Assorted Links 5/14/09 Archives

Assorted Links 5/14/09

YouLaw: "Aw Shucks" Lawyer Achieves What You Cannot

Working with Congress and Congressional Staff: Communicating Effectively with Capitol Hill, May 15, 2009
Public Affairs and the Internet: Advanced Techniques and Strategies, May 19, 2009
Congress in a Nutshell: Understanding Congress, June 4, 2009
Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, June 5, 2009
Capitol Hill Workshop, June 10-12, 2009
Tracking and Monitoring Legislation: How to Find and Use Congressional Documents, June 25, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
How to Research and Compile Legislative Histories, June 26, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
Medical care without third party payment: the autism example
Suffering Succotash: Happy Mother's Day! - "It should be Mother's Week. That way, everyone would actually appreciate all that mom does every day instead of pretend they do, on a Sunday no less. Brunch and flowers really doesn't quite cut it, in my estimation. A family should take over all, and I do mean all, of mother's duties for one whole week, while mother writes poetry and makes collages, takes hot baths and long walks, comes and goes as she pleases and only gets kisses from clean faces and hands."
Vaclav Havel on the UN Human Rights Council
Spending Transparency: Vital to the State of our Union
Chrysler and the Rule of Law: The Founders put the contracts clause in the Constitution for a reason.
This Is Not Another Great Depression - "Since the start of the recession in late 2007, the monthly unemployment rate has risen from 4.9 percent to 7.6 percent in January 2009. Before thinking about the Great Depression, realize that unemployment rates have exceeded 7 percent in 139 months since World War II. This includes 32 months between 1974 and 1977, 76 months between 1980 and 1986, and 21 more between 1991 and 1993. The Great Depression was far more disastrous. One year after the stock market crash of 1929, the unemployment rate had risen from 2 percent to 10.8 percent. The next year it was 16.8 percent. Then unemployment rates rose above 20 percent for four straight years!"
Chevy has 381 Day Supply of Vehicles
Undercutting cap-and-trade?
ROTC and the Future of Liberal Education - ht ALD
Iodine is not salt
Digital Interfaces and Analog Eyeballs
Country Wisdom & Know-How
The Luxury City vs. the Middle Class - ht ALD
Can't Sell? Try Renting
Mortgage Equity Withdrawal (MEW), Consumption and Personal Saving Rate
Sigh Proposition 13, Again - "Is it fair to charge tax based on the stupidest person’s in the neighborhood’s price?"
Econ Neglects Licensing
It’s time to move beyond the nature/nurture divide: In advising parents to ignore hectoring experts, Judith Rich Harris’s book still packs a punch 10 years on. But its use of evolutionary theory and social psychology to explain how people are ‘shaped’ leaves much to be desired.
The inevitability of health care rationing
Slain Lawyer's YouTube Video Plunges Guatemala into Crisis, Protests Form on Facebook
Any Cop is RoboCop With an Electric Police Trike
Skytone Alpha 680 netbook Google Android spotted in the wild
McBummer
Do You Still Have a Land Line?
PhoneTag - Still The Best
What Items Do You Stock Up On?
Cheerios as “drug”
Cheerios: Prescription required?
The decline of chewing
Former FBI Agent: Torture Sucks. Don’t Do It.
Amnesiatics: That Was Then, This is Now… - "Big Brother comes not with jack boots and May Day parades, but with a kindly therapeutic smile--inviting all of us to accept hope and change and forget what we were."
Home Burial: Death of the American way of death