Ever notice that, when socialists want to illustrate the inadequacy of the private sector, their favorite example of (current) market failure is the most regulated and subsidized industry of all?
Has the blind cartoon mouse met his match?
Don’t miss — Zatô-itchy and Scratchy!
Funny blunder in Kubrick’s The Killing (1956): when George (Elisha Cook) takes a pistol from its hiding place, he pointlessly works the slide before inserting a magazine: the gun is thus not in firing condition.
Other movies seen this week:
Bob le Flambeur (1956), another caper, not bad but overrated.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), surprisingly straightforward for Hitchcock.
The Searchers (1956), a disturbing piece about obsession and hatred, with a happy ending incongruously tacked on.
In 1994, I was (so they tell me who follow such things) the first Libertarian in California to be endorsed for partisan office by a major daily newspaper. Now I have a chance at a second footnote in the history books!
There’s a new group (or maybe one guy) proposing an Amendment to recognize the right of secession:
The sovereign authority of any State to withdraw by law from the United States shall not be questioned, and the United States shall recognize it as a sovereign and independent country.
I’m chortling because the first clause was my suggestion (except that I wrote the People of any State), in response to this earlier draft:
If any state should, either through a referendum or a majority vote of that state’s legislature, choose to secede from the United States of America, Congress shall let it secede in peace, and recognize it as a sovereign and independent State.
My objection to this was that it overrode any provision that a State constitution might have for supermajority or popular ratification. Many of us, I imagine, would want some major reforms before allowing the gang of thieves in the State capitol to declare itself sovereign by simple majority!
A few months ago you may remember I had some dreams inspired by Buffy. This morning in dream, I was among the crew of Serenity, apparently taking Book’s place. We happened to be on Wash’s home planet, and I heard his side of a conversation in which he failed to find the words to tell his mother that he was married and a father. Later, Kaylee put on the “Shindig” gown for a formal dinner.
