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• Innovation? New Drugs? Nah…We Can Cope.
• Information Wants to Ask the New York Times Whether to Be Free or Not
• What? Another Podcast?
• Also, They Own the Announcers
• At Least She’s Interesting…
• Anyone Remember “Birdland”? Heck, Anyone Remember “Bird”?
• Conservatism Doesn’t Need One Leader, Because It Has Millions
• Who Knew SNL Could Still Be Funny?

Innovation? New Drugs? Nah…We Can Cope. Posted: 23 Nov 2009 09:05 AM PST Reason TV does some pretty good work. This video is a good quick look at why the easy “drug companies are shameless profiteers” slogan isn’t particularly accurate and what punishing drug companies for making money will do to the production of new drugs.

Information Wants to Ask the New York Times Whether to Be Free or Not Posted: 23 Nov 2009 07:47 AM PST Wait, I thought the media were supposed to want to uncover the hidden mechanations of government. Whatever happened to speaking truth to power and “information wants to be free” and all that stuff? I guess maybe information better start asking permission from the New York Times first. And as a nice sequel of sorts to our [...]

What? Another Podcast? Posted: 22 Nov 2009 07:39 PM PST There have been some interesting and exciting things afoot at Take That Radio, home of The Delivery (and you do listen every week, yes?) and many other very good podcasts. One of them is a brand-new podcast called Right This Way, which is basically a roundtable discussion, taped on Friday night, featuring as many Take [...]

Also, They Own the Announcers Posted: 22 Nov 2009 07:16 PM PST Here’s a nice little video illustrating why government-run health care will eventually become the only game in town. They could probably just have gotten a LeBron slam-dunk highlight reel to fill in as the government, what with his phantom third-step and all, but I guess the rights would have been too expensive. What? I’m just saying [...]

At Least She’s Interesting… Posted: 22 Nov 2009 06:50 PM PST Last week, I wrote a bit about how I think Sarah Palin could do with being less guarded and how, when she makes mistakes, she should claim ownership of them with grace and good humor. As it happens, Stacy was hunting down that very same trail. All of which is to say, you are the [...]

Anyone Remember “Birdland”? Heck, Anyone Remember “Bird”? Posted: 22 Nov 2009 05:35 PM PST Sunday night is a good night for something from one of the greatest trumpet players who ever lived. This is his version of “Birdland”, originally done by Weather Report (written by the incomparable Joe Zawinul). It’s probably my favorite version of the song. The club about which the song was written is still around (though [...]

Conservatism Doesn’t Need One Leader, Because It Has Millions Posted: 22 Nov 2009 04:48 PM PST Zo is right on the money. I’ve been saying this for a while now. It’s not enough to whack the President’s totalitarian policies, though they are eminently whackable. We conservatives have to start showing people exactly how conservative economic and social policies work in the real world. Don’t get me wrong. We should say “no” to [...]

Who Knew SNL Could Still Be Funny? Posted: 22 Nov 2009 12:17 PM PST Somewhere, deep in the bowels of CNN Headquarters, Wolf Blitzer’s team of earnest fact-checkers is working overtime. I’m no fan of Saturday Night Live, but this skit is actually funny (even if they play the joke out one too many times). The real news, if you’re looking for the news angle, is that for the first [...]

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