For the first time since beginning this series a couple years ago, I'm not convinced that it's just a...
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The Day Previously Known As Tax Day Poll
Some of us have received a reprieve this year. Are you among them? Tonight's queries: Do you file your taxes...
The Essential Way to Destroy Rights
Coronavirus Lockdown, Day 13. We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled...
Fun with State Boundaries
As is the case when the democrats don't have control of an institution, it has come in vogue for them to...
US Dollar Hospitalized After Stimulus Overdose
WASHINGTON - Tragedy struck yesterday as the world's reserve currency was rushed to the ICU. Outside the...
COVID19 and the NAP: A Legal/Ethical Analysis, Pt. 2 of 2
In Part 1, I ended with Learned Hand's famous cost-benefit formulation in the Law of Negligence: Since there...
Drunk on Statistical Power (or Sucking Cohen’s d)
I wouldn't have thought that such a salient example of the hubris inherent in the modern technocratic...
COVID19 and the NAP: A Legal/Ethical Analysis, Pt. 1 of 2
I hadn't been in the comments as much last week because of work/life stuff, but I did catch a snippet of some...
The Beer Wars: An Incomplete History of the American Beer Industry (pt 3)
Part 1 Part 2 This is part 3, of at least 6, articles on the Beer Wars, beginning with a some background...
Social Security and Me
The Social Security Act was signed into law in 1935 by the president, FDR. Even at the time of signing FDR...