Author: Will Cox
Small Moments of Joy
I love waving to my daughters at the bus stop.
Every Now and Again a Writer Takes a Plane
Peggy Noonan is tired of the security theater at the airport. Why do we do this when you know I am not a terrorist, and you know I know you know I am not a terr...
Same as Anyone Else
Oh, look, it appears that we’ll make the Arabs happy by leaving them alone. Who knew?
Talking Point for the Frugal Candidate
The government’s pockets are only as deep as yours.
No Choice at All
Shall we choose the profligate candidate, or the spendthrift? Where’s the frugal choice when you need one?
HOA Taxes
I have been serving on the board of the Dalton Farm Homeowner Association for almost a year. This past week we developed the budget for the next fiscal year. Th...
Are Guidance Counselors Superfluous?
The Arlington Central School District sends out a newsletter every now and again — oddly enough around budget season. This time it includes a piece titled...
A Little Less Help, Please
For those of you not paying attention, fuel costs are up. This change in circumstances changes the calculation of which mode of operation is optimal. In the cas...
Compulsory Education
via Arnold Kling, we learn that the State of California does not like home-schooling by parents who are not also teachers, on the assumption that certification ...
The Good Shepherd vs. The Beast
Today’s readings speak of God and Jesus as our shepherd. We’re most familiar with this metaphor in Psalm 23: The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not wa...
I Spent My Last $10 on Birth Control, and Beer
The bagel shop is raising prices. The pizza place is raising prices. And a six-pack of my favorite beer has just passed $10 at the grocer. What, you may ask, am...
Encoding Meaning
I experienced a homograph attack on my productivity today, courtesy of Microsoft Word. This character, pasted here (–), looks like a hyphen, but it’s no...
You Made Your Bed, Now Lie in It
I read Joel Spolsky’s “Martian Headsets” post a while back, in which he discusses Microsoft’s about-face with regards to Internet Explor...
Low Opinion of the Press?
Would you like your opinion of the Fourth Estate lowered further? Thought it couldn’t get any worse? Suspect that journalists on deadline have less scrupl...
Yoo Hoo! Cato! Over Here!
I’m surprised that Cato hasn’t mentioned the stink around the latest memorandum from John Yoo [part 1, part 2]. Perhaps they are as shocked, shocked...
Superluser
I’ve been running without root access to systems for nigh on two years now, and I must say that it is very annoying, even with sudo in order to start some...
Spain’s Forests
In the movie Elizabeth, Phillip II remarks that he has sacrificed Spain’s forests in order to build his fleet. That’s an interesting remark, and I w...