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/1210245093.shtml "A building has integrity, just like a man — and just as seldom."... Kip 2008-05-08T14:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1209921244.shtml And who, you might be wondering, is Ms. Maureen Felix of West Orange, New Jersey?... Kip 2008-05-04T17:05+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1209222931.shtml An astonishingly arrogant, and economically oblivious, op-ed in today's Washington Post by the mayors of Cincinnati, Rochester and Stamford:... Kip 2008-04-26T16:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1208986046.shtml Far too much cyber-ink is being spilled regarding a new book by a noted legal scholar, Cass Sunstein, and an equally noted economist, Richard Thaler, called Nudge.... Kip 2008-04-23T21:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1207707613.shtml To review: Regardless of what one thinks of the propriety of the government blocking strictly private employment contracts between competent consenting adults at the lower end of the work spectrum... Kip 2008-04-09T02:04+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1202357044.shtml "Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality... Kip 2008-02-07T13:02+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1202352243.shtml I seem to recall a throwaway sentence or two in one of Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" books mentioning that the age of majority in his fictional, distant-future, pan-galactic civilization was seven, but... Kip 2008-02-07T02:02+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1201840257.shtml Sometimes politicians introduce sarcastic bills in their legislatures to make a "slippery slope" or "jump the shark" sort of point -- a publicity stunt.... Kip 2008-02-01T04:02+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1201318466.shtml No, not Scientology ... Scientocracy:... Kip 2008-01-26T12:01+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1201094402.shtml A few days ago, in another context, I wrote the following:... Kip 2008-01-23T13:01+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1200623213.shtml I've blogged previously about proposals to tax cosmetic surgery for no other reason than because some self-appointed arbiters of what are "proper" and "improper" uses of one's money or one's... Kip 2008-01-18T02:01+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1199198374.shtml On why any central planner worth his salt should advocate banning subprime mortgages:... Kip 2008-01-01T14:01+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1198332502.shtml You're probably familiar with the old joke about two explorers in the jungle who stumble upon a hungry tiger.* As they run for their lives, one explorer shouts to the other,... Kip 2007-12-22T14:12+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1197513020.shtml I'm always amazed, and dismayed, when people assume that a business that does not operate precisely in the manner, or with the policies, that they would prefer is, by definition, losing... Kip 2007-12-13T12:12+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1195619277.shtml Some very confused malcontents at — where else? — a liberal arts college seem to think so:... Kip 2007-11-24T11:11+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1194783985.shtml Question: Which radical conservative politician invented the insolent canard of "activist judges"?... Kip 2007-11-12T12:11+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1194204023.shtml Yet another confused malcontent laments "too many choices" —... Kip 2007-11-05T11:11+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1193506725.shtml Care to guess what topic could generate such schizophrenia?... Kip 2007-10-27T17:10+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1193101711.shtml An editorial in today's New York Times:... Kip 2007-10-23T01:10+00:00 http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1192495458.shtml Consider the following simple hypothetical:... Kip 2007-10-16T00:10+00:00