Last Week's Top 5 Hit & Run Posts
Here's what you were reading last week at Hit & Run:
'I'm Not Going to Be Interrogated As a Pre-Condition to Re-Entering My Own Country,' by Jacob Sullum (9/8)
Krugman, the Doctor: I Meant to Say It's Good We're Turning Into Japan II, It's Real Good, by Tim Cavanaugh (9/10)
Hawaii BMI: A Look Back, by Tim Cavanaugh (9/10)
Oh, For a Life of Government-Subsidized Leisure, by Peter Suderman (9/8)
TSA Sows Fear of Photographers, by Radley Balko (9/7)
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You guys should prepare a top 10 articles about Krugman, just so I can use it as an emetic when the need arises.
Threadjack:
This is kinda neat:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39…..d_gadgets/
Don’t take this the wrong way, but that is without a doubt one of the dumbest ideas I have ever seen.
What a perfect example of the inability of petty government officials to consider unintended consequences!
News flash, geniuses – the inevitable effect of deployment of this “trick” is that drivers will begin to believe that the real kid they see in the street is just an optical illusion.
OMG! THEY FLATTENED THAT LITTLE GIRL PLAYING BALL IN THE STREET!
It’s ignorant for MSNBC to show the picture of the poor little girl after she got the Rachel Corrie treatment from what I assume was a steamroller. Tasteless.
The Weekly Double!
Harrisburg, PA to be bailed out (in the short-term, anyway) with state money. Sure, Harrisburg could declare BK and force bondholders to take a haircut but then PA governor Ed Rendell couldn’t stick Harrisburg taxpayers with a $500,000 loan to hire Chicago-based financial consultant Scott Balice Strategies.
Hilarious.