I haven’t been posting much lately because I’ve been spending most of my time packing all of my possessions into boxes. Ah, the joys of moving. But I have been paying attention to the news, especially the resignation of Justice David Souter and the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. I can’t remember [...]

One of the lead articles on Yahoo News today has the link “Obama says stimulus package saved or created 150,000 jobs”. If you read the actual article you learn that this figure is an estimate based on hypothetical numbers of jobs that would have been lost had there not been a stimulus package, [...]

Today, new credit card reform legislation was voted into law. On the one hand, I didn’t like the practices of a lot of credit card companies. On the other hand, I have some serious qualms about the new legislation.
Ultimately, I worry that the result of this bill will be to protect irresponsible consumers [...]

I really like Stanley Fish’s blog over at the New York Times. His latest articles once again return to the topic of science and religion. He makes a similar point to one that I’ve made before: science lies on a bedrock of faith–faith in reason, observation, and falsification, and therefore it is false [...]

This article presents one of the more challenging dilemmas for libertarians such as myself. I thought it might be an interesting starting off point for discussion. The basic rundown: A child has cancer and could be healed with chemotherapy. The family has religious beliefs that preclude chemotherapy. The government (child protective [...]

I’ve spent most of the last week and a half finding a new apartment. After meeting with half a dozen different real estate agents, and seeing more than a dozen apartments, the search was successful. But in the process, I was reminded at the horrible state of professionalism that you see in modern-day [...]

I tend to be fairly skeptical of government based health care plans. But it looks like this country is headed in that direction. If we have to go that way, lets take advantage of it and use this change to its fullest potential. We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to improve [...]

There is a really good article in the New York Times today on the problem of paid sick leave, specifically the fact that it often doesn’t exist. It reminds me of an episode of the TV show House in once saw. House is talking to a buddy about diseases spreading around the hospital. [...]