I get an e-mail to Reason’s letters address at least once per week from an unemployed IT professional outraged by outshoring. The most recent contained the following: Americans are being penalized because their standard of living requires them to earn at least 60,000 a year against the 6,000 a year an indian makes and less […]

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“I have recently been made aware of a market practice known as ‘short selling’ and am amazed that it is legal.” —Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson (Via Overlawyered.)

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I often think that if people had to face up to what BCRA really says, and what speech it bans, there would be more outrage about it. That in mind, I think someone ought to take out take out an ad in late October in which someone says the following: We believe in unfettered political […]

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Will has a humorous and brutal takedown of an embarassingly bad Jenny Roback Morse piece on the “natural, organic” purposes of sexuality. Unlike many conservatives, Morse actually refers to evolutionary psychology while invoking “nature.” Like most, however, she doesn’t seem to have a clue about the science itself. Oh, and I’ll add to Will’s list […]

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I’ve gone through and linked my Reason pieces over on the Essays page.

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The following occured to me (as most such thoughts do) during a conversation over a few beers last night: We have suffix-equivalents of more- and most-, the endings -er and -est. They’re cute, she’s cuter, he’s the cutest, etc. But there aren’t negative equivalents, either prefix or suffix, for less- and least-. I think I […]

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If you’ve been following the continuing saga of John R. Lott, or, for that matter, reading this site for a while, you already know about Mary Rosh. But have you heard of Washingtonian?

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I’ve got a new piece on the campaign finance decision up at Reason: “Undue Influence.” And just for fun, here’s a nice excerpt from Buckley v. Valeo, which the court claimed to be following in their ruling. You tell me if you can square this with the decision in McConnell v. FEC: While the independent […]

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Apparently, the North Korean Rodong missile is now a “weapon of mass destruction.” The article linked by Il Blogdrino as evidence of Saddamn’s WMD program contains this assessment: What is also interesting about the shopping list, however, is “what’s not on it,” said one investigator. “Nothing nuclear, no dual-use items, nothing about weapons of mass […]

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