New York’s draconian new gun control law imposed restrictions on everything except the number of innocent bystanders that NYPD can shoot on weekdays. twitter – @jimbovard
Don’t Trust the Feds’ Happiness Index
From the Future of Freedom Foundation (posted online today) Don’t Trust the Feds’ Happiness Index by James Bovard [on Twitter @jimbovard] The Obama administration is financing research to devise a new gauge for Americans’ happiness. A National Academy of Sciences panel is currently analyzing proposals for surveying Americans’ “subjective well-being.” But there are grave perils […]
Theme Cartoon for 2013?
So would this zippety image from the new issue of the New Yorker be a good theme cartoon for 2013?
My Dilbert Cameo?
I thought at first that this Dilbert strip might be referring to me. But since I don’t buy a lot of tissues, I’m off the hook.
Udder Retort in Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal published a letter today responding to my Dairy Cliff article. Farmers perennially complain about losing money. Yet their net worth far exceeds that of the average American household. Did I miss a Keynesian multiplier somewhere? Or is this another mystical triumph like the doctrine of parity? Dairy Farmers Operating at a […]
Slightly Revised Public Policy Hooligan Cover
The consensus on Facebook comments of a pair of possible book covers was overwhelming that that damn cigar needed to smoke. The drawing is also clearer, thanks to a slightly less cursed Photoshop maneuver. Might touch it up a bit further – still think the cover could benefit from a bomb, gun, and handcuffs discreetly […]
The Turret That Changed My Destiny (Women-wise, anyhow)
In the “Helltown Road Gang Blues” chapter in Public Policy Hooligan, I mention a turret that changed my view on humanity – or at least the female half. The turret was built by Italian and German prisoners of war a dozen years before I arrived on that mountainside across the Shenandoah National Park. PPH includes […]