I am pretty harsh on Kos and company a lot of the time, but I thought his latest advertising campaign was a classy touch. Go check out the third blogad (“Support Your Favorite Bloggers”) on Ezra’s site. Read it, and click the ad. But read Ezra’s post on the Gas tax v. CAFE standards first.
The Left’s Bill Frist
Apparently remote diagnosis isn’t simply the domain of GOP Senators: Although I would never make a medical diagnosis without examining a patient, I feel confident in my observation that George W. Bush is a new kind of bi-polar: the poles being indifference and destructive violence. His indifference to families who lost their sons and daughters …
Legal Urban Legends
Via Ezra Klein, this LA Times piece on what they call ‘legal urban legends’: Merv Grazinski set his Winnebago on cruise control, slid away from the wheel and went back to fix a cup of coffee. You can guess what happened next: The rudderless, driverless Winnebago crashed. Grazinski blamed the manufacturer for not warning against …
Sports Franchises and Stadium Deals
What he said.
United Airlines
I just don’t get it: United Airlines, which is operating in bankruptcy protection, received court permission yesterday to terminate its four employee pension plans, setting off the largest pension default in the three decades that the government has guaranteed pensions. Members of the Association of Flight Attendants marched in Washington Tuesday to urge a judge …
Health Care
Am I just being jaded and cynical when I look at arguments like this back and forth between Ezra Klein and the folks at Q and O and all I think is, “Why bother? The debate is over.” I opposed nationalized health care, but I think I see the writing on the wall. It is …
ANWR
It never ceases to amaze me how silly many on the left are about the prospect of drilling in ANWR. Any reasonable solution to our dependence on foreign oil should include: 1.) Domestic drilling 2.) Research for alternative fuel sources other than the outrageous slush-fund known as ethanol subsidies, which should be exhibit A in …