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On August 7, 1832, in Montevideo, Charles Darwin is packing heat. He’s getting grizzled, turning into a rough and tumble explorer. Two weeks earlier he writes: “our beards are all sprouting.— my face at presents looks of about the same tint as a half washed chimney sweeper.— With my pistols in my belt & geological […]
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The Environmental Protection Agency will continue to require that ethanol be used in gas, as the NY Times reports: “…the goal of reducing the nation’s reliance on oil trumps any effect on food prices from making fuel from corn.” Look, I’m not a fan of higher food and grain prices. I love beer, and boy […]
Read MoreI have a few. I have had credit card companies fail at the most basic services. And I’m one of the lucky ones. From a very heavily-commented editorial in today’s New York Times: ‘When the Federal Reserve asked for comments on its proposed rules on abusive credit card practices, an astonishing 56,000 poured in. Most […]
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Susan Aaronson, author of Trade Imbalance gave an opinion piece on NPR’s Marketplace yesterday afternoon. Human rights groups may protest the Columbian free trade agreement, and point to Columbia’s shoddy record of human rights. Ok, yes, it’s shoddy. But should we wave a stick at it and hope it improves? Aaronson points out that what […]
Read MoreWhere to begin? Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal ran an expose on the hoops companies jump through to fund executive pensions. They do it quietly, tweak the pensions of lower-level employees (sometimes in dollars per month) and end up with a big tax shelter for thousands of dollars. Little-Known Move Uses Tax Break Meant For Rank […]
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Once every ten years, bishops from across the Anglican communion (that’s the Episcopalians here in the US) meet at Lambeth palace with the Archbishop of Canterbury. This time around things have radically shifted, since the 2003 elevation of Gene Robinson to bishop of New Hampshire. Robinson is openly gay, and in a decades-long relationship. This […]
Read MoreMan oh man, Charles had a passive-aggressive girlfriend! Charles had taken a liking to Fanny Owen through his Cambridge years, but as he departed on the Beagle voyage, well… She dumped him. Apparently he cared more about his beetle collection than about her. She wished she had given him a pin cushion for his instruments […]
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David K. Levine on keeping your monopoly just long enough to benefit from it -- but not so long as to be, well, a monopoly. Further, Dark Knight did it without government intervention!
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