Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs

The random musings of a Nashville engineer on anything at all

Saturday, February 27, 2016

Just what is free market health care, anyway?

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Health care consumes resources. In a free market system, health care would be contract-based like every other free-market system. Resources ...
Saturday, February 20, 2016

Mosquito-Borne Illness: Save the Doggies

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I've talked before about mosquito-borne illnesses . Mosquitoes kill over a million people every year. We could kill all the mosquitoes...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Bet you don't understand socialism

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I've seen a large number of posts about Bernie Sanders, most of which show a distressing lack of understanding. I'm not some hardcor...
Sunday, January 3, 2016

Sanders vs. Tocqueville, Round One: FIGHT!

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This is an expansion of my response to this article in a discussion with a friend. Looking through Sanders’ speech, one can’t help but ...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Arguments for Empire

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Warning: the below is very imprecise. I'm going to be talking about "Europe" as if it's a single entity. It's clearly ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

2016 Presidential Candidates: Republicans, Part 2

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Rick Perry Rick Perry is presently the governor of Texas. Much of the below is about his record in that position, as well as statements h...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Reducing Wrongful Convictions: Better Juries

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The most critical means of reducing wrongful convictions is to have better juries. When you consider being summoned for jury duty , what is ...
Friday, July 10, 2015

Reducing Wrongful Convictions: Better Public Defense

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The Bill of Rights guarantees you a right to a lawyer when you're on trial, even if you can't afford one . Unfortunately, the law...
Saturday, July 4, 2015

Patriotism

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I found myself listening to cable news today. I appreciated the music, and people telling what they loved about America. I appreciated that ...
Friday, July 3, 2015

Reducing Wrongful Convictions: False Guilty Pleas

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Why would someone plead guilty if they're not? Plea bargaining. In a plea bargain, the state tells an accused person "You are goi...
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