“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

…So in response to one of my

In response to his sending me Frank Rich’s latest attempt at suggesting that systemic intelligence failures are brought about by self-serving Bush administration policies, I brought this Chris Caldwell Weekly Standard piece to the attention of one of my hardcore lib buddies, and he about flew out of his sandals and blew bean sprouts out of his nose. “Low Profile”: George W. Bush waited until he was safely in Europe

In response to his sending me Frank Rich’s latest attempt at suggesting that systemic intelligence failures are brought about by self-serving Bush administration policies, I brought this Chris Caldwell Weekly Standard piece to the attention of one of my hardcore lib buddies, and he about flew out of his sandals and blew bean sprouts out of his nose. “Low Profile”: George W. Bush waited until he was safely in Europe

Writing for The National Review, National Center for Policy Analysis senior fellow Bruce Bartlett takes a look at the “comparable worth” of men and women in the work force, and finds some not-so-surprising (to my way of thinking) trends: As time has gone by, young women entering the labor force for the first time have found a profoundly different environment than their mothers faced. According to an article in the

From the Department of Know Thine Enemy…. Above: Angry-haired Harvard Professor of Latin and Greek, Richard Thomas, shown here in his earlier days, posing as a brooding radical leftist while slumming it on his parents’ dime. Black and white really brings out his angst, wouldn’t you agree? His concern looks almost “authentic.” Liminal, even. Today, Dr. Thomas — Chair of the Harvard standing committee on commencement parts — is a

So as a prelude to Memorial Day weekend, Coloradans awoke this morning to the sight of snow blanketing their radish plants and herb gardens. Scallions? Dead. Sage? Didn’t stand a chance. Basil? Never saw it coming. Me, I awoke to the sight of a blanket of snow covering the seats and dash and floorboards of my Jeep. Consequently, I’ll have to shovel my way in to the car before I