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Blog Review 975

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It's hardly a surprise that unions attempt to use the law to make life easier for their members now, is it?

Is California broke because it doesn't raise enough in taxes? Or because it spends too much money?

Best comment so far on the upcoming elections.

At last! An economic explanation for why modern art sucks.

Although it has to be said, some economists can have some odd thoughts at times.

Zimbabwe's problems: no, not caused by colonialism, drought or anything else except appalling policy.

And finally, did we domesticate cats or did they domesticate us?

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Older gamers saved... from what exactly?

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altP2P is reporting that the EU is funding the development of game tables that allow older people to play video games:

According to Amparo Ruiz, an occupational therapist in Galicia, Spain who helped supervise some of the trials, “The elderly people like it when they play and feel integrated into the new technologies. “It’s also very important that I can get information about their attention, memory and other functions while they are playing, and then choose games that emphasis the areas where they have problems.

Surely we are old enough to remember ATARI game tables that ended up in bars and nerdy pubs? They are probably pretty cheap to pick up these days. I know a few people who have then at home. Why bother with a new "system" when one already exists? Is there something that the EU finds offensive about Pac-Man, Defender and other ATARI classics?

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Scott Paul joins the ASI

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Scott is finishing a Juris Doctor degree at Brigham Young University’s School of Law. His research emphases include fiduciary duty law, religious freedom, and charitable giving instruments.

During law school, Scott served as president of the BYU student chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and on the board of the law school’s Government & Politics Legal Society. He also helped organize and run several international policy conferences hosted by the law school. Prior to law school, Scott received a BS in Psychology from BYU and then worked in Washington DC for the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Scott is an avid sports fan, a musician, and a budding social entrepreneur.

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Blog Review 974

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There's more than a whiff of, well, something decidedly wrong, when some 20 MPs all pay the same company 20 times the market rate for their website.

If the Chancellor cannot do his tax return and has to use accountants: well, why not use the accountants to do the budget as well? Couldn't be any worse, could it?

Hoover made the Depression by cutting spending, didn't he? But if Hoover increased spending then that argument rather fails, doesn't it?

A reminder of what this free market thing is all about: the consumer surplus!

On the globalisation of crime.

It's true, this is a very difficult argument to sustain.

And finally, an unfortunate juxtaposition.

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Blog Review 973

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Ted Kennedy's always been anti-nuclear. Guess where the treatment that put his brain cancer into remission came from?

Another gobsmacking story of where your money goes.

One of those iconic moments in left wing folk history turns out to be a little different from what is generally assumed.

Didn't The Who do a song about this? Meet the new boss, same as the old?

The Beatles did one about this. Although not even George Harrison thought they would tax losing one's virginity.

A song that The Proclaimers didn't but should have written.

And finally, Baldrick's poetery is not possible to put to music.

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Blog Review 972

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Much is made of the need to save local newspapers. There are those who say that maybe local governments, or central, might subsidise them. Here's evidence that there wouldn't be any point in having them if they were so subsidised.

That preference for the unions in the Chrysler bankruptcy. Congratulations Mr. President, you've just made finance more expensive for each and every unionised company.

Why we shouldn't use the Human Development Index as a measurement of anything other than how like Scandanavia a place is.

Politics is so often about squaring circles: and refusing to admit that circles cannot be squared.

Economists don't try brain surgery: so why do brain surgeons try economics?

A very confused Early Day Motion praising Polly Toynbee. She reveals her salary from The Guardian, but not her speaking fees, other freelance income nor her book royalties. We are urged, at her example, to reveal our total incomes.

And finally, where your tax money goes.

 

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