You’re like me and The Superbowl isn’t your thing, here is some good reading material to substitute your time with. Some of it is a bit old, but I found them in my links file this morning and thought it’d be good to include them.
Damn W. Root posts at Reason.Com on FDR’s packing of the courts and the attempted packing of the SCOTUS. This is something else I expect President Obama to copy from FDR, so we might as well and get a hint at what it looks like.
Joel Kotkin labels the District of Columbia a fiefdom and calls it “Pyongyang on the Potomac” during his post on the concentration of power there.
Lawrence B. Lindsey writes in the WSJ and wonders why not a payroll tax holiday, pointing out that it would cost less, be reflected in the economy faster, and make more people happy. Megan McArdle replies here: “The main problem with a payroll tax holiday is that it minimizes Congressional opportunities for graft and larding out goodies to their contributors.”
Which is why we’ll never see it.
In the not-so-bright department, we have Guardian columnist, Polly Toynbee, exclaiming the virtues of a new bill in the UK that has as its sole purpose the redistribution of, well, I’m sure can guess what.
And lastly, I have a local nitwit columnist, Joni Balter, praising the arrival of The Lightworker as a sign that “government is cool” again, and that guys like local media whore/initiative writer, Tim Eyman, need to quit fighting and go into the whole she and her ilk keep trying to stuff him into.
In conclusion, I’d just like to say Go Griz! Have a good National Football Day!