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"Last night I was a trillionaire, today
    I'll be using coins."

Read The Harare Diary, the accounts of a professional living in Zimbabwe's capital city.  read more »

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by Janet on 08/01/08


















Why some conservatives are backing Obama ()
"I do know libertarians who think Obama is the Antichrist, that he's farther left than John Kerry, much farther left than Bill Clinton, and you'd clearly have to be insane to vote for this guy," said David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. "But there are libertarians who say, 'Oh yeah? Do you think Obama will increase spending by $1 trillion, because that's what Republicans did over the past two presidential terms. So really, how much worse can he be?' And there are certainly libertarians who think Obama will be better on the war and on foreign policy, on executive power and on surveillance than McCain."


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One of these kiwis is illegal.

Food crisis? What food crisis?

The EU forced a producer of kiwis to dispose of 5,000 kiwi fruits for being 1mm smaller than the allowable size set by regulators. He has been banned from even giving them away - they must be pulped and disposed of.

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by Janet on 06/30/08

state-designed flood plan "needs
    improvement"
These folks tend to agree:

(Photo from BBC.)

Click for the full story.

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by Janet on 06/25/08

Little Kremlin on the Prairie
h/t (and credit for the clever title) to Gerry Nicholls on this one.

The Canadian Wheat Board is one of many ridiculous government institutions that interferes with the production, sale and consumption of agricultural goods in Canada, North America, and the world. It's for the good of the farmers... or at least that's what we're told, until one of them speaks up.

It's not too often that you get agricultural policy that doesn't just jack up prices and starve poor people, but hurts farmers, too. Unfortunately, oppression is one area where government excels at innovation.

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by Janet on 06/19/08