“A fiscal fantasyland.”
That’s actually a pretty good description of the District of Columbia in general.
[Update a few minutes later]
The drug pusher in DC:
An initial bailout of state governments eases their pain and makes them feel better for a little while, after which they’re going to crash without another fix.
It’s all part of the goal of making us all dependent on them.
From the early thirties. Some things never change. Unfortunately.
Charles Stross explains.
…by Life Magazine, in 1938 (starts on page 31). Yup, that Italy was sure one right-wing, unregulated capitalist nirvana.
Is this the year that the media no longer cheer leads the warm mongers?
Now it’s up to us.
I find it ironic that the thuggish congressman Grayson is accusing Republicans of wanting people to die, when Robert Reich is very explicit about that as the Dem’s plan.
…in outer space. Glenn Reynolds and Kenneth Anderson on bombing the moon.
…from its petty detractors. I wish that we could come up with some other word for free market systems, though — “capitalism” is intrinsically a Marxist concept.
[Via (and viva) Veronique, a most sensible Frenchwoman]
Paul Spudis says that the public is justified in being disappointed in LCROSS, to the degree that they are. he seems to be.
An interview, by Air & Space magazine.
[via Parabolic Arc]