Hawai’i entered the Union back in 1959; we’re all agreed on that? Good. Then why is it that so many cursed mail-order operations don’t know it? The number of them who charge extra for shipping to Hawai’i is amazing. What’s really annoying is that many of them ship via US mail, but they still insist …
O.J. Simpson’s book and TV interview have been pulled by News Corp. “I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project,” said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman. “We are sorry for any pain that his has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.” A dozen Fox …
Asked how Bush was interacting with the Vietnamese people, advisor Stephen Hadley said: “If you?d been part of the president?s motorcade as we?ve shuttled back and forth over the course of the day … as you can tell, we?re in the midst of the Vietnamese people all the time,” he said. Right. From the interior …
When you’re trying to avoid getting killed by the good guys, follow these rules: I will not gloat over my enemies’ predicament before killing them. When I’ve captured my adversary and he says, “Look, before you kill me, will you at least tell me what this is all about?” I’ll say, “No.” and shoot him. …
I’ve been wondering what Brad DeLong would have to say about Friedman. As far as I can tell, the man’s policy ideas may have been straightforward in his own mind, but often contradictory to the non-economist. Here was a man who believed that the market could eventually solve most problems and that government interference with …
I wish some of the advocates of partitioning Iraq into three parts (Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the middle, Shiites in the south) would look back to the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947-1948 and see how well that turned out. This photo essay by Margaret Bourke-White shows the misery that resulted from …
That’s one small step for oversight. Yesterday the Senate, on a voice vote, reinstated the office of Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. Do you suppose they read this?
After several postcards from a data collection firm asking me to call and update my biographical info for my fraternity, I finally got around to doing it. They asked for an e-mail address, which I gave them. Then I offered them my web URL. The response was, “Oh, we don’t publish those.” Ah well. At …
The ups: College basketball season has begun and ESPN shows lots of live games The downs: Some of those games have Dick Vitale doing color commentary analysis shouting
Who’d a thunk that Hawai’i would elect a transgendered woman to the school board? According to the story, she’s now got the distinction of being the member of her group holding the highest elected office in the country. Granted, the candidates for school board get pretty limited writeups in the newspapers compared to national legislative …