Unrelated comments in no particular order
Montana Congressman Greg Gianforte body slammed a reporter during his campaign. He’s since apologized. This is the best commentary about the comments on that event. It’s called “Face it: The body-slammed reporter did just what you would have done” by Felix Biederman.
The Texas Legislature comes back for a special session on July 18th. The agenda includes the Texas Bathroom Bill. Supporters tell me its purpose is to protect women from men posing as women. Am I supposed to believe that when a man dresses as a woman, hides out in the women’s room, and sexually assaults a woman, he has not violated any law?
Has anyone played this game: Two Rooms and a Boom? Two teams are randomly placed in two rooms. One team has the President. The other has a bomb. The teams swap players between the two rooms in “hostage exchanges.” At the end of the exchanges, if the President and the bomb are in the same room, the bomb team wins. If not, the President team wins.
The Kansas legislature overrode Gov. Sam Brownback’s veto of a tax increase bill. The bill’s purpose was to reverse some disastrous tax cuts. The tax cuts were supposed to be a “shot of adrenaline to the heart of the Kansas economy.” Extra money leads to investment, which leads to business expansion, which leads to prosperity. Except when it doesn’t. Any discussion I ever had about money for product development or capital improvements always came down to one question: what’s the rate of return? It’s nice to have the money in your pocket, but if a company doesn’t think spending money will make money, it won’t spend money. Handing a company money is no guarantee it will stimulate the economy. The whole thing sounds vaguely socialistic.
(Image is “BOOM” by “Richard Eriksson” on Flickr. CC-2.0. He’s Canadian.)
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