1. Only in Texas. Smokin' hot tortilla chips. No, really, smokin'. Twice. Or four times.
2. Vomit fraud, by Uber drivers. It's easy to send a photo, of course. But it wasn't that passenger. One guy was "lucky" enough to get defrauded twice in one day. Uber decided no one is that full....
3. Our favorite headlines. That's the Rhode Island version. Then
4. On immigration, and the first stone....
5. On the airline seat comfort question, I think the evil airline CEOs have a point. The default is a relatively roomy, but expensive seat. If you want a DISCOUNT, then you want the smaller seat. But then you can't complain that the seat is smaller. That's why it's cheaper! If you don't want the smaller seat, pay the standard price.
6. Hess's "Triangle of Spite." And more about the Hess Triangle.
7. Ocasio-Cortez, whatever she is, is NOT a socialist. Our president, on the other hand...
8. The "hot water challenge." Really? What is wrong with you people?
9. This is NSFW. It's actually not safe for anything, and you shouldn't watch it. But some of the bad puns are pretty good. Still, you'll never get that 6 minutes back. Don't blame me. But it's a guy using the worst pickup lines in history, badly. What could be wrong with that? For context, that's all in response to this sort of thing.
10. Ms. McArdle enters the lion's den, and says a lot of things that make sense. She will be publicly shamed for this, of course. The comments will be worth reading, if you like unintentional self-parody by half-wits.
11. Interesting commentary on the nature of competition. Neo-classical conception is that everyone is a price-taker. The "main line" economics answer (thanks, Peter Boettke) is that there are viable alternatives available to consumers. The point is that price-setters can still be disciplined by "competition," if regulators will allow it.
12. It is far more likely, ridiculously more likely, that your child will be hurt in your house or in your car, than standing alone in a park or walking on a street. But so many people virtue signal ("I care") about nonsense. We think nothing of the child being in our house, or car. Because the chances of danger are not THAT high there. The point is that the chance of your child being snatched by a stranger are much LESS than that. Kids should be free range.
13. Your dog is MORE human than you think. Or, maybe less.
14. Understanding trade deficits. And some more.
15. "Ghosting" employers. You can understand why young people might do this, because they feel they are not being respected or valued by employers. But it hastens the "gig economy."
16. It's one measure of a society to look at how many of its citizens are caged up like animals. But its even worse when nearly 3/4 of the people put in cages have not even been convicted of a crime.
17. The English Premier League is capitalist. The NBA is socialist.
18. The Koch brothers have principles. You may not agree with them, or not all of them. But this is a strange way to write about the attempt to shame CGK by saying he is not Trump ENOUGH.
19. Alcohol and caffeine made civilization.
20. One thing that Ayn Rand and Immanuel Kant agreed on was this: your moral principle must generalize. This one doesn't .
21. I don't know that Harry Truman checked out Mozart while he did Tae Bo. But his story does remind us that there's room to grow.
22. Syndrome E.
Grand Lagniappe: This seems okay. But what if the "earth moves" because...well....you know. What then? (UPDATE: My "friend" Megan McArdle of the Wapo commented that I was too old to be jumping on the bed. It's good to have friends, isn't it?)
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