La-Z-Blog-O-Rama

Excerpts from posts that have interesting things to say or point out. Yep, I'm simultaneously busy and lazy. Yet, the blog must go on.

Via the Mises.org Blog:

1. How taxpayer money is used
   A woman was fined for holding an apple while performing a maneuver in a car. Aside from the absurdity of this, it cost the government far more to prosecute her than what they obtained from the fine...
   
2. D'Amico/Block Working Paper
   A Legal and Economic Analysis of Graffiti, by Daniel J. D'Amico and Walter Block (George Mason University and Loyola University New Orleans)

Via Reason's Hit & Run:

1. Esoteric Fringe Group or Esoteric Joke?
   The strangest news to emerge from the school massacre in Minnesota is that Jeffrey Weise, the shooter, was allegedly affiliated with the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party.
   
2. It Is Forbidden for You to Interfere in Human History
   Don Boudreaux reads a libertarian message into a deleted scene from Superman now available on the DVD. According to Marlon "Jor-El" Brando...

Via Samizdata:

1. Your passport does not tell you who you are
   For many Americans who see the state as being the central and most important institution there is, the axis around which civil society orbits, the whole idea of 'dual nationality' is deeply disturbing.
   
2. Families, freedom and unchosen obligations
   A few weeks ago parts of the libertarian intellectual scene marked what would have been Ayn Rand's 100th birthday. Among a number of articles reflecting on her life and novels was this surprisingly conservative article by Reason magazine regular Cathy Young.

Via Catallarchy:

1. Money For Nothin’ And Your Picks For Free
   Like most Americans, I am currently breaking the law by participating in an NCAA tournament betting pool with friends and co-workers.
   
2. Economics In Short Lessons: If You’re Paying, I’ll Have Top Sirloin
   Don Boudreaux today linked to an old but excellent WSJ article by Russell Roberts. The article is a simple, classic example of how “splitting the bill” is a disastrous way to pay for things...

Via The London Fog:

1. Hey! Isn't that jumping the queue?
   London is raising private funds in an attempt to deal with the doctor shortage...
   
2. Line up for your rations
   With all due respect to Patrick, I ask by what right and sanction are our elected representatives endowed with the ability to garnish our wages and spend our earnings on things not of our own choosing.

Via Two--Four:

1. Look At How It's Drivin' Em Nuts
   You know... some days, you can't even take a piss in your own front yard before some goddamned fool comes along with a gang behind him to tell you what to do.
   
2. Nikoley Points Out Stossel
   Rich Nikoley runs down the action after John Stossel recently stripped "art" naked and threw it out in the alley where it currently belongs.

Via The Agitator: shit, just keep reading. Radley Balko has been on a roll documenting the continuing, forced insertion of others into our lives.

Be back later.

Posted by Drizzten at March 23, 2005 02:09 PM