LDAHL
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Funny you should say that. My brother-in-law is moving from So Cal to Colorado Springs in a couple of months. He says it’s getting too difficult for...

You’re probably right. I wish I had held on to some of my old lunch boxes and comic books. And my Microsoft stock. And my Pinto. Maybe someday the...

I agree on both counts. I wouldn’t want any portion of my life determined by a committee of later day hippies seeking affiliation and status. I...

From absolute rulers to overbred show dogs over the course of a few centuries. I do like some of the things Philip said over the years. When some...

Even if I had a little space to retreat to, I think I would have a problem living in the equivalent of the office break room. It probably doesn’t...

There’s nothing preventing people from creating communal living situations if they want to; except perhaps zoning in some areas. For the most part...

The accusation of 4,924 additional deaths seems oddly specific. Nor does the third most populous state having the third highest death count seem all...

I see that article was posted nearly a year ago. I suspect if they’re looking to create a red state Cuomo they’re going to need to be a little more...

I agree that there are many factors at work, but when I see the President accuse Texas of “Neanderthal thinking” and the recent botched 60 Minutes...

Authoritarian envy isn’t all that rare in the arena of opinion. I remember Tom Friedman famously wishing to be “China for a day” to impose the...

People keep pushing that scolding narrative, but are those states substantially worse off in real-world numbers than the ones who imposed more...

When I consider the “real change” some wish to impose, I thank my primitive sky god and our slave-owning founders for the precious gift of gridlock.

I think these things make more sense if we ask whose problems they are aimed at. If I am a president looking for ways to pander to my relatively...

The late philosopher Roger Scruton owned a small farm. He named one of his pigs Singer.

I personally have a couple of problems with Singer. Perhaps most fundamentally, he never really seems to make the argument that justifies his premise...

I’ve been to some hot places, but nowhere as hot as Gila Bend. Used to visit a friend there from time to time, and learned a new appreciation for the...

Let’s do the Trolley Problem next. Or Peter Singer’s drowning child.

I’ve seen this sort of thing happen as well. One thing I’ve learned is that when someone starts babbling about “stakeholders” you can expect some...

That was Marx’s criticism of Proudhon, and I always thought he was pretty lefty. Although I do agree with you that there are plenty of people on the...

People have been batting around the “Property is theft” thing since Proudhon. The people on the left criticized it on the basis that there is no such...

I see Vermont will be prioritizing BIPOC people. The argument being they are at greater risk than their paler neighbors. And there are more brown...

It helps somewhat to have a kid who’s a better, braver, smarter person than you are.

You might say refusal to be vaccinated constitutes volunteering to be a sort of Petri dish.

There are reasonable precautions and there are silly ones. I think your murderer example falls in the silly category. As to the unvaccinated only...

I hear it’s free now. Much to the disappointment of vendors who were doing very well selling items to all the stranded crews.

And at other’s people’s risk as well? Should not employers and public or private facilities be able to exclude people unwilling to take rudimentary...

It’s a tightrope you have to walk. Obviously you want to put off irreversible decisions as long as possible. I don’t doubt there is an element of a...

Yes. She explained it’s not a “crisis”, it’s a “circumstance”.

We have been dealing with this issue with our daughter for a number of years now. There are many challenges, frustrations and painful choices...

So vaccine envy is a thing now? I see one of the children at “Slate” wrote a piece about those disgusting baby boomers who ruined everything getting...

Who was it who said a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can lace up its boots?

Afterlife was so good it prompted me to binge Extras too.

I think there are literally millions of little disinformation guys out there. So many people looking to shoehorn genuine or imaginary incidents into...

Been watching “Community”, which I never saw in its original run. John Oliver used to be funny. Who knew?

If the federal government dictated to the states how ballots should be handled, that wouldn’t eliminate questions. It would only make the questions...

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” - Marcus Aurelius “Meditations”

They are already regulated by the states. I don’t see much advantage in an all-powerful central government oozing out of its constitutionally...

I understand that Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Delaware are the only three states using the sequential numbering system. A small example of how...

Looking at the 2019 data from Statista, it looks like about 1,600 Americans emigrated to Norway, while about 1,000 Norwegians emigrated to the US. ...

People held Amazon and Google for many years for the same reason. People just say “speculator” because they think it sounds more sinister and...

Whenever people start referring to investors as speculators, you can be sure some creative taxes are coming.

This will always be a platitude-heavy area of debate. We can wax eloquent about human suffering or our immigrant ancestors, but that does nothing to...

Good for you Rob. You engaged in beverage container arbitrage, and used the proceeds for capital formation. This country needs people like you. ...

What kind of steps? As long as the relevant taxes are paid and local laws observed, whose business is it except the owners?

There hasn’t been much construction of new housing stock in the past year, the price of a lot of building materials is none the less up. I think Bae...

I thought “coppice” was the verb for cutting down to the roots, and “copse” was the noun for the grove maintained for that purpose.

I’ve often thought we’d do well to adopt something like Canada’s policy model. They do a seem to do a nice job of balancing self-interest,...

I can remember being lectured that the United States should not be the world’s policeman. I’m not sure we have the capacity to be the world’s social...

I was involved in a similar situation in a well-to-do but not super rich suburb of Milwaukee. The town government encouraged us and offered...

I think that’s very true, at least in my corner of the Midwest. There are so many opportunities to rehab old housing stock or do fill-in projects in...

I think you’re right, although I doubt Trumpism without Trump has much of a long term future.

I think that over the years the legislative branch has been yielding authority to the executive and (to a somewhat lesser degree) the judicial...

Our elected officials are so bitterly divided because we are bitterly divided. I don’t see a sizable majority crying out for more laws and demanding...

Or the “Force People into Unions so they can Support the Democratic Party Act”. I think they just shortened it to the “PRO Act” in the current...

I look forward to finding out, but I’m in no particular hurry.

Yeah. They could use that new thing. What was it? Blockhead technology?

The other fellow is listening pretty attentively too.

That’s because you are honest. As an old Chicago kid, I have the benefit of being able to spot a bribe when I see one.

CNN seems to be eagerly anticipating a surge of infections. They seem aggrieved that states like Florida have come through as well or better than...