In The Atlantic, former Reason editor-in-chief Virginia Postrel explains the difference in housing prices across cities, and it ain’t all about location: Dallas and Los Angeles represent two distinct models for successful American cities, which both reflect and reinforce different cultural and political attitudes. One model fosters a family-oriented, middle-class lifestyle—the proverbial home-centered “balanced life.” [...]
Archive for November, 2011
I’ve been holding off on this post for news of Joe Torre’s fate, but since that doesn’t seem to be forthcoming…. I really wish I had some money to gamble with at the beginning of the playoffs because I’m batting a hot .750 when it comes to series winners. And even the series I got [...]
In your fucking face Chicago. The Cubs may have won the division, but they just finished embarassing themselves in the playoffs. There are few better sights to a Cardinals’ fan than a disappointed Cubs’ fan, so while this post-season can’t compare to last year’s, it’s still pretty good because I got to see Cubs’ fans [...]
Hillary Clinton has a new plan for the government to give every newborn baby a $5,000 government run trust fund. Naturally, a number of people think this is a wonderful idea, mainly because these people are morons that believe government can create wealth like manna from heaven. (The money quote, as it were, in this [...]
Wharton School business professor Joel Waldfogel has a new book out entitled The Tyranny of the Market: Why You Can’t Always Get What You Want that argues markets fail by not catering to enough niche preferences. There is of course some truth to this: if the market for a good or service is too small [...]
Again, little kids getting ruined is awesome. Yahweh will not be mocked. How fast do you think a bicycle can go? OK, now double that…. Finally, a list of the Top 50 Dystopian Movies. Of the ones I’ve seen, my favorites are Dark City (only 30, what the fuck?), Children of Men, and Brazil, in [...]
So it’s come to this: the busybodies are going after Halloween. This isn’t an entirely recent development. When I was little people got plenty freaked out about razor blades in candy and blue star acid, but any parents who didn’t allow their children to go trick or treating were considered the worst kinds of mollycoddlers, [...]
That feeling won’t last, of course, so Bush should enjoy my rare praise. I’m happy with Bush right now because he vetoed the Democrats’ planned expansion of SCHIP, a program designed to pay for healthcare for children whose parents make too much money to qualify for Medicaid. That may sound nice, but think about this: [...]
First the good news: Ron Paul exceeded everyone’s fundraising expectations by hauling in almost $5.1 million in third quarter donations. That’s still nowhere close to Rudy or Romney–especially when you count the latter’s personal fortune–but it ain’t nuthing to fuck wit. This is the first time I’ve thought that Ron Paul has a realistic chance [...]
They’re finally here again. After the best tie-breaker game in the history of baseball, the playoffs have arrived. Accordingly, here are my annual predictions. Let’s start with the American League. The Yankees-Indians series is a no brainer: the Indians will win it in four. Both teams have extraordinary lineups, but as the old saw goes, [...]
