Pig-Dog Conservatives

CPAC — the Conservative Political Action Committee met last week (and no, I don’t care to find out where and precisely when, but it was in February 2009 if you’re curious.)  Every Republican who wants his name in the paper was there (oh, and I am deliberately being non-inclusive in my choice of pronoun here,…
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Good Old Capitalism

Well.  It seems the world is once again learning the true nature of Capitalism: it’s boom and bust, over and over.  The good thing about it is that we live under a generally comfortable but totally misunderstood version of freedom.  The bad thing is that when the economy busts, we gain a clearer conception of…
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