Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month July 2010
Oakland okays huge marijuana farms
The permits for four industrial-scale marijuana farms is for medicinal (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) pot only of course. Small pot growers are honked off, afraid they’ll be pushed out of the business.
Sherrod and the limitless credulity of the Beltway crowd
Krugman So now Tom Vilsack, the Agriculture secretary, says that he may “reconsider”. I’d lay even odds that the Sherrod firing stands, even though it was totally unjust, because people in DC are so accustomed to cringing in the face…
Poor whites most discriminated against in elite college admissions
An exhaustive study by Princeton University, No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life, polling thousands of college student enrollments at elite universities shows a decided bias against poor Whites as well…
Wind turbines in residential skyscraper
The Strata Tower (AKA ‘The Electric Razor”) has opened in the re-emerging Elephant and Castle area of London. Its three built-in wind turbines will generate 8% of the building’s power, assuming all goes well. But are they just a tokenistic…