This is a weird comment thread on a post about the latest crusade of the nanny state — against salt.
This would actually be good for me, because I have cut way back on the salt over the past few months, and have thereby reduced my blood pressure, but neither my salt intake, or anyone else’s, is the business of the FDA.
[Update late morning]
More thoughts on the FDA and sodium at Reason.
Some thoughts on the Norwegian mass murderer and appropriate punishment.
The Occumorons declare their goal. No wonder Pelosi and Obama endorsed them.
An interview on the subject of space transportation safety. Just for the record, I have always thought, and continue to think, that the notion that private operators are likely to be less safe than NASA to be foolishly ludicrous. All the incentives are the other way.
Thoughts on our continuing fecklessness with regard to the Iran threat.
[Update a few minutes later]
Michael Totten says that the war may have already started, quietly. Well, it wasn’t that quiet in Isfahan.
They’ve cloned a Stradivarius with a 3-D printer. I don’t think we’re that far from Star Trek replicators.
The economic and market effects of this technology will be far reaching. For instance, as Eric Drexler pointed out in the eighties, what happens when there is no way, other than a chain of custody, to tell the difference between the original Mona Lisa and an exact copy?
Megan McArdle explains.
Did Mitt Romney miss out on the sixties?
The blue model batters black America. Black unemployment is now above 15%. So that’s what the change has been for Eric Holder’s people.
…comes the ice. Thoughts on a new book by Jerry Pournelle.