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Daily Archives: June 11th, 2013

Yet one more modest proposal

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

David Atkins asserts that someday it will be a crime for Wal-mart to pay its employees so little that most of them end up getting food stamps or some other form of government aid. I’m not sure about that, but it occurs to me that a sufficiently creative state legislature could do something about this. […]

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Different rules for different folks

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

A few stories picked up at random on the net, the common thread of which is that it’s good to be a banker or the functional equivalent. Among other things, you get to make your own laws. Consider first, this article from this morning’s Times. When a broker defrauds you, you can’t sue them. Every […]

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Yet another Modest Proposal

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

It seems clear that the chink in the armor of the National Security State is the fact that a lot of normal human beings-the kind that have consciences and know right from wrong- are given access to state secrets. It can’t be avoided. We need drones to handle this stuff. There is only one solution. […]

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