Vol. 41 No. 3, July 2009
Index
- Why Long Beach isn't Detroit: how Southern California survived the collapse of aircraft manufacturing without a bailout.
- Corrections.
- Stimulating ourselves to death.
- The Liberaltarian Jackalope.
- Drug control begets gun control: the violence in Mexico is caused by prohibition, not firearms.
- 30 years ago in reason.
- DEA tax collectors: medical marijuana raids.
- Roquefort revolution: trade policy folly.
- Bogus bodega busts: corrupt Philadelphia cops.
- Quotes.
- Transparency failure: national security or secure lobbying?
- Freeing Harvard.
- Militia member memo: paranoia in Missouri.
- The graduates: charter school success.
- The unrepentant D.A.: prosecutorial error in Santa Clara.
- Frisco freak-out: public art, public nuisance?
- In New Zealand, Steve Wyn-Harris rented a wall-less tent for the 50th Jubilee of Central Hawke's Bay College.
- In Seminole County, Florida, Judge Ralph Erikkson tossed a man in jail because he did not like the fellow's lawyer.
- Janitor Jesus Barajas saved for 30 years to build his dream house on a piece of property he owns in Seattle.
- Massachusetts lawmakers are considering a bill that would expand the state's child pornography laws to cover material featuring people older than 60 and the disabled--even if they are mentally competent.
- Mike and Cathy Grosse were shopping when they got the call from the Hamilton, Ohio, fire department.
- Ryan Moats, a running back for the Houston Texans, rushed to the hospital with his family when he heard his mother-in-law was dying.
- The British government has unveiled plans to track every person who leaves the United Kingdom, even for just one day.
- Washington state banned the sale of dishwashing detergents containing more than 0.5 percent phosphates; the prohibition will go statewide next year, but it initially took effect in Spokane County.
- Bush-era porn prosecution ends in guilty plea.
- Neighborhood watch: private policing in Chicago.
- Twitter teamwork: Fargo flood friends.
- Drug decriminalization in Portugal.
- The joys of brain scrubbing: the advantages of memory deletion in a collectively omniscient world.
- Paying the pirate's price: do the economics of piracy demand the privatization of the sea?
- Turning Japanese: Japan's post-bubble policies produced a "lost decade." So why is President Obama emulating them?
- Anatomy of a child pornographer: what happens when adults catch teenagers "sexting" photos of each other? The death of common sense.
- 20,000 nations above the sea: is floating the last, best hope for liberty?
- Sympathy for the investment banker: who killed Bear Stearns? After all, it was you and me.
- Downsize me.
- The prehistory of porn presecution: how "Licentious Gotham" gave rise to today's obscenity laws.
- The southern lifestyle will rise again.
- Death of a dystopian: the life and legacy of J.G. Ballard.
- We often dream of trains.
- A foreign policy they can't refuse.
- Stripping away free expression: a Pennsylvania town tries--and fails--to ban a form of exercise.
- Dickens is back. Watch your wallet. If you want to understand the economy, don't turn to the author of Oliver Twist for answers.
- A scary thing indeed.