When are people going to learn that price controls don’t work? From the AP: Meat cuts vanished from Venezuelan supermarkets this week, leaving only unsavory bits like chicken feet, while costly artificial sweeteners have increasingly replaced sugar, and many staples sell far above government-fixed prices. President Hugo Chavez’s administration blames the food supply problems on [...]
Archive for November, 2011
….and pretty soon we’re talking about real money. It now appears that just weeks before it disbanded in June 2004, the Coalition Provisonal Authority (CPA) distributed over $5 billion to various Iraqi government agencies and American contractors, which wouldn’t be so strange except for the fact that a good deal of it was cash. In [...]
Insurgents in Iraq have apparently downed another American helicopter, killing all seven Marines on board. But what’s most disturbing about this attack is that it is the fifth helicopter brought down by insurgent attacks in less than three weeks. So have the insurgents just been extremely lucky of late or does this signify an extremely [...]
That’s it, Communism is defeated once and for all despite the fact that Chavez and Castro yet live. Why? Old Soviet propaganda cartoons are for sale on Amazon. Okay, that’s not quite enough to really call it once and for all. A friend of mine used to say that the final victory of the free [...]
I know I said that human echolocation might be the craziest thing I’d ever heard about, but this one really takes the cake: a woman who deeply desires to have both her legs removed. She has already had one amputated after she twice attempted to freeze it with dry ice. I consider myself a fairly [...]
Guys, do you want the perfect way to fuck up Valentine’s Day? Well, you’re in luck because this is it. These are some URLs bought by real companies or organizations that didn’t put proper thought into how the address might look as just one word. Here is an attempt to bridge all the plot holes [...]
Ted Galen Carpenter, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, has an excellent–and brief–article up at the Cato website on the implausibility of al Qaeda finding a sanctuary in Iraq if American troops were to withdraw, as most war supporters have suggested. Carpenter writes: Despite such scare mongering, it is [...]
Boston authorities have taken two men, Sean Stevens and Peter Berdovsky, into custody over yesterday’s Mooninite freakout and have charged them with creating a panic. For their part, Stevens and Berdovsky pled not guilty and attended a press conference where they became my new personal heroes–at least for the week–for mocking the absurdity of the [...]
Boston was attacked by the Mooninites today. That’s right, the Mooninites from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, or at least that’s what the local government would have us believe. You see, people saw electronic signs of Ignignokt giving the bird like this one, freaked out and called the police thinking for some reason that they were [...]
