Apparently, disposable cellphones are the new color TVs. K-Lo, and a lot of other people, are all worked up over the fact that one of the guys in line at a soup kitchen where Michelle Obama was volunteering the other day was shown in news photos holding a cellphone. Where Do You Send the Bill? Ameri...

I keep wondering what the deal is with Megan McArdle. A more or less self-taught libertarian economics blogger who turned that into some big-league writing gigs, she shows much more facility with the technical aspects of the issues she discusses than most bloggers, which still leaves a lot of room f...

Andrew Sullivan nails it - as clearly, succinctly, and fearlessly as it can be said. The GOP Has Declared War On Obama This much is now clear. Their clear and open intent is to do all they can, however they can, to sabotage the new administration (and the economy to boot). They want failure. Even no...

A few states are providing a very cheap and necessary service to the disabled and the poor who need it and don’t have it. The thought of anyone’s life being made better, of course, has set the wingers into a predictable panic. “Hell in a Handbasket” is “staggered”...

The Wall Street Journal and the Cato Institute continue their unremitting self-parody with today’s clueless editorial touting . . . (yes, get ready for it) . . . Ayn Rand’s turgid, melodramatic novel Atlas Shrugged. Proving that Cato really is peopled exclusively with surly 15-year-old p...

The Wall Street Journal has yet more bright ideas for solving the auto industry’s problems. For the good of the workers, of course. In the continuing battle over Detroit, UAW chief Ron Gettelfinger doesn’t seem to get the picture. Let’s help him. Uh-oh. If the WSJ editorial page w...

I’m sitting here Googling about, too tired to sleep, too bored to do anything productive. I notice a headline regarding how the jackass RNC Chair keeps issuing press releases demanding that Obama report to a press conference to answer all his questions about Blagojevich and whatever else he ca...

William Kristol manufactures a false equivalency in order to tell the tale of the automakers’ bailout the way he prefers to see it. As Warren Brown, who writes about cars for The Washington Post, recently put it, “There is a feeling in this country — apparent in the often condescending, di...

OK, so Amazon.com offers these “Daily Deals”, right? They pick some item, discount it, and sell a certain number of that item on a given day at the discounted price, until they run out. Recently they offered a deal on an item that, by coincidence, I had purchased not long before at the r...

This is an excellent post on how the financial incentives of our intellectual property regime are drying up new medicine research and production: The report then critiqued the drug industry’s corporate culture, framed by the demands of Wall Street. The financial incentives formed by the stock mark...