Newmark's Door

Mike Munger takes on an old argument that libertarians who use government services are hypocritical and refutes if beautifully.

Matt Taibbi usefully reminds us of the hysteria that once prevailed:

. . . the vehemence of this national wig-out was breathtaking. Jail-Trumpism truly became a religion during this time. I remember walking down the corridor of our Jersey City apartment building to walk the dog, hearing Rachel Maddow’s nightly crazy-casts blasting out from behind door after door, like the Songs of Angkar filling a Cambodian village.

Ouch:

Carson made little effort to provide a balanced perspective and consistently ignored key evidence that would have contradicted her work. Thus, while the book provided a range of notable ideas, a number of Carson’s major arguments rested on what can only be described as deliberate ignorance.

Seems reasonable.

Ross Douthat in the New York Times: (May be gated depending on how many times you've visited the Times website.)

Marijuana legalization as we’ve done it so far has been a policy failure, a potential social disaster, a clear and evident mistake.

I haven't tried any of these yet, but I may. And junk snail mail is a smaller annoyance to me then all the junk phone calls we get.

Until somebody beats it, 1780 points is impressive.

I would have guessed Vegas, too, but buffets are the on the way out there.

By Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute: calm, reasonable, but scary.

Something I hadn't seen before: playing tic-tac-toe by bouncing ping pong balls onto peanut-buttered bread.