Economist Tyler Cowen posted on his own blog a link to his own piece in Slate where he suggests the key to rebuilding New Orleans is to recognize that the land in the city is still valuable, just less so than before, and to legalize shantytowns. I’m with the commenter who thought this must be his own economist version of Swift’s A Modest Proposal. I mean, yes, reggae and great Brazilian music may have come from slums and shantys, but then, a lot of great music has come from non-shantys. The notion that it’s a perfect place for Caribbean and …
Tag: politics
Adam’s Worried. As Am I.
Adam at A Violently Executed Blog admits he’s worried and that all that bluster about Iran might not just be bluster. It scares me, too. I mean, if they invade Iran, they’ll need troops. Can’t take them from Iraq. Where will they get them? No, no, please don’t say Korea. Because on the other side of the DMZ, Evil Mr. Kim is just waiting to swoop down and slaughter all of what he’d certainly see as pampered, soft, weak couch potatoes here in the South.
Why not indeed?
Katolik Shinja asks why the Church doesn’t just go ahead and excommunicate all Pro-Abortionists from its ranks like it did with Segregationists. Here’s my thinking: My suspicion is that the population of the North American and European Church — or pretty much the Church in any developed country — would diminish to a small portion of its current size. I suspect that’s why this would never happen. Of course, that, and the fact that Segregationism was a social practice, thus more easily detected and repudiated; abortion, as a medical procedure, is performed in isolation, and is not so easily detectable. …
Writing Science Fiction During the Third World War
The sorta-dead The Infinite Matrix has Eleanor Arnason’s great speech/essay on the subject. Worth a read, and look around there while you’re there.
Angry Asian-Americans Against Adidas
Well, 40 of them. More on the Ray Fong adicolor shoe hullaballoo. Perhaps Adidas screwed up. But the artist whose tag they used is Asian himself! (Well, half-Asian, as they point out, but that’s more than enough for him to identify. And if they hadn’t noticed, the Angry Asian Man they cited, he’s annoyed about EVERYTHING.)