Eating Out And the Nanny State Mindset

This morning, James Joyner speaks to… and quotes… a Ezra Klien article:

Since obesity has somehow become our unofficial theme this morning, I’d be remiss not to mention Ezra Klein‘s observations about trying to eat healthy at Cheesecake

Billy Beck:

Ed Rasimus minutes:

“But, my point…(drum roll, please)…’devolution.’

I don’t equate it as Smith does with societal reversion or decline. The classic definition in political science of devolution is one of a reversal of the 20th

As a result of having the ability to carry several hundred books in my ‘smart phone”… a Palm Treo, I now find myself catching up with a number of the classics, mostly because they were the easiest to obtain in

Twenty close of last year, the President Bush told us we are going to start looking seriously at offshore drilling, thus increasing supply,  as a way of bringing down oil prices.  Based solely on that move, worldwide oil prices went

James Joyner this morning :

In what has to be the oddest Peggy Noonan column ever, she extrapolates from a single story of a Michigan family that decided to give up some modern luxuries to engage in subsistence farming

Overheard someone just now asking why there’s never been any movie made about Whittaker Chambers.

It’s an interesting question, and the answers  would be very revealing of the state of play with socialism in this country even up to today.

I said in last night’s Ramble:

But why is it lost? Because until that moment, those kids had never heard of it, had never been taught about it, until the scene Robinson describes to us. I’m not making accusations

From the Palm Treo, in the field:

I’m finding blogging from my Treo to be a liberating and yet frustrating experience.

One of the problems is a lack of capacity for cutting and pasting URL’s in the Native web app…

Christopher Buckley writes today:

It’s tricky, trying to channel your father’s ghost. Hamlet tried it. I think I won’t. But I miss WFB’s takes on—everything that’s going on. Often, I’d find myself flailing aimlessly or circularly about some issue, trying

Heather MacDonald got an awful lot of traffic around blogdom for her anti-religious rant:

Will Bill O’Reilly or anyone else who saw the hand of God in the safe landing of US Airways Flight 1549 this January please explain

I was on the road while most of the events with the Bird-strike plane landing in the Hudson were going on, and by the time I got home, there wasn’t much to write about.  So, I didn’t. Everyone else seemed

It appears to me , that this business with Bernie Madoff may in fact when a LOT deeper then one scam artist, however talented he may have been at it, or how hated he now supposedly is. When the press

This morning’s Washington Post tells us far more than it intends:

As a top official at the White House in 1996, Richard A. Clarke was looking for an ally after concluding that the CIA and FBI needed an additional $1

By way of  Glenn Reynolds I note an interesting article in the DC Examiner, today:

It appears that among the many celebrity victims of Wall Street fraudster Bernie Madoff is former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer resigned earlier

An interesting story yesterday, on the AP wires:

Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.