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Department of Duh
Justin, a loyal MR reader, writes to me:
Funny
new story. Near the end it mentions citizen's group that wants to
remove cameras from a highway because, in their words, "It's nothing
but a speed tax".
I liked the opening paragraph of the piece:
A driver has racked up dozens of speeding tickets in photo-radar zones on Phoenix-area freeways while sporting monkey and
giraffe masks, and is fighting every one by claiming the costumes make
it impossible for authorities to prove he was behind the wheel.
Monkey masks I can see. But giraffe masks? That's good enough for a markets in everything. Who, other than this guy, buys a giraffe mask? And how is this for governmental wisdom?
…It took Arizona state police months to realize the same driver was involved
And the guy's car?
…has black-and-white checkered racing stickers on its sides and a sticker on the windshield that reads "Bucktooth Racin'."
The state now has surveillance photos of him putting on a mask before driving but vonTesmar, the driver, offers up a novel defense:
…[he] said if the Department of Public Safety
does have surveillance photos of him on the road, it proves he's not a
danger to other drivers. If he were, officers would have pulled him
over, he said.
The cameras remain unpopular in Arizona:
Arizonans have used sticky notes, Silly String and even a pickax to sabotage the cameras.
Many
believe the shooting death of speed-enforcement van operator Doug
Georgianni on April 19 on a Phoenix freeway was a result of anger over
the cameras, although authorities haven't made that direct allegation.
Three separate citizens groups are targeting the cameras in initiatives for the 2010 ballot.
As you can see, the local government blogging marathon continues. Soon I'll offer up some posts on crime.
Assorted links
1. Ben Casnocha chats with Penelope Trunk.
2. Buy and sell words on Twitter (but not with real money).
4. Many world records were set in Mexico this year.
6. Markets in everything: the office kid.
7. Bruce Bartlett joins Capital Gains and Games.
Assorted links
2. Markets in everything: lingerie football.
3. Receiving income payments can kill you.
Assorted links
1. Drugging the political opposition.
2. The substantive bottom line.
3. Did Hitler and Lenin ever play chess? Probably not I say.
4. Markets in everything: how good is your book? non-published Kirkus reviews for indie authors.
5. How to make restaurant visits worthwhile: bill them for your time.
Assorted links
1. What's the chance you'll die in the next year? Here is a new calculator.
2. Markets in everything: revenge flyers.
3. One good way to think about why placebo effects are getting stronger.
4. The conference bike: will it make meetings longer or shorter?
Assorted links
1. Is Viagra bankrupting Brazilian pensions?
2. The decline of the super-rich.
3. Markets in everything: North Korean restaurant comes to NYC.
4. Brahms Complete Edition, 46 discs for $62.
5. Via Chris Masse, Hal Varian on how the web challenges managers (for the video version click on "launch interactive" and "all videos"). Chris also refers us to the Avatar trailer, which he describes as the best science fiction movie ever.
6. The Singapore model: sign me up too.
Assorted links
1. Markets in everything: The Twitter Opera, from Covent Garden.
2. IP norms and stand-up comedy, and a comment.
3. Book covers that were not meant to be.
4. The importance of the NYC subway.
5. Chris Masse sends me a long McKinsey study on the economics of prizes.
Assorted links
1. More on David Wessel's book on the Fed.
2. In defense of Goldman Sachs.
3. Rose Wilder Lane and her mother.
4. Markets in everything: A poet/lawyer has
started a consulting group to help writers with their
applications/portfolios to creative writing MFA/PhD programs. Here is one negative reaction, here is more on the dispute.
Assorted links
1. Motley Fool podcast, by me.
3. Chess players play the "beauty contest" game.
4. The Robot Gamelan Orchestra.
5. Markets in everything, a new use for pigeon blood, the link is safe for work but not for everybody.
Assorted links
1. Via Chris Masse, one account of life as a fashion model.
2. Countercyclical asset of the day: building sheds.
3. Me, on the future of libraries and related matters.
4. NeighborhoodEffects, a blog.
5. How much should blog writers disclose about their personal lives?
6. Old people are less interested in health care reform: the numbers.
7. Markets in everything: de-baptism, done with a hair dryer.
Assorted links
1. Thinking clearly about inequality, by Will Wilkinson.
2. China silly forecast of the day.
3. Inaugural issue of Rejecta Mathematica is out.
4. Markets in everything: the new Cheap Trick album is available on 8-track.
5. How to get your wallet returned if you lose it: carry a baby photo in there.
6. CIT battlelines.
Assorted links
1. Markets in everything: Do Stuff for Money.
2. Ezra Klein on administrative costs.
3. Jeff Friedman's Critical Review, special issue on the financial crisis, $$ but recommended; view the abstracts here.
4. Our culture of (pornographic) small bits (totally safe link).
5. Michael Lewis and derivatives and AIG.
6. Superb Dave Leonhardt column on health care and prostate cancer.
Assorted links
Mobile, Alabama bleg
I'll be there soon and I'll have a free day — maybe even a day and a half — and I'm wondering what to do. For all the talk about markets in everything, I can't find a good guide book on Alabama. This worries me only a little. There is Alabama Off the Beaten Path but first I would like to know the path. Your suggestions are very much welcome and since they are coming in an intellectual vacuum they will have even more influence than usual. (Imagine handing Road to Serfdom to a thirteen-year-old.) What and where does one eat? I'll also be driving on to a talk in Biloxi, in case you know of anything interesting, or any good food, on the Mobile-Biloxi route.
I am, in fact, very excited to be visiting Mobile for the first time.
Assorted links
1. Ezra Klein's new food column.
2. Washington Post markets in everything? The paper has yet to respond, so do be aware there may be another side to this story.
4. 1959.
5. The Kissing Experiment (2009).