*If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you love them, though you may or may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own. And in that time when

From University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein’s “Taking the Con out of Con. Law,” in the latest National Review (subscriber’s only, so I’ll quote at length): What should the justices do with [the McCain-Feingold] campaign-finance law? For starters, it would seem odd to engage in a strict construction of the phrase ‘freedom of speech’ that would prohibit individuals from acting collectively for political action. No sensible interpretation of the

“Armed and Dangerous’s” Eric Raymond has a nice critique of this noteworthy Eli Lehrer Weekly Standard piece, “Crime Without Punishment,” which details rising European crime rates. Observes Raymond: The article proposes as an explanation that local control of policing is more effective than Europe’s system of large centralized police agencies. This may well be true; in fact, it probably is true. But it fails to explain the time variance —

“Armed and Dangerous’s” Eric Raymond has a nice critique of this noteworthy Eli Lehrer Weekly Standard piece, “Crime Without Punishment,” which details rising European crime rates. Observes Raymond: The article proposes as an explanation that local control of policing is more effective than Europe’s system of large centralized police agencies. This may well be true; in fact, it probably is true. But it fails to explain the time variance —

Nice Megan McArdle Salon piece on the incipient movement to litigate the everlovin’ saturated fat out of junk food: Lawyers and activists, flush from the tobacco victories, think they have found [a solution to obesity]: Sue the companies who sell us the junk we overeat. They talk about recovering the costs of obesity-associated diseases. But the real hope is that by going after the companies, they can force changes in

A couple of interesting posts re: postmodernism, Heisenberg, and morality over on the Tres Producers blog, the first of which contains this provocative Eric Olsen philoso-nugget: PoMo isn