tfl: The Flatiron Life

What would be your 30 day plan to greater freedom in America? Lew Rockwell published his plan today.

The Everyday Economist’s favorite day is

DAY FOUR: The minimum wage is reduced to zero, creating jobs for ex-federal bureaucrats at their market wage.

I think that is my favorite too. My second favorite is

DAY TWENTY: All federal monuments are sold, in some cases to non-profit groups based on the Mt. Vernon Ladies Association, which owns and runs George Washington’s home. The VFW buys the Vietnam memorial. There is much bidding for the Jefferson and Washington monuments. Nobody wants FDR’s, so it’s torn down and the land sold to a farmer. (With the federal government cut back to its constitutional size, much of Washington reverts to productive uses like agriculture, as in late 18th century.)

Terrorists are terrible and trying to terrorize you! safenow.gov gives you some excellent advice. The most important is how to stop radiation.

Be careful the next time to cross the border. If you have more than $10,000 the DEA just assumes it is drug money and takes it. The Mises Economics Blog points out that this is exactly what happened to Anastasio Prieto in El Paso. He does not keep his savings in banks but keeps it with him as cash. My values may not line up with his on how to save my money, but this sure as heck is not illegal. With the most recent sub-prime/banking trouble, more people might consider this a smart strategy.

Thankfully the ACLU suing on his behalf to get his money back and stop this procedure. “The government took Mr. Prieto’s money as surely as if he had been robbed on a street corner at night,” ACLU’s New Mexico executive director, Peter Simonson said. “In fact, being robbed might have been better. At least then the police would have treated him as the victim of a crime instead of as a perpetrator.”

Ever since Megan McArdle moved her blog over to The Atlantic, she’s been hell bent on making me a vegetarian. As Jacob can attest, I largely continue to eat meat due to a degree of compartmentalization that I would not allow for other lifestyle choices. I comfort myself by remembering that humans are omnivores; meat provides protein; it is good; and mostly, I’ve always (asside from a few seasons of Lent and a period of nearly lunatic food aversion) eaten it. But A) I’m not sure I’m truly convinced that meat per se is all that fundamental to my diet and B) Can I really justify supporting a practice that hits me at a gut level as just wrong because the result tastes good?

Dammit all for making me go and think about it! The jury is out so long as I can excuse myself with: “I am pregnant, so this is a bad time to alter my eating habits.”

We are alive! Shout it from the mountain top. The hurricane that swept through today did no harm to us.

Reports of uprooted trees and strong winds forced all of our parents to call us and check up. This includes my father!

Again, we are alive!

(Note: We know full well when a tornado is spotted in the same state as Jonah in 2034, we will be on the hypernet immediately to make sure he is ok.)

Did you make an overt choice of where you live?
Did you just stay were you were?
Did someone else make the choice and you followed them?

Answer in the comments. I make no judgments of others values; everyone is entitled to their choices. I am quite curious. We visit friends and family quite often and moving to the visited locale is often a topic of discussion.

I have a pretty good idea why I live where I do. Before I say why, you need to tell me why you live where you live.

For all of you worried about the broken style from the last two days, the style has been fixed. (note: No one noticed, so I question if anyone is actually reading).

The technical details are that Wordpress tries to do some automagical formatting to posts. in this case newlines were added at the end of each close tag and cause Firefox to whack out (but I assume in a W3C compliant way ).

A few weeks ago Joscelynn turned my on to the worlds only stand-up economist with this video.

Today Prof. Mankiw points to the newest video of Yoram Bauman.

Christina send these videos along.

This game show is absurd, but it still takes a lot more talent and strategy than ‘Deal or No Deal.’

Clearly not you and me, if Walter Williams is calling those doing the protecting ‘Deadly Environmentalists‘