Reasoning
Today, I wrote two quick posts about health care at Reason’s awesome blog, Hit & Run. Thanks to the Koch Associate Program, I’ll be spending the next year with Reason, where I’ll write a fair bit more about policy than I do in this space. But don’t you worry — I’ll still drop by TAS as frequently as possibly to blather about irrelevant pop-culture and hipsterism (which may be redundant). You can’t escape!
On an unrelated note, I saw Frodus play the Black Cat on Saturday night. The band broke up when I was in high school, and I never got to see them play. So I can’t compare them to how they used to be, but the set on Saturday was really amazing — though I might be biased because the current bass player for the band is Jake Brown, one of my best friends from middle and high school. Still, it was more than a great nostalgia trip — it was a really great show, and if you can even barely imagine yourself enjoying a spazzy hardcore show, I heartily recommend checking them out if they drop into town.
Peter, as soon as I saw the obituary for John Houghtaling, inventor of the Magic Fingers vibrating bed, I knew you’d write this post.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/business/20houghtaling.html?ref=obituaries
— Conor Friedersdorf · Jun 22, 09:19 PM · #
Aren’t those Reason posts kind of beside the point? People like Matt Yglesias or Paul Krugman don’t support a public health insurance plan because it would be better, they support it because it would be public. (And thus, ontologically better, regardless of its functional qualities.)
Mind you, the libertarians who believe that exact same rules are acceptable if they are established as covenants running with the land when a subdivision is created, but immoral when enacted by a city council as a zoning resolution, suffer from a similar disease.
— y81 · Jun 22, 09:31 PM · #
Hope everyone’s okay.
— Sargent · Jun 23, 01:19 AM · #
Congrats on the new gig, Peter!
— Tom Meyer · Jun 23, 01:38 PM · #