Pun Salad

The reason he had to turn his hearing aid on at that debate is because those fucking animals [that would be the North Vietnamese, not Quayle and Gore] knocked his eardrums out when he wouldn't spill his guts. He teaches philosophy at Stanford University, he's a brilliant, sensitive, courageous man. And yet he committed the one unpardonable sin in our culture: he was bad on television. Somewhere out there Paddy Chayefsky must be laughing his ass off.

And Jacob Sullum muses on the new surge to treat "obesity" as a public health issue necessitating that government "do something" about it.

Let's just reflect on whether we want to accept the proposition that everyone's unhealthy habits are everyone else's business. Contrary to Krugman's implication, one needn't be a "blind ideologue" to worry about living in a world governed by that principle.

Prohibition really is a slippery slope; Sullum deserves much credit for doing far more than his part to try to push us back up the hill.

This is why I remain optimistic that voucher opponents will eventually fail. All the hypothetical gloom and doom in the world cannot stack up against the real difference that vouchers have made for students in terrible schools.

Infected men, suggests one new study, tend to become more aggressive, scruffy, antisocial and are less attractive. Women, on the other hand, appear to exhibit the "sex kitten" effect, becoming less trustworthy, more desirable, fun-loving and possibly more promiscuous.

So, sort of a mixed bag then. (Via Instapundit.) Damn cats.