Do the TSA Pokey Pokey

"The Transportation Security Administration - with a little help from Reason.tv and international web sensation Remy - have produced an instructional video outlining proper airport screening measures. "

Reason.tv Replay: Remy-Do the TSA Pokey Pokey - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Wealth Creation Explained in 32 Seconds

Fight of the Century: Keynes vs Hayek Round Two

Obamacare

P. J. O'Rourke: Irish Setter Dad

"But being a male parent with a typical dad-like involvement in my children’s lives​—​I know all of their names​—​I thought Battle Hymn was great. That is, I thought it made me look great."

Irish Setter Dad | The Weekly Standard

Green Energy Technologies

Capitalism May Have Ended Life on Mars

"I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet,' Chavez said in speech to mark World Water Day."

Chavez says capitalism may have ended life on Mars - Yahoo! Finance

"All Business Data is Intentionally Misleading

All too often, we demand an accuracy from accounting that it does not possess.

Numbers in business are not like numbers in the hard sciences. Accounting is more like a language than the measurement of a physical constant, and like all languages, words and rules change over time.

This comic strip by Scott Adams humorously captures the idea. Imagine Wally saying "All language is intentionally misleading" and he would sound less like an office slacker and more like Umberto Eco.

The Daily Show and the Happy Meal

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Holiday Message from the TSA

Lonely this holiday season? Find an intimate friend at the TSA.



Via SNL, click here.

Con Air

Just Don't Say No, Sometimes

Life is too short to say no to every cheeseburger you meet, even if your name is Michelle Obama.

Markets Are Like Wives

Markets are like wives. They will tell you what to do, but you won't always like what you hear.

The Conversation by Henri Matisse, 1908-1912. Source: State Hermitage Museum

The Free Dictionary

Organized Crime noun [awr-guh-nahyzd krahym]

1. Interstate theft that occurs within a centrally controlled formal structure.

2. The people and the groups involved in such criminal activities; e.g., the Mafia in Sicily and the Legislature in the United States.

Stopping Terror Costs Jobs!

From The Onion, evidence that some satire never goes out of style:

BREAKING: Terror Attack Failure Costs Detroit 10,000 Construction Jobs10:38 AM Jan 5th from TweetDeck

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Why I Drive

1. Jonah Goldberg writes accurately of air travel outside of first class...

"The petty humiliations, the routine deceptions from airline employees desperate to rid themselves of troublesome travelers (“Oh, they can definitely help you at the gate!”), the stress-position seats, the ever-changing rules for what can and cannot be in your carry-on, being charged for food that the Red Cross would condemn if it were served at Gitmo: Air travel is the most expensive unpleasant experience in everyday life outside the realm of words ending in -oscopy."

2. While the TSA adds more frustration than security...



3. Finally, once glamorous air travel has become a bus system with wings.

Not entirely a business, not entirely an organ of the state, not profitable, not credit-worthy, not reliable, not customer friendly, not consistent, rewarding to run but not to invest in, the airline industry is everything you would expect from an economic arrangement that encourages the same kind of moral behavior you find on French farms and in dictatorships receiving large amounts of foreign aid.

Hide the Decline

What does an ambitious climatologist do when the data doesn't cooperate with his thesis of anthropogenic global warming?

A Thanksgiving Prayer

"Dear Global Economy,

We thank thee for thy economies of scale, thy professional specialization, and thy international networks of trade under Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage, without which we would all starve to death while trying to assemble the ingredients for such a dinner as this.

Amen."

From Overcoming Bias.

The Government Cable "Option"

Help for the Overpaid