White to play and win: (more…)
Moral courage is a much scarcer and more precious commodity than the physical kind, which after all could simply be a kind of stupidity.
Comparing me to Lord Voldemort: (more…)
My pancreas hurts just reading the recipe.
A happy Thanksgiving to everyone. “And he who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious; and the things of this earth shall be added unto him, even an hundred fold, yea, more.”
I think that we are supposed to receive even trials with thankfulness, but that’s a topic for a whole ‘nother sermon.
I feel like we had something in common: (more…)
As Orin Kerr points out, this isn’t even The Onion.
Satire is truly becoming increasingly difficult.
Though, if they had added a strategically placed “to” in the sentence, I might stand with them.
How often have we heard that some miscreant is really a very nice person and his nastiness is completely out of character?
And, yeah, I know. The Sith calling the Jedi black.
Bull.
A critique of inheritance taxes.
One of my office minions gets a very generous Christmas check from her parents every year. Her parents are nice people and have a fair amount of money, but I don’t think this would happen if they weren’t trying to, in effect, slowly give her her inheritance under the Imperial radar.
So what’s so bad about that? She uses the money either to buy nice things she’s wanted for awhile or to pay down her mortgage. Both are nice for her, but neither really contributes much to increased economic productivity, as it likely would if it remained invested by her parents. I believe this is what economists mean by “dead weight.”