Daily Archives: January 8, 2004


The Ingraham Perspective

On the way home from a basketball game tonight I had the opportunity to spend a few minutes with Laura Ingraham who had this to say:

We need to take the country back from the elites!
Bush is an elite!

I wonder why it took her so long to figure this out.


Drug Benefits for Seniors Corporations

Skimble quotes generously from this WSJ article and I give you just this little bit:

The program is supposed to encourage employers to retain prescription-drug coverage.
But companies are entitled to the subsidy regardless of how much of the cost they pick up themselves. As a result, it does nothing to halt the current rush by some employers to shift more costs to retirees.
In fact, benefits consultants are designing employer-sponsored prescription plans to save companies more money by unloading costs on their former workers without losing out on the new subsidy.

It makes me feel just so good to know that whatever part of my taxes is not going to support a Nevada swimming pool is going to help the bottom line of some government supported corporation.
Via Sisyphus Shrugged.


More on WMDs

Skippy notes that Colin Powell:

…staunchly disagreed with a private think tank report that insists there are no wmd’s to be found in that country.

I’d like to remind you what Colin Powell said in February 2001 about UN Sanctions:

And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors.

Iraq was a threat to who?


Academic Blogging

Professor Bainbridge quotes at length one Dean’s thoughts on blogging, scholarship and tenure:

Bottom line: While no replacement for writing articles and books, and no one is going to get tenured or promoted through blogging (at least not today); but what I’ve called a serious blogger would get a big plus on the positive side on the ledger from me when it gets to merit review time! Failing to reward it would be failing to recognize that blogging is not just another new communication medium; it is a new way to do scholarship.

The Dean also recognizes something many of you are experiencing. Blogging can absorb huge amount of time:

That being said, just reading blogs – let alone writing them – can be entirely too much fun, and could suck time away from the grind of in depth writing and research. In fact, I should be massaging my footnotes instead of writing this. I’m also advising my juniors not to get blog-happy.

Read the rest and for those interested in delving deeper there are links to a couple long discussions.