Thursday

Miscellany

If it's possible to combine smugness with evil, it's accomplished by Planned Parenthood. I've noticed the juxtaposition other times, but the most-recent video ad that congratulates President Obama on smacking down the Catholic Church wins the cake walk. You can read about it and watch the video here.

Great quote from page 63 of John Mueller's Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery: "From the perspective of the intellectual, then, people in business may appear small-minded, crass, menial, and even stupid ”“ though typically they will understand their business in greater depth and finer nuance than the average intellectual will ever understand anything." Seen at Cafe Hayek.

Also at Cafe Hayek: Super Pork. Legislators who take pork-barrel spending to incredible levels. If anyone can read this and still hold a modicum of faith in the federal government, he's gullible or possessed of super-human wisdom and virtue that sees past, through, and over the obvious.

If drunk driving is against the law, then talking on the cell phone should be illegal, too. Link.