inked yesterday, has been picked up by the Boston Globe of all places. (Via the InstaPundit.)
That just gladdens the cockles of my heart. Perhaps things are changing.
Update: I've read the Boston Globe article and it looks like they printed it straight up as it appeared in Reason Online. The Globe article also notes that Ms. Young is a regular contributor to the Globe. How interesting.
Yes! This is an area of great promise for the developing internet. To provide an education beyond that offered by our education establishment. Or despite it as the case may be.
I see that Mrs. Sese-Seko is getting desperate. Would someone please take her $30 Million so she'll quit spamming me? Or at least get a more original scam going?
Oh Oh. Must have been something I said. I see I've been summarily purged from the up-front favorites at Samizdata. I'd have thought they'd put me in their "Havens of fluorescent idiocy" category from the start, so I guess I shouldn't complain.
Actually, I suspect that their favorites list was becoming terribly unwieldy, so I'll forgive them - someday.
Today's Christian Science Monitor has a good outline of the Cobell v. Norton Indian Trust case, with a brief bio of Elouise Cobell.
Have you ever wondered what the IRS would do to you if your accounting was on par with that of the Department of the Interior? What if you just refused to keep records on Millions of dollars in income? They'd be on you like spots on an Appaloosa.
Now consider this: The DOI manages the mineral estate of enormous tracts of land out here in the 'empty quarter.' Only a small portion of those holdings are held in trust for the Indianz and the proceeds from the Indian Trusts supposedly amount to roughly $½ Billion per year. The vast majority of the mineral estate is held in trust for all of us. With that much cash flying around and DOI accounting procedures being what they are, the potential for corruption is clearly enormous.
Why do you suppose that the DOI is so very reluctant to provide an accounting?
Where does the money go?
Sylvia Machamer weighs in on the Fightin' Whities in a letter to the Denver Post. Says she: "Even in California, we know of Eaton High's offensive mascot. What a great idea the American-Indian students at the University of Northern Colorado had. I am so proud of those young men."
Even in California.. I think that pretty well sums it up.
Quick Sylvia: Where is Eaton? What's their major industry? Ok, you can look at a map..
The Denver Post Doofus of the Month Award goes to the Hurst, Texas, public schools for expelling a 16-year-old honor student after a bread knife was found in the back of his pickup truck. The knife apparently fell from a box of household goods that had belonged to his grandmother, when he hauled it to Goodwill. "This is a serious offense," a school official told the boy.
Another good deed well punished by the morons at Zero Tolerance, Inc.
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Anthony Woodlief asks why bathroom doors are exempt from the 'open outward' fire codes. This may be the last triumph of common sense over bureaucracy - when was the last time you were in a hurry to get out of the bathroom?
This is my rifle. This is my gun. This is funny and probably too close to truth. Via just about everybody, but I finally got around to reading it.
Via Sand in the Gears comes a pointed quote from Frederic Bastiat's book, The Law. "It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder .. it erases from everyone's conscience the distinction between justice and injustice."
There's got to be a better way than these class action suits where the plaintiffs get discount coupons and their attorneys pocket millions. Makes you wonder whose interests were being represented..
Hmm. I never did hear back from the folks at Bravenet when I signed up for their hit counter. I'd thought their site was behaving oddly. I guess I'll give it another try - if only I could get a connection to my ISP..
Update: Well, dummy, that's because you signe