New version of Movable Type has been installed. Thanks Matt! Comments are down until the bugs are worked out.
All in all it's a good move, and long overdue.
February 2009 Archives
Tomorrow evening you can meet several of your favorite Colorado bloggers at Rocky Mountain Blogger Bash MMIX.1 which will be held at the Wynkoop downtown. I will be there, too.
Ari Armstrong, who has already demonstrated how easy it is to eat nutritiously on a food stamp budget, will try it again.
He's responding to some nonsense on CNN about how difficult it is to eat well on a food stamp budget. This time Ari's going low carb.
What is it about this particular myth that's so hard to kill? My monthly grocery bill is often less than a food stamp allotment. I'm careful with my grocery shopping but not particularly miserly.
I'm generally against personal ethics systems substituting themselves for public law - that's a big part of libertarianism. I have to chuckle when I read this from James Taranto:
If a certain sort of conservative tends to be moralistic about sex, liberals tend to be moralistic about money. That makes Tom Daschle the equivalent of a televangelist caught in a sex scandal.
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Daschle, who in 1998 said, "Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter" (hat tip: National Review Online), did not pay all the taxes he owed. In particular, he did not pay taxes on the use of the limo, saying he regarded it as merely a "generous offer from a friend."He finally coughed up the money last month, after Obama nominated him. An earlier story on the Post Web site puts the sum in question at $101,943, which covered three years. That's just the tax (plus interest) on his limo, suggesting that its actual value was somewhere on the order of $100,000 a year. In 2007, the median income for a South Dakota family of four was $66,451.
That's quite a good take on it. The soft socialist left tries to impose their personal moral system into our public policy via taxation and redistribution. Daschle failed morally by that measure.
