Glenn Reynolds on Afghani terrorists and economics:
While I’m (sort of) on this topic, why doesn’t the United States address the Afghan opium trade by just buying the stuff up? Presumably, farmers would be just as happy to sell their poppies to us, and that would keep them off the market, as well as depriving bad guys of a revenue source. Am I missing something here?
Geniuses come in all shapes and sizes.
Via Matthew Barganier.
Speaking of oddities (and creating more room for my picture), here is an entertaining interview with IP attorney Stephan Kinsella who just finished work on this project:
PH: Let me try another approach. You must have a pretty thick skin to run as a third party in Texas. How extensively and aggressively did you campaign? Did you do any live debates or just the normal sign-in-the-yard kind of stuff?
SK: I think I spent 2 cents total, for the paper used to fax something to the election commission. As for the extent of my campaigning, when friends and colleagues told me they would vote for me, I did my best to refrain from uttering my favorite aphorism, “Don’t vote. It only encourages them.” I’m starting to think I’m not cut out for politickin’.
NCAA College Football kicked off today with a brawl between The Fightin’ Texas Aggies and the Utah Utes. Early on there were a number of communication errors between the players and coaches for the Aggies, as both the offensive and defensive units thought it was yet another practice skirmish. Guess who got pussywhooped?
Despite the fact that I would be one of the smallest players on the team (5′8″, 175 lbs.) I’m fairly confident that I would be able to pull my own weight as a walk on. I am certain that I could jump off-sides with the finesse of a seasoned veteran. Catching a ball? No problemo, I’ll be sure to get wide open, away from any opponent and drop the perfect spiral you throw at my numbers — at least three times per quarter. I can even scramble out of the pocket and get sacked instead of grounding the ball or running forward or tossing the option or bouncing it off a referee. Better yet, I could simply hand the ball to the meanest looking Mormon (the ones with the mohawks) and thank the 12th Man for their unflinching support.
Texas A&M has the 2nd largest student body in the country yet the quality of players can be summed up with a police rap sheet: we have had more football players arrested in the past year than we have won football games in the last two seasons combined (6-6, 4-8). Granted we have a new coach which changed up a number of key fundamental playing styles (i.e. defensive positioning) but with the amount of resources and support behind the football program, one would think that we could muster up a little bit more class (especially the off-season antics).
In the end, the entire game smacked of a bad N-Gage ad: This is where they schooled me — here is where I became a man.
