ROGER KIMBALL: Annals of Justice, Division of Jury Duty. “Our government, I am more and more convinced, has degenerated into a mechanism whose most palpable effect (not its purpose, of course) is to irritate citizens by wasting their time and requiring their collusion in an endless bureaucratic paper chase.”
Archive for 2013
March 25, 2013
THEODORE DALRYMPLE: Is America at the Point Where HIV Testing Should Be Routine?
CONTINUING OUR KNIFE-SHARPENING DISCUSSION, reader Dan Apple recommends this Spyderco Sharpener. “The Spyderco Sharpmaker is the one for me. Easy to use and very compact and portable. I keep mine in the kitchen.”
NEW YORK SUN: Sequester Joe Biden. “Vice President Biden’s hotel bill in Paris — the Drudge Report headlines it at $585,000.50 for a night at the Intercontinental, not including the ride in from the airport — is prompting the futureofcapitalism.com to wonder why Amtrak’s most famous passenger failed to stay at the sprawling palace that serves as the residence of the American ambassador in the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. A good question, to which we’d add our own: What was Mr. Biden, whose only constitutional duty is to serve in the Senate as its president, doing in Paris in the first place?”
JAMES TARANTO: Revenge Of The Nerds: For one “developer evangelist,” dongles are no laughing matter. “No one should accept feminists in the role of taste police, at least until they set up a robust internal affairs division.”
AND YET THE BBC IS THE MODEL FOR THE BRITS’ NEW PRESS-REGULATION REGIME: Two senior Doctor Who staff ‘used their jobs to sexually exploit young male fans of BBC show in 1980s.’
WAIT, I THOUGHT IT WAS SPRING. . . .
THE FASTEST-GROWING RETAILER IN THE COUNTRY: “Nasty Gal.”