RIP.
I’m glad that someone cared about government waste, but I always found his annual book a little frustrating, because he would go after some tiny pointless study, as though that was where the problem was. He seemed to have an instinct for the capillary.
It’s time to get our fiscal house in order.
And no, reforming conservatism should not include embracing the New Deal.
On that last link, I hadn’t been aware that Conrad Black is an admirer of FDR. That’s disappointing.
Regulation kills.
[Update a few minutes later]
Distillers have to fight the FDA bureaucracy to produce hand sanitizer.
The American people think it’s been doing a terrible job of covering the coronavirus. The American people are right.
After too many decades, almost a century, the people have pulled aside the curtain, and the man behind it has been exposed.
…is dire.
I’ve never frequented them much; I think the price for a drink at one is ridiculous, but they’re an important element of culture.
Hey, I’d like to end them, too, but his solution–to go vegetarian–is not nutritionally viable to me. It would be in no way a dietary improvement.
It sure would be great if we could somehow manufacture meat without the suffering, though. It’s a technology that would be very useful for spaceflight.
I agree; it’s looking more likely by the day.
[Update a few minutes later]
Is the pandemic making Trump stronger? And how the establishment continues to not get it.
[Update a while later]
Trump’s strategic foresight is being put to the test.
A hard look.
I’m unlikely to be killed by this thing, but I don’t want to even get it, let alone be hospitalized.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Why that doomsday scenario is likely way off.
[Bumped]
[Wednesday-afternoon update]
Bob Zimmerman doesn’t think that this will overwhelm our national hospital capacity. Though it does seem to be doing so in New York city.
…revealed by the pandemic. The latter two are particularly important.
[Update a while later]
Related: A litany of useless laws have been exposed as well.
[Update a while more later]
The coming age of dispersion.
We’ve been wanting to get out of the city for a long time. Most people don’t realize how large and empty the American west is, including California itself. New technology is going to make it increasingly possible and affordable to live comfortably off the grid.