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Quote of the week

Quote of the week:

To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. — Bertrand Russell

Article of the month is The Onion’s Americans Demand Increased Government Protection
from Themselves, which for some reason I cannot find on their archives.

Walmart came up in conversation last night. A friend’s father is a plaintiff in two cases where Walmart is the defendant. In each case, Walmart employees acted rather stupidly and unjustly. That aside, Will Wilkenson’s article, Walmart, Community, and Civic Virtue is great.

• Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on Kelo vs. New London
• A have a one in my car!
• Thomas Schelling wins Nobel Prize, and my landlord
• Whose money is it, anyway?
• Jonathan Richman, NPR’s Marketplace, Walmart, Eagles