Shotgun Blogging

In which I fire a bunch of links and thoughts out there and see what I can hit:

>Von Mises Explains Imus:

Who, dear temporary Leftie, will the good old boy corporate network back - the wealthy white guy or working class black girls?

Surprise, they chose the girls. Why? Because of something called 'consumer sovereignty,' the doctrine preached by the great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, which holds that, in the end, consumers, not corporations, control the marketplace. MSNBC and CBS did what the market told them to do.

>I'm telling you, sweater vests are an underrated part of every dude's wardrobe. Mrs. See-dub must think so because she keeps buying them for me, and also because I got a compliment from another female type on mine the other day. I think this is because they're slimming, and they project that aura of "decent father, good provider, but fairly stable and not at all likely to run off to Coral Gables with an executive assistant in marketing named Candy, although conceivably so with one named Max".

Sweater vests: chicks dig 'em.

(Hmmm...maybe Mrs. SeeDub's being...strategic...)

>Here's a lovely catch at 6MB: A good ol' boy state legislator in Tennessee--someone I picture in the Gene Stipe model--clams up and invokes the procedural equivalent of the Fifth Amendment when asked about illegal Mexican labor on his cotton gin. He doesn't know for sure that they're illegal, is the crux of his argument, though it doesn't sound like he's checking ID's too closely. And whether he's filing I-9s on these guys, I am in some doubt.

Exploitative, unreported hiring. Southern Democrats. Cotton Gin. This is sounding familiar.

>Another good catch by RightWingSparkle at Innocent Bystanders, who follows the money on the LiveEarth concerts.

>And Strongbad mentions bloggers in this SBemailfrom work--and wonders how we get away with it, especially since the company installed a firewall on his imagination. (Warning--link goes to video with sound.)

I am also amused by this Knife Safety PSA, which gets a little off track. Not that there's anything wrong with that.