Charles Dodgson at Through the Looking Glass responds to my earlier post on the difference between zoning boards and private, contractual homeowners’ associations. I have a few replies of my own. First off, as an empirical matter, many homeowners’ associations are associated with whole new subidivions from the word go, and are not formed by […]

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Since Radley mentions, in his Tech Central Station piece, my previous loyal opposition to his Commerce Clause attack on the national Do Not Call list, I figure I might as well chip in with a couple of extra points. (I still stand by that analysis, incidentally. If the Framers felt like prohibiting state level trade […]

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I’m slated to be on Kansas City’s KCMO radio later today talking about Roy Moore and the Ten Commandments monument. More details when I know what time the spot’s due to run; you can listen online here. Update: The interview should air on their afternoon news program, around 6:20 Eastern time. Update 2: I thought […]

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The “From:” line on the most recent Nigerian scamspam I received identified the sender as “I am a scammer.”

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Just as I’m dipping into Paul Krugman’s acerbic (and therefore fun) collection Pop Internationalism, I see TAPped offer the following in a discussion of federal funding for higher education: The truth is, it is in the interest of every citizen — that is, every citizen who wants to see the U.S. maintain its edge among […]

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I recently started using the online radio program Spinner, and have happily uncovered a whole slew of music I love that I hadn’t been previously familiar with. Among ’em: The Postal Service (Death Cab for Cutie side project) Cat Power Four Tet Portastatic My Favorite Hint Ui Folk Implosion (Yeah, I know I’m behind the […]

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I often shy away from slippery slope arguments for two reasons. One is that unless you’re willing to talk in some detail about the mechanism of the slip, it’s all too easy to let yourself drift into fanciful doomsday scenarios divorced from any real argument. The other, though, is that they often take your eyes […]

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Demographers seem to have trouble deciding where GenX ends and the Millennials begin: I’ve seen dividing lines ranging from 1975 to 1982. One of the ways people try to track these things is by figuring out when the last children were born who remember some milestone moment—do you remember the Kennedy assassination, or the Challenger […]

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So one of the cloaks opponents of gay marriage use for their disdain for homosexuals (this is charitable: it would be more offensive to assume that they really believe their own flaccid arguments) is that it decouples (no pun intended) marriage from the goal of proceation and child rearing. My reaction to this line of […]

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Amy has a fantastic account of her time in the NYC blackout. I envy her slightly for having been able, during the power outage, to see the stars above the Manhattan skyline, which I never have.

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