I’m writing up a piece on the recent UAW-Big 3 negotiations. Here’s just some of the benefits grabbed by the UAW : – wig coverage (due to hair loss from medical treatment)- massages- helicopter ambulatory service- car vouchers- a “floating” holiday- free computers- discounted Internet service Benefits they didn’t come out with, but tried: – [...]

Tech Central Station runs a chilling column by warmonger Lee Harris. The fault of neo-Carterism was in not building, feeding, and propping up authoritarian regimes around the world. Forget noeconservatism, and forget the neo-Wilsonianism I recently wrote on, but let’s look at Strong-manism. Strong-manism [my term], says Tech Central’s Lee Harris, is “A strong man, [...]

Good question. The cops in the suburban Detroit area have nothing better to do (as in elsewhere). A local cyclist, with one of the local bike clubs, was arrested on Tuesday because he changed his shorts in his car. We all do this: post-riding, most of us change from our bulky, padded cycling shorts into [...]

A colleague sent me a newspaper story that focuses on a former CPA-Consulting firm we both worked for, one of the largest and most respected firms of its kind in the country (It’s in the ‘Big Ten’, and in the Fortune Magazine’s Top 100 Companies to Work For every year, usually in the Top 10 [...]

Merchandise ID’ing is making people mad, as Claire Wolfe attests to. Says Claire (on her blog): URGENT! CAN YOU HELP CASPIAN HELP PRIVACY AND GUN RIGHTS? On Sept 15-17 the villains of the Auto-ID Center are officially launching their EPC (radio-frequency ID chip) network at a Chicago convention. CASPIAN will be conducting both a physical [...]

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The New Republic‘s Greg Easterbrook does a job on the insufferable, blackmailing Chief Moose, a guy whose claim to fame came via failure in the DC sniper case. It seems the guy has been trouble on more than one occasion, including when he was in Portland.

Alex Tabarrok on names. Of course people discriminate in terms of names on resumes. And it’s not just between black and white, but more likely, between male and female. Of course they discriminate when they see the person in front of them. So? Why is it so evil to discriminate for or against certain attributes [...]

From the LA Times: “For the last 12 years, Balfour and his custom-made vacuum have rumbled across the West, sucking up prairie dogs like so much lint from a sprawling shag carpet.” Ouch. Here’s a photo I took of prairie dogs:

Virginia Postrel is obsessed with her book ranking on Amazon, a heroic feature from a heroic company. A nice column on online book sales.