When Barack Obama makes his New Year’s resolutions, at the top of his list ought to be the following: “I will not allow America to become New Jersey.”

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I missed this during the election, but it’s still funny as hell.

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Obama to gay marriage advocates: Go fuck yourselves.

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The story of the second-biggest* Ponzi scheme in history keeps getting more and more interesting.
A hedge-fund manager friend called last night to talk about Madoff. He wanted to talk about just how ugly the unraveling of the Madoff saga was likely to get. And if the first name on his lips was (obviously) Madoff, the […]

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Today is the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition. The 21st Amendment, repealing the 18th Amendment, was ratified on December 5th, 1933.
I would like to hoist my glass to the fact that, at the time of Prohibition there was near-universal agreement that the Federal government did NOT have the power to ban alcohol […]

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Tanzan and Ekido were once traveling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was still falling.
Coming around a bend, they met a lovely girl in a silk kimono and sash, unable to cross the intersection.
“Come on, girl” said Tanzan at once. Lifting her in his arms, he carried her over the mud.
Ekido did not […]

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