Future Tabs

Stay Calm and Check it out. Pure libertarians are neither right nor left, nor where the extremes of both meet. Mostly they come from a sensibility outside both redstream and mainstream: one that PJ O'Roarke put perfectly in Parliament of Whores: "The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work — and then they get elected and prove it." PJ is gone, and Reason isn't funny, but it comes from a sane place that neither side of the dem/rep duopoly dwells these days. So its take on many things is worth reading. Examples: Billy Binion's Is This Constitutional? Here's How Due Process Works and Virginia Postrel's Abundance Makes the Case for 'Supply-Side Progressivism'. Mainly, it makes thought-out arguments, rather than polemics—the kind of stuff that makes you nod along or shake your head without feeling the need to tweet it from the rooftops.

I still don't like the plane. Crew vs. View on United's Boeing 787 now has had 3000 visits since it went up in 2017, Medium tells me. Most of those visits were from back when Medium was more of a happening thing. I put a fresher version of the post here on the blog, with the title A dark review for United’s Boeing 787.

Too many? Probably. I'm losing count of how many links I'd like to share lead to paywalls or teasewalls (walls teasing a subscription that show up part way through a full read).