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Linky Friday #137: Nixon’s The One
Housing: [Ho1] If Matt Y is right, then this is another reason why zoning is bad. {via Murali} [Ho2] Some teenagers designed a movable village of tiny houses for the homeless. [Ho3] Jeff Fong argues...
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Linky Friday #138: Pan-Nordica
Image by doviende Food: [F1] Bangaladesh is about the get the green light on golden rice. [F2] How the Egg McMuffin came to be. Relatedly, while I think there is something to this, I really want my...
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Linky Friday #139: Humans, Robots, & Onions
Star Wars: Image by eshplagami [SW1] Daniel Drezner writes of the catastrophic success of the Rebel Alliance, as revealed by the new Star Wars trailers. [SW2] Trumwill favorite Jonathan Last, famous...
View ArticleThe State of the Art
So… big changes have been afoot. I’ve been lurking, and one of the lesser changes around here is that I won’t be lurking anymore. I’ve been writing a book, which now is done, publication date still...
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Linky Friday #140: Criminal Ed
Education: Image by Harald Groven [E1] RAND writes about the Department of Education taking another look at Zero Tolerance. [E2] Isolation rooms: Schools like prisons. [E3] Scott Shackford seeks to set...
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Linky Friday #141: God, Family, Terror
Terror: Image by Lion Multimedia Production U.S.A. [T1] One of the questions I asked myself while I was watching things unfold in the aftermath of Paris was why they didn’t go into the stadium....
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Linky Friday #142: Plumber Payday
Labor: Image by Anne Worner [L1] A pilot says that Allegiant Air fired him for putting passenger safety first. [L2] Noah Smith says minimum wages are great, except when they’re not. [L3] It’s not just...
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Linky Friday #143: Rise & Shine
[Ed notes: Comments this week will be monitored very closely. Please be respectful. Also, a new feature has been added, “Tweet of the Week”, which speaks for itself as to what it is. Sometimes it will...
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Linky Friday #144: Far Out
Crime: Image by otisarchives3 [C1] The story of a man who was bilked for over $700,000 by psychics. [C2] A gun ban is most popular among educated whites in DC, and least popular among blacks. [C3] In...
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Linky Friday #145: Politics In Everything
Environment: Image by DonkeyHotey [En1] Mark Begich makes the case for allowing oil exports. Paul Ryan is working on it. [En2] Eric Holthaus is really, really excited about the new climate deal....
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Linky Friday #146: Crime & Daeshment
Crime: Image by LoopZilla [C1] I don’t know, this just doesn’t look accidental to me. At all. [C2] A four year old in Dallas died, and a dark world in dentistry was revealed. [C3] This seems like it...
View ArticleCracks in the Liberal Order
Now: Trump will not be the Republican nominee (yes, really). Bernie Sanders won’t beat Hillary. Far-left antics at Amherst and Oberlin and Claremont McKenna and Yale are not as significant as elite...
View ArticleDavid Frum: Will the Republican Party Survive the 2016 Election?
There are metrics, after all, by which the post-2009 GOP appears to be a supremely successful political party. Recently, Rory Cooper, of the communications firm Purple Strategies, tallied a net gain to...
View ArticleWilliam Voegeli: The Reason I’m Anti-Anti-Trump
The Trump insurrection is, like the Tea Party, a Jacksonian rebuke in the spirit of William Buckley’s famous preference to be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory over...
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Linky Friday #147: New Year Edition
Britain: UK 2015 General Election Map, Wikipedia[B1] After the vote in the UK for attacking Syria, both male and female MP’s took a lot of heat. Guess who got it worse? [B2] Relatedly, an anti-war site...
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ITW Morning Edition (1/4): Business
This… actually seems reasonable from a legal perspective, but also indicative of not being able to have nice things. Melanie Trottman looks at whether or not boosting the minimum wage decreases...
View ArticleTwo Perspectives on Tamir Rice
A couple worthwhile pieces on Tamir Rice. The first is from JayFromBrooklyn, who was not itching to come to the defense of the police, but nonetheless came to the conclusion that the non-indictment was...
View ArticleITW Morning Edition (1/5): Politics
Wasn’t there an Eddie Murphy movie about this? Erica Grieder explains how Texas Republicans could help deprive Donald Trump (if he wins the nomination) the presidency. The Obama Administration...
View ArticleITW Morning Edition (1/6): Europe
British gun museums may have to disable their guns because EU and because terrorism. Media Lens outlines how thoroughly the media has stacked itself against Jeremy Corbyn. This sounds weird and...
View ArticleITW Morning Edition (1/7): United States
A man is suing his ex-wife for gender-shaming him on the Memo line of his alimony checks. A sea otter broke into an aquarium to give birth to a pup. (Almost enough to help you forget that they’re...
View ArticleFreddie’s Dishonor Roll
For those of you unawares, the media was duped by a fake account purporting to be Ammon Bundy, son of Clive and a part of that mess in Oregon. The most high-profile case is Shaun King, who wrote an...
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Linky Friday #148: Crime & Commerce
Crime: Image by sam_churchill [Cr1] Meet Alabama’s version of Marion Berry, convicted of stealing from the city but re-elected anyway. The local HBCU had a problem with a university president who was...
View ArticleMorning Ed: Oregon {2016.1.11.M}
Before it became the site of the current standoff, residents Malheur County, Oregon, expressed a desire to become a part of Idaho. If my dream of splitting Idaho ever came true, I’d be dipping into...
View ArticleMorning Ed: Middle East {2016.1.12.T}
President Edrogan literally talked a man off the ledge. Well, it was a bridge, but still. That’s cooler than the whole speaking well of Hitler thing. Joseph Lenoff writes of his experience as an...
View ArticleMorning Ed: Crime {2016.1.13.W}
Robert VerBruggen is questioning his prior support for drug decriminalization. He touches on why I take a cautious view (except for pot), but the lack of reform in our War on Drugs has me almost has me...
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