The Los Angeles Times has been actively editorializing in favor of banning plastic bags from grocery stores. Example: one of their editorials from last April. And they have succeeded in getting th...Read More
The FDA wants to keep “junk food” junky so you will eat what they say you should. “Pink Stuff” The following is from The Food Lawyers newsletter: “FDA has long had a poli...Read More
This year to celebrate Labor Day many in the labor movement are demanding that we raise the minimum wage. Beware the urge to do good when it violates the laws of economics. Cowpeople working This ye...Read More
About 1200 in Rothenburg, Bavaria (pronounced rotenberg) in order to build a city wall they levied a tax on all of the properties within the walls of the city. The tax was unusual for the time in th...Read More
The Environmental Agency of the United Kingdom studied bags and decided that plastic disposable bags were the most environmentally friendly. But it is fashionable to ban them. So we do. Plastic Bags...Read More
I failed. The City of Pasadena has banned plastic bags beginning in July. I had opposed the ban on my blog when it was proposed last October and distributed my argument against it to as many peopl...Read More
I confess. I really dislike double wide strollers. They clog any aisle or sidewalk they enter. They are a product built for the convenience of a few at a cost to us all. So I was very pleased ...Read More
California is the home of the Frisbee it was invented here in the San Gabriel Valley and it has become synonymous with summer and beaches. Now the LA County Supervisors have banned throwing anything...Read More
In Israel so many of the caregivers are from the Philippines that the Hebrew word for caregiver has become “philippina.” So that it is possible (and we overheard this) to say: &...Read More
A few weeks ago in the Orange County Weekly there was an advertising insert for the Medical Marijuana industry. It included lots of advertising for clinics and dispensaries. And this special listing o...Read More