Category Archives: Housekeeping

It’s year-end list season, so here are this year’s ten most popular posts:

1. Regulation of the Day 221: Miniature Golf Courses
   Federal mini golf policy is surprisingly detailed.
2. Regulation of the Day 212: Locating Your Newsstand
   New York City newsstand shut down for being located 4 inches too close to the curb.
3. Hurricane Sandy Begins
   Probably only made the list because of the awesome picture.
4. Regulation of the Day 91: Horse Floaters
   Rent-seeking veterinarians use regulation to put a long-time competitor out of business.
5. Stubbs for Mayor
   Fifteen years ago, a tail-less kitten named Stubbs was elected mayor of an Alaskan town. He’s still in office, and doing a fine job.
6. Lessons in Entrepreneurship: Lemonade Stand Edition
   Regulators continue to shut down kids’ lemonade stands, despite inevitable bad publicity.
7. A Rational View of the Presidency
   Short writeup of Gene Healy’s excellent new e-book, False Idol.
8. Regulation of the Day 223: Fred Flintstone Cars
   German auto engineer makes replica Fred Flintstone car; regulators forbid him to drive it.
9. Regulation of the Day 129: Droves of Animals on Streets
   Under DC law, it is perfectly legal to herd cattle down K Street and Pennsylvania Avenue — if you follow certain old-timey regulations.
10. Regulation of the Day 150: Toy Guns
    8-year old boy suspended from school for two years for bringing a toy gun to school.

This image might be faked. Not sure at this point.

The Eastern seaboard’s economy is being stimulated by Hurricane Sandy right now. Just thought I’d post a quick note to let everyone know that all is well so far at the DC-area Inertia Wins HQ. The schools, government, and subway are all shut down, and probably will be through tomorrow.

Mrs. Inertia and I are hunkering down and staying safe. We encourage East Coast readers to do the same.

September isn’t quite over, but it’s already been a record month for traffic at this blog, and by a convincing margin. Thanks for visiting, and tell your friends.

-Mgmt.

I’ll be out of town on vacation for a few days, so light blogging ahead. I’ve scheduled a few posts to appear while I’m out, but that’ll be about it.

Regular blogging resumes on Wednesday.

This is a test post from my iPad.

Sometime last night, and for the third time in four months, this blog set a record for monthly traffic.

Thanks for reading, and tell your friends.

Some time last night, this month became this blog’s most-trafficked month, knocking January 2012 from its lofty perch.

Thanks for reading, and tell your friends.

Sometime last night, this became the most-trafficked month in this blog’s six-year history. And it’s only the 26th. Thanks to all for reading.

I’ll be live-blogging tonight’s State of the Union address for OpenMarket.org, CEI’s blog. Coverage will start around 8:30 PM EST. Click here to follow along.

I’ll paste the post over to this blog sometime after the event.