Category Archives: Housekeeping

Little to no blogging this weekend. I’ll be at an IHS/Liberty Fund conference on F.A. Hayek‘s ideas. It’s going to be a treat.

Back in action on Monday.

If WordPress’ statistics are right, this is the 500th post here at Inertia Wins. This blog has changed quite a bit since I started it in 2005. Mostly for the better, I hope. Last month’s redesign has gotten a lot of positive feedback, and the traffic has well exceeded my expectations (tell your friends!). The new About and Publications sections are handy additions. More new features are on the way.

I also thought I’d take this opportunity to look back at a few of this blog’s highlights. Hopefully old readers and new will find something to enjoy.

-In one of my first posts, 2005’s “Is This Grounds for Pessimism?“, I recount one of my many learning experiences on Capitol Hill.

-A quick look through the category “The Partisan Mind” should dispel the notion that I am a Democratic or Republican party hack. I’ve been accused of being both over the years.

-For my views on executive power, soured by the experiences of the Bush and Clinton years, see “Why Good Men Don’t Become President Anymore,” written on the day of President Obama’s inauguration.

-Echoes of Mencken in one of my favorite lines I’ve ever written. The post was in response a comparison of the presidency to a monarchy: “Presidents are unremarkable creatures. Borne of much talent for campaigning and little for governing, more love for power than for principle, and the unyielding belief that they know best, presidents have the worst kind of hubris. This is perhaps their only regal trait.” The whole post is here.

-Channeling Charles Darwin, the French Enlightenment, and Austrian-school views on consumer sovereignty, I explain why most news coverage is shallow and overly pessimistic.

-I remain particularly proud of this letter to the editor from 2007, even though it was never published.

-On Earth Day of 2008, I explain what has become known around the office as my certainty principle.

-And finally, my ongoing Regulation of the Day feature. 75 dumb rules and counting.

More to come on all those fronts and more. Much more. Thanks for reading.

Welcome to the new version of Inertia Wins.

Not only does the site have its own .com now, but the layout looks much better. All the posts from the old site have been migrated over to this one, dating back to 2005.

The redesign is still a work in progress, and your comments and suggestions are welcome. If you like what you read, I hope you’ll check back often. If you use an RSS reader, please subscribe. I’ll keep this post bumped to the top of the page until all the changes are settled in. Thanks.

-Mgmt.

Regular blogging will resume now that I’m back from vacation.

Also keep an eye out for some changes to this site in the next few weeks.

This humble blog has survived to its 200th post. My sincerest thanks to both of my readers for making it all worthwhile.

For the next week, I will be in the frozen moonscape of my native Wisconsin. Instead of blogging, I will be delighting in the company of family and friends, neither of whom I get to see nearly enough.

Back in action next week.

-Mgmt.

Not that the blogosphere has noticed, but this blog has fallen silent these last few months. Grad school has a way of occupying time that could be spent blogging. But I’ll chime in as my studies permit.

I’m back home from a vacation. It was a refreshing week of no internet, no email, and no news. Regular blogging will resume shortly, when I finish playing catch-up.