Jacob Davies

by Jacob Davies (We just moved over the weekend and we’re still buried in boxes, so I haven’t had a chance to post here the last few days, but this is a quick* post on some issues related to taxation.) * Quick, and therefore not short. Pithiness is hard. (Pissiness, on the other hand…) In … Read more

by Jacob Davies The last post was a little dry, so I thought I’d try to illustrate the scale of the problem and the strange indifference in our response with a dramatic illustration. Plus, the last zombies post had stopped being about zombies, and I think it’s important that we have at least one zombie-related … Read more

by Jacob Davies I am not a fan of the word “stimulus”. I am not a fan of many of the things done by the previous stimulus bill. When largely-conservative critics of the stimulus complain about the waste inherent in the government borrowing money to do things not worth doing, I sympathize – even as … Read more

by Jacob Davies First, some disclaimers. I think Barack Obama was clearly the best choice of the Democratic primary candidates, and because I wasn’t repeatedly dropped on my head as a baby, I think he was clearly better than the McCain/Palin ticket, in much the same way that a nice hot cup of tea is … Read more