Monday, June 23, 2014

Someone in authority actually said this: DC council member on expanded townhouses

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On the subject of "pop-ups," townhouses that have been renovated to tower over their neighbors, The Washington Post quotes D.C. ...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Religious right or P.C. left? Quotes 47 and 48

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In this series of blog posts, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to read each quote and guess, before doing a Web search, whet...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Someone in authority actually said this: Baltimore police commissioner on teen curfew

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The Baltimore City Council plans to impose one of America's toughest teen curfews. Some people question how workable it is: “If adopte...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Would she be happier if the advertisements were in Newspeak?

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In Richmond, British Columbia, this is happening: A Richmond woman has renewed her call for a ban on Chinese-only signage after ads for Cre...

Self-ownership for Michael Bloomberg, but not for you

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Michael Bloomberg, regarding his failed war on soda , recently said (emphasis added), “We have a responsibility as human beings to do somet...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Elane Photography: It's time to switch talking points.

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In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's denial of certiorari in Elane Photography, the socially liberal left and the socially con...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Someone actually said this: Robert Caro on Manhattan's bookstore desert

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We read in this New York Times article that rising rents in some of America's richest neighborhoods, as well as new business models su...