Sorry I didn’t put up any fun links on Friday, so to make it up to ya, here are a few things to brighten your Monday. On the road between Saint Louis and my hometown, there is an ice cream shack with a sign that reads “Barbecue/Ice Cream.” So I’ve always imagined barbecue ice cream [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Cato Institute vice president Brink Lindsey shows that present day Dick Cheney disagrees with 1990s Dick Cheney about more than just the Iraq war. ’90s Cheney also thought that sanctions were ineffective and ultimately only served to isolate us. Lindsey helpfully points to the transcript of a luncheon speech Cheney gave at Cato in 1998: [...]
USA Today reports that seniors are now flocking to Mexico: After Jean Douglas turned 70, she realized she couldn’t take care of herself anymore. Her knees were giving out, and winters in Bandon, Ore., were getting harder to bear alone. Douglas was shocked by the high cost and impersonal care at assisted-living facilities near her [...]
Why is it that people seem to struggle financially just as much today, if not more, than twenty years ago despite a fantastic explosion in real per capita GDP. Some might say it’s because the rich are the only beneficiaries of that increased wealth. Others might blame skyricketing medical costs. All of them would be [...]
This morning, I got up at 7:30 and went to work the Bureaucrash table and spread the message of liberty at Warped Tour in the 103 degree Saint Louis swelter. It wasn’t really a pleasant experience, but I had a pretty good time and feel like I tried to change the world for the better [...]
It’s pretty common knowledge that Dick Cheney opposed removing Saddam Hussein from power back in ’91, but here is a short video with him sounding practically prescient about what has ended up happening since he helped launch that invasion back in 2003. Too bad he forgot his own advice about six years ago.
Last night, the Cardinals brought up outfielder Rick Ankiel from the minor leagues, and in his fourth at bat he hit a three run homer to put his team up 5-0. Now, it’s a quite an accomplishment to hit a home run in the major leagues, and even greater one to do it in your [...]
Someday, these bears will have their revenge on the people of Xi’an. This is for anyone who want to appear popular but isn’t. (Link from MR.) The fifty best sports insults–the best is number two. (It’s from a British paper, so a lot of them are about soccer and cricket players.) This guy built a [...]
This month, Cato Unbound is all about anarchy, and in the lead essay George Mason economics professor Peter Leeson argues–almost entirely with empirical evidence–that anarchy can indeed be beneficial. As a motivator for people to read the whole thing, a large chunk of it involves pirates, but here are some tidbits for you lazy motherfuckers [...]
Most of the Democratic presidential candidates have claimed that the government can provide unviersal health care and still spend less money on health care than we do currently by focusing on preventive health care. Well, New York Times economics reporter David Leonhardt throwes some cold water on that idea in today’s article: But the current [...]
