http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/ A collection of real-world libertarian, individualist and laissez-faire rants on policy, culture and other current events by an average, everyday lawyer & investment banker and part-time pop scholar. en-us 2008-06-28T11:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1214302168.shtml Some malcontents are lamenting the fact that Harvard graduates are actually finding jobs:... Kip 2008-06-24T10:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1214268780.shtml He uses the subprime crisis and the housing (not-quite) crisis as an opportunity to check premises:... Kip 2008-06-24T00:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1213961818.shtml Apparently the federal government thinks so:... Kip 2008-06-20T11:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1213823295.shtml For those who were righteously indignant after reading my recent post about an incident involving some California educrats and law enforcement officials maliciously tormenting students by falsely informing them that... Kip 2008-06-18T21:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1213097420.shtml The problem with real-world economics is that reality is simply too complex and too dynamic to fit into nice little freshman-classroom, single-chalkboard equations. Everything impacts everything else, everything generates unintended consequences,... Kip 2008-06-10T18:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1213040279.shtml Fascinating comparison-and-contrast:... Kip 2008-06-10T00:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1213040074.shtml I don't think it's supposed to be here:... Kip 2008-06-09T19:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1212932938.shtml Anyone have any experience, either directly or anecdotally, with DreamHost, the large web hosting service?... Kip 2008-06-08T23:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1212718771.shtml The latest data on the mortgage and housing situation:... Kip 2008-06-06T10:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1212624673.shtml For those who may have had some trouble following the (very minor) debate between Doc Palmer and me in the comments to my previous post on cap-and-trade, Arnold Kling <a... Kip 2008-06-05T00:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1212451330.shtml George Will skewers the insolent notion that cap-and-trade proposals to reduce carbon emissions, such as those currently before Congress and endorsed by all three presidential candidates, are somehow "market-based" &mdash;... Kip 2008-06-03T00:06+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1211280104.shtml I went to my co-op's annual shareholder meeting last night. One of the two main topics for discussion was the plan of one of our non-residential neighbors to add floors to... Kip 2008-05-20T10:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210732641.shtml As part of the preparations for my trip, I had to make a toiletries run at a pharmacy near my work. Which meant having yet again to do battle with... Kip 2008-05-17T06:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210925976.shtml Congress has approved, apparently by veto-proof margins, yet another farm bill that yet again benefits rich farmers at the expense of all taxpayers. This while the ethanol mandate mania continues... Kip 2008-05-16T08:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210732736.shtml Once I return from my undisclosed location, I will for the first time ever have earned "elite status" with an airline (Continental). Indeed, my choice of destination was based in small... Kip 2008-05-15T15:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210561326.shtml The New York Times pulled a rather "artistic" stunt in continuing to "paint" malevolence toward the successful as concern over the fiction of "rising income equality" &mdash;... Kip 2008-05-12T11:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1209925071.shtml (I sincerely hope this does not become a regular feature here.)... Kip 2008-05-06T11:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210037125.shtml Some defenders of a tort reform program implemented in Texas since 1995 try to pull a fast one:... Kip 2008-05-06T01:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210037125.shtml Some defenders of a tort reform program implemented in Texas since 1995 try to pull a fast one:... Kip 2008-05-06T01:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210036903.shtml There are certain axioms, certain fundamental pillars, upon which this blog is based. One is that all politicians are, by definition, moral defectives. Another is the ubiquitousness of the Politics... Kip 2008-05-06T01:05+00:00