I didn’t realize that Japan had enacted a law that will certainly improve it’s economic malaise: Under a national law that came into effect two months ago, companies and local governments must measure the waistlines of Japanese people ages 40 to 74 as part of their annual checkups. That represents more than 56 million waistlines, or about 44
A remorseful Dr. Frankenstein speaking to Captain Walton about the monster he (Frankenstein) created and unleashed, “You seek for unlimited power , as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.” (quote from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , paraphrased) It’s election eve
I say I’m nosy, my wife says I’m bitter. She’s probably right. Regardless, our township contracts out residential refuse and garbage removal. All residents are required to pay for the service, whether they use it or not. The current contract was about to end so the township sent it out for bid. Since I am nosy (my view), I wanted to see what
Thomas L. Friedman notes that, “Sridhar, Bloom’s co-founder and C.E.O., said his fuel cells, which can run on natural gas or biogas, can generate electricity at 8 to 10 cents a kilowatt hour, with today’s subsidies .” (emphasis mine) Today’s subsidies?!? What is the price absent handouts? That’s what I want to know. I cheer folks like Sridhar as
On my way home from work I was browbeaten by a timely public service announcement: Acting U.S. Fire Administrator Glenn Gaines wants you to Put Safety In Play During the Fourth of July . Of course you can be assured that Gaines is vigilant when it comes to your safety. He is, after all, acting U.S. fire administrator of the U.S. Fire
An article over at The Economist comments on the Austrian business-cycle theory. The article states, “The Austrians may have said smart things about the boom, but what about the bust? One criticism is that the Austrians offered a ‘counsel of despair’, suggesting that the authorities do nothing while a crisis blows itself out.” The authorities do
Some folks strain to find their agenda in every event. For Georgie Anne Geyer , state-mandated population control provides the only hope for her agenda: saving the environment, whatever that means. So she sees the heat, drought and fires this summer in Russia as proof that Malthus was right, all along. Yet While it is true that today’s disasters
Two articles from a recent edition of The Columbus Dispatch make use of meaningless aggregations. First off is the collective political force. A columnist writes , “But in November, voters elected a Democratic House and a Republican Senate to safeguard Ohio’s cashbox.” As if voters across the state conspired to split the Ohio legislature.
Californians can once again home school their children without fear of the state (well, almost). Is this a victory for Liberty? Or did homeschoolers in CA simply benefit from a lucky pull on the legal slot machine — a pull that this time came up three smiling judges? Of course, the latter is the case. The next challenge to homeschooling in CA
“In all the general assemblies Marin always demands that the older boys like him shall have more work than the younger ones. There is always a big discussion on this; sometimes it is settled one way, sometimes another. “I can work all day from sun-up to dark,” boasts Marin, “and it won’t hurt me now. But when I was little, I sprained my wrist from
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