From Reason: This incident unfolded in Beaverton, Oregon, on January 16, according to The Oregonian. It was about 9 a.m., and the mom needed milk and meat. She put her four-year-old in the back seat, buckled him into his booster seat, and headed to the grocery store. She made sure to park right…
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From the Portland Biz Journal here: … The plaintiffs are seeking compensatory damages “in excess of $10 million.” … The lawsuit charges that “independent lab testing” revealed that Cura’s Select Elite products “contained only 55% THC (i.e. 550 mg), despite promising they would contain 76.9% THC (i.e. 769 mg).” That…
The first one was of course Teddy – and the circumstances were remarkably similar, though the ultimate outcome was different. From Power and Responsibility, the Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt: W.H. Harbaugh (New York, 1961). Pages 113-114, posted, sadly, without permission of the author: … The campaign [in Cuba]…
into the simplistic libertarianism of my youth. Some days are harder than others. Today Nigel Jaquiss and Rachel Monahan reported in Willamette Week that the State of Oregon is losing money on its new sports lottery. How the hell do you lose money running a sports book? And if you did,…
Since I teach Econ honors students how to write these, I keep a file of good and bad examples. This is a great one. From the NYT, quoting Portland economist Robert McCullough from his report on the 2018 Camp Fire: “PG&E’s behavior was unforgivable and totally unnecessary,” said Robert McCullough,…
That is a trick question. No one could answer that question. The ’87 Caballero didn’t come with a vacuum distributor. It came with a computer controlled distributor. However, if you were to retrofit it with a vacuum advance distributor for $55 off ebay, the correct ignition timing would be 10…
From the daily roundup that UO’s news service sends out: Return of the Reefer-Crazed Killer Reason Magazine (232K Twitter followers | 3,170,033 unique visitors per month | 42,000 circulation): University of Oregon W.E. Miner Chair and associate professor of economics Benjamin Hansen provides expert commentary.
The Scottish National Health Service thinks I should stop whinging until I cough up blood: The American Lung Association thinks I should go to the doctor for an X-Ray:
Another year, another panel data observation.
And the winners are a matter of public record: At one point the Oregon Health Plan couldn’t afford to cover all low income applicants, so they had monthly lotteries. But this is new to me – Kyle Iboshi of KGW8 has the story here: … Last year, the OLCC created a…
CNN has the latest: Trump says troops on US border can use ‘lethal force’.
You can donate to HIAS, the international refugee resettlement group that the Pittsburgh terrorist despised, here.
Sometimes I wonder if politicians can really be trusted. Michael Tobin has the answer in the Eugene Weekly here.
12/23/2019: Ever since the 1973 oil embargo our country has had to suck-up to murderous potentates like Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and send our soldiers to die in endless Middle East wars to keep the imports flowing. Meanwhile, some clever and well incentivized entrepreneurs figured out how to…