The International House of Bacon

Still not finding the time to write everything I want to write, both personally and politically. Go figure.

* A fairly chilling (for me, anyway) column about the FLDS raid has been linked all over the place. It kind of brings into focus what’s being faced at this point - over 400 kids being removed from their homes based on an anonymous, and probably false, tip. The pregnant and married 16 year olds can technically exist under Texas law, and the immediate danger of the younger ones or the males of the group are completely without evidence at this point. This isn’t to say that there aren’t some legitimate dangers to the sort of fundamentalism that has occurred in some of these extreme sects, or that there may actually be some problems, but evidence matters, no? The problem is the cultish aspect/perception, I think, even if some in charge might not admit it. A good analogy is here.

* To steal a line from the 2004 election, Obama was for the gas tax holiday before he was against it. Apparently, we’re not yet at extraordinary circumstances, even though gas is three times as high as it was when he voted for it initially.

* Humans on the brink of extinction 70000 years ago? Interesting.

* Drew Carey on a subject near and dear to my heart: the right to sell bacon. Okay, in all seriousness (or should I say “frankly”), it’s more about basic economic rights (psst, paft), but you can take my bacon-wrapped hot dog from my cold, dead hands.

* EconLog on basic fiscal reality.

Yay Friday!