Monday

But He Kept His Distance from Obama Girl?

So Obama makes it a triumvirate of sex: Kennedy, Clinton, and Obama. It's just the National Enquirer, of course, but the story is out there. It'll be fun, if nothing else. I haven't heard a good cigar joke in ten years. * * * * * The always-brilliant Thomas Sowell says many slave owners didn't have as much power over their slaves as the Washington Party has over us: "The current leadership in Washington operates as if they can just set arbitrary goals, whether 'affordable housing' or 'universal health care' or anything else – and not concern themselves with the repercussions – since they have the power to simply force individuals, businesses, doctors or anyone else to knuckle under and follow their dictates. Friedrich Hayek called this mindset 'the road to serfdom.' * * * * * I recently got his classic A Conflict of Visions off the shelf and started re-reading parts in connection with a new literary project. It's great stuff. * * * * * Movie Gallery is closing all its stores. Bummer. We have one in my micropolitan area. It's disappointing to see it go, but it was inevitable. On-Demand Digital, Netflix, and those Red Boxes are unrelenting competition. Funny line from Zero Hedge in connection with the story: "bankruptcies still do occur in the US, but the business must be really atrocious plus have no unionized workers anywhere within 50 miles of its operations."