Saturday, November 24, 2012

Linkulation!

1.  When motorboating turns deadly.  On the other hand, not such a bad way to go...

2.  Nail house.  Even I think this is a simple case of eminent domain, folks.  If we are going to ask the state to build roads, it has to be able to take property at gunpoint.  It's the nature of state provision.  If you don't want violence, don't choose the state.

3.  Twitter obits for Larry Hagman.

4.  Hector "Macho" Camacho died.

5.  Surprisingly honest whining from Gallup.  We all know that pollsters need to be able to lie and say the race is too close to call.  It's good for pollsters, 'cause they get paid.  And, it's good for democracy, because the lie increases turnout.  When rat bastards like Nate Silver break the gentleman's agreement and actually tell the truth, it's bad for business and bad for the country.  In short, analysts who tell the truth are "overfishing the commons," and need to be stopped.  Wow. Just...wow.

6.  Paul Cantor on the Elizabethan surveillance state.

7.  Peter Suderman's "17 Theses" on WalMart critics, storified by @lachlan .  Me gusta ...

Nod to Angry Alex, Chris A, and the EYM

1 comment:

Tom said...

They are called "nail houses" because they "refuse to be hammered down"? !! Bad analogy. Stubborn nails don't refuse; they either break or bend over and flatten out.

The key to the mess is contained in TFA: "too little compensation". It's true in USA, also. Too bad the Fifth writers didn't foresee how lightly courts could interpret "without just compensation." I would have written "without total and complete compensation for all harm that issues."