Year: 2009

You can play for free if you want, but where’s the fun in that?

Go to

and enter as many guesses as you want: gender, date & time, weight, and length. If you want to play for free, you are done! If you want to pay $1/guess, drop me an email; there will be winners in each category, as well as an overall winner, which will be the guess with the fewest points, awarded as follows:

incorrect gender 400 points
date & time 5 points per hour
weight 5 points per ounce
length 10 points per inch

Let the games begin!

Unions prod Obama to fix ailing airline industry – Yahoo! News:

“U.S. aviation is facing severe economic uncertainty, and an open and frank conversation will help begin a continuing dialogue about the industry’s future,” Transportation Department spokeswoman Sasha Johnson said.
[…]
The forum, which is closed to the public and the media, was organized at the request of the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department.

Now Playing at Reason.tv: Remembering the Victims of Communism – Hit & Run : Reason Magazine:

Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall was breached and Soviet communism, at long last, entered its death spiral.

After claiming approximately 100 million victims in the 20th century, communism was dismissed to the ash heap of history. But those who suffered under its boot heel have largely been confined to the history books when not forgotten altogether.

Author and historian Lee Edwards set out to correct this oversight with the creation of the Victims of Communism memorial and online museum, dedicated to those who perished because of Communist regimes between 1917 and 1989.

Reason.tv spoke to Edwards about the importance of historical memory, plans for a forthcoming bricks-and-mortar museum in Washington, DC, and the paintings of Ukrainian gulag survivor Nikolai Gettman, currently on display at the Heritage Foundation, where Edwards is a “Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought.”

Produced by Meredith Bragg and Michael C. Moynihan.

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So now the government wants to usurp the bankruptcy laws and directly seize troubled financial institutions. As Chidem Kurdas points out in Too Big to Fail Red Herring:

Scroll back to September 2008. Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy, the credit market seizes up and stocks tank. What difference would the proposed law make in that situation? Lehman management is out and shareholders are wiped out anyway. Instead of regular bankruptcy, where the creditors exert influence, government directly takes over.

So the difference is that lenders will no longer be able to enforce their contractual claims. Oh yes, that will be just the right remedy for a fragile credit market. You’ll tell lenders they’re toast! That will really get credit flowing.