1. A new version of the "broken windows" fallacy?
2. There was a complaint, kids sledding on road. Cops sent their best undercover unit.
3. The market-based "liberal" system has created so much prosperity, and that prosperity is so widely shared, that the two greatest problems facing the poor at this point are (1) obesity and (2) population growth resulting from reduced infant mortality. But the market system can fix that, too: the next stage is to pass the wealth threshold where obesity and birth rate fall. Plus, market systems will fix the environment, and through the same logic.
4. I'm always surprised when people are surprised at the reluctance to switch to "clean energy," which is expensive, inefficient, and not always all that clean.
5. Standard transitional gains trap stuff here. The demand for corn, without ethanol mandate, has been stagnant. So eliminating ethanol mandate (which is hugely expensive and harmful to the environment, since corn is not sugar cane) would cause bankruptcies of many farmers. It does NO GOOD, it's EXPENSIVE, but eliminating it is POLITICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. Welcome to Public Choice, folks!
6. Quite a lot going on here. Prairie ship, that's all Ima say.
7. A dog that plays Jenga. Not everything has to be complex, or ironic, you know.
8. Top 3 episodes of Liberty Law Talk for 2019.
9. A Tale of Two Cleveland Suburbs.
10. Models of legal sex work (Cato podcast).
11. They had a bad day on the road.
12. They had a bad day at a dock on a bay.
13. Pretty amazing "David" story.
14. I am always surprised when people take T-Pikk seriously.
15. Dave Barry's "Year in Review."
16. And the best year in review column I know of, from David Collum. Yes, the Collum column!
Here's Part I, and here's Part II.
17. One way to end the illegal selling of humans is to make sex work legal. These people (mostly women) need rights, not rescue.
18. Brett Stephens steps in it.
Grand Lagniappe: Camel shadows. Hard for a second to understand the perspective....
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