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All posts by Rand Simberg
Tyranny
A Wisconsin judge rules that dairy farmers have no right to drink milk from their own cows.
[Update a few minutes later]
The judge is defended here, but I agree with commenters that the real problem is the reach of government.
Linux Bleg
Nautilus seems to be broken in my installation of Fedora 14. I try to launch it, and it appears in the task bar momentarily and then disappears. Anyone have any suggestions?
[Update a couple minutes later]
I’ve already uninstalled/reinstalled, in case anyone was going to suggest that.
[Update a while later]
Don’t know why, but now it’s working. Go figure.
Victory Over Iran And Syria
Is it at hand?
Probably not, until we get a new president, who doesn’t “lead from behind.”
A Letter To The Marching Morons
From David Freddoso:
Those people you left stuck in traffic have a hard time paying their bills and rents and health insurance and mortgages. They worry about things like finding decent schools for their children to attend and making sure they don’t get fired at work, and fixing leaking roofs and chimneys.
You know what they don’t worry about, ever? Smashing patriarchy and capitalism.
So when your organizers go on television and say things like, “It’s revolution, not reform!” and they’re not joking, those words might give some of these narrow-minded people an unpleasant, October 1917 kind of feeling.
Read all.
[Late-morning update]
The pathology of capitalism, new and improved with trutherism.
Who Is More Anti-Science?
Republicans, or Democrats?
My biggest problem with Democrats is that they’re anti-economics, with devastating results over the past decades.
[Update a few minutes later]
[Update a while later]
Speaking of Republicans being anti-science, I don’t agree with Herman Cain that being gay is “a choice.” Being straight was never a “choice” for me.
The Era Of Free Stuff
…is over.
I think this is a good thing. A lot of people hate a la carte pricing, but when you bundle things, there are no signals as to what the real demand for various goods and services are. Also, I don’t like subsidizing other people for stuff that I don’t need.
Health, Wealth And Aging
Some thoughts from Sonia Arrison.
Quitting The Euro
Thoughts from Daniel Hannan.
Shut Up!
Well the DOJ woman was just yelling at me. The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me. [Laura: Who was the person? Who was the person at Justice screaming?] Eric Schultz. Oh, the person screaming was [DOJ spokeswoman] Tracy Schmaler, she was yelling not screaming. And the person who screamed at me was Eric Schultz at the White House.”
…And I’m certainly not the one to make the case for DOJ and White House about what I’m doing wrong. They will tell you that I’m the only reporter–as they told me–that is not reasonable. They say the Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, the New York Times is reasonable, I’m the only one who thinks this is a story, and they think I’m unfair and biased by pursuing it.
How unreasonable, to actually report the news.
[Update a while later]
None too soon: House Judiciary Commmittee is (finally) requesting a special counsel to investigate the Attorney General. This time, it’s both the crime and the cover up. And it’s likely to lead to the White House.