I have been meaning to post this amazing story of government inefficiency (or is that market efficiency? or both?) for quite a while but kept forgetting until now. Occasionally, you find people who defend the post office as a well-functioning government program, but Justin Ross at The Perfect Substitute points out how absurd that idea [...]
Archive for November, 2011
I like that this guy brought in a Power Point made by his mechanic as evidence. Do not–I repeat: DO NOT–text message while driving! I would love to have this, even if it just got me more lost. 1984 was a really good year for movies, even if I wasn’t old enough to realize it [...]
I saw a few of my Facebook friends’ put this up on their status today: X believes no one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day. Well, who could [...]
The Los Angeles Times is running a good article on how culturally acceptable marijuana has become. It’s an interesting read, and I fully recommend it, but I have a nit to pick with this section: Drug references in popular music have multiplied like, well, weeds in the last three decades. Marijuana’s presence on TV and [...]
