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Sunday, 2006 July 30, 17:53 — California, me!me!me!

nothing lasts forever

The landlady wants us out by Thanksgiving.

Perhaps it’s time to consider other regions. Does your town, by any chance, have a shortage of accurate typists?

Monday, 2006 July 24, 08:38 — drugwar

“An Epidemic of ‘Isolated Incidents’”

Radley Balko has finished and published his report, Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America.

Saturday, 2006 July 22, 19:54 — drugwar

the FDA must die

The only effective treatment for Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s narcolepsy is no longer available, thanks to the risk-averse regulatory establishment.

You know what they say: if a regulation can save just one life (in six years) — who cares how many others it wrecks?

Saturday, 2006 July 22, 16:41 — California

fret globally, sweat locally

I took a cold shower a few minutes ago and now the water dripping in my hair is hot. Any more of this and the chemo-kids are welcome to my amber waves!

Seriously, do you know of any organization around here that collects hair for charity?

Saturday, 2006 July 22, 15:36 — blogdom, spam

spam-b-gone

Akismet appears to be effective in protecting WordPress blogs from spam.

Friday, 2006 July 21, 16:57 — blogdom

pardon our dust

I reinstalled WordPress and evidently broke something in the process: permalinks (to individual entries) give blank pages. Reading by date, on another hand, still works.

Friday, 2006 July 21, 16:13 — economics, politics

elsewhere

Will Wilkinson debunks the notion that private charity would be better spent to “leverage” government spending — in other words, in rent-seeking.

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