Archive for July, 2006

Yet another loophole

11 July 2006

I think Canadians are going to be pissed when drugs they’re able to get now disappear
from the Canadian market
. Another possibility is that the prices will go up, which
will either lead to tax hikes or service cuts elsewhere. Regardless, the free market
wins (in as much as the highly regulated pharmacological industry is a free market).

Newsflash

11 July 2006

Unchecked,
tobacco could kill 1 billion in this century

How about “if you’re over 20 years old and reading this, you will almost certainly
be dead this century” You have to go some way. My way? Steaks, I hope.

I could dig a little more and see who is seeding thiscrapinto
the press
, but I don’t care.

As a non-smoker, I wish you wouldn’t smoke around me. However, I find laws to enforce
this asinine. I vote with my feet - I leave places when the smell of smoke is too
much. Too bad people like Scoble won’t do the same thing.

well, some variety

10 July 2006

They had a strong aversion to censorship and infused their bookshelves with variety.

spice of life and all that.

“The Republicans, I don’t know how many there were in Berkeley, but they would not
be coming here,” Pat Cody, 82, said Sunday.

Oh, that kind of variety.

A
conclusion for Cody’s

Set-asides endanger your life

9 July 2006

This guy sold inferior concrete for public works projects and got away with it because, well, he’s a “minority”. As much a minority as a Latino man in California can be.