really happy for the same price as it takes to replace your shoelaces?" people associated with Shelter Inc. wrote in a letter to the paper. "We insist that this placemat be immediately rescinded and a formal apology be issued."
So A Beautiful Mind won a bunch of awards. It sounds like they didn't dare ignore it.
Nick Gillespie at Reason Online wonders whether Randy Cohen, who writes the "Ethicist" column for The New York Times Magazine, is willfully mistaken or simply delusional.
Another sunrise, another sunset, more dreams turn into ashes.
Good one, Suman.
I'm doing some behind the scenes renovations on the blog this morning, so if something in my Favorites list, or links elsewhere throughout this site are rickety, please let me know.
Saturday, March 23, 2002- - -
Looks like I'm not the only one with cabin fever. Suman Palit is going fishing.
Here's one good reason to support a World Tax: Andrew Hofer says he'll buy some guns and move out west if the idea gets traction.
Looks like the InstaPundit is out playing golf with his clone this morning..
Some days nothing in the news particularly trips my trigger and then there are days like today.
I loved this article. The guy should argue that by operating a neighborhood strip club he's saving the neighbors from driving drunk on their way back from the bad side of town.
One of my occasional clients is dismissing Arthur Andersen.
The obvious answer to this sort of thing is to whack idiots who leave guns lying around where 3-year-olds can get their hands on them, and those who leave 3-year-olds unsupervised in any event. Unfortunately, what we'll probably see is a push to outlaw .25 caliber handguns.
It's doubly cynical of me, but I should point out that according to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 'unintentional injuries' was the leading cause of death for children aged 1-4 in the United States during 1999. A total of 1898 children aged 1-4, of both sexes and all races, died from unintentional injuries of all kinds during that year. Of these, 564 deaths were motor vehicle related, 490 were from drowning, and 12 were firearm related. All of these deaths are surely tragic, most of them could have been prevented, but we only hear about the last 12.
The low cost of living is one of the advantages of Wyoming. One can live fairly well here on the proceeds from a modest clientele. Perhaps the low cost of living is what makes the area attractive for aspiring artists as well. Or maybe it's something in the water. But there are an amazing number of good, if sometimes undiscovered artists in all media who live here at least part of the year. Sculptors and painters, crafters of furniture and firearms, and screeds on freedom. Musicians and entertainers of all sorts who rely on an audience are less common, but frequently hide out here when they're not on the road.
Maybe it is the water.
Friday, March 22, 2002- - -
A friend of mine has a somewhat unusual hobby. He's a farmer by day, sugar beets, barley, silage and feed corn, and Sunday afternoons he's a team roper. The gentleman's rodeo sport. Riding rough stock is for the teenagers - baby boomers don't bounce well any more. But team roping is a finesse game: two men rope a steer, one on the head to hold the animal and a 'heeler' who ropes a hind foot to throw the critter. This is a more necessary skill than one might think: How else would you vaccinate a cranky old range cow? It's also a sport.
They practice in an arena south of town, Sunday afternoons. It's not a cheap sport, you bring your own steer. Not to mention your horse and tack. Eventually the steer will learn that it doesn't like to be tripped and laid on its side. It starts to dodge the ropes. That takes all the fun out of it and you need a replacement steer. The one who's wised up gets fattened up, leading to the obvious conclusion: Sometimes it doesn't pay to get too smart.
I've got to start doing a little map reconnaissance for the turkey trip. I'd hoped to draw here in the Bighorn Basin, where I know the landowners and the lay of the land, but such was n