As many of you know, I got married last week. Tonight, Mrs. Inertia and I are flying to Spain for our honeymoon. Readers with sightseeing or restaurant tips are encouraged to leave their suggestions in the comments section.
I scheduled a few posts to run while we’re gone. But regular blogging won’t resume until April 12.
Until then — courage.
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Posted in Housekeeping
Baseball is back! Here’s hoping my Brewers end their season the same way the Packers ended theirs — with a Super Bowl victory.
The most entertaining part of following the Brewers is Bob Uecker, their radio announcer. He had two heart surgeries last year and missed a large chunk of the season. But he’s feeling much better now, and is still cracking jokes.
The Wall Street Journal profiled him today. It’s worth a read. Note that the article describes his partner in the booth, Cory Provus, as his straight man; one hears a lot more than baseball when Uecker calls a game.
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Tagged bob uecker, brewers, milwaukee, mlb, opening day
HHS is about to issue over 1,000 pages of new regulations stemming from last year’s health care bill. That’s not a huge surprise, considering the bill is about 2,000 pages long.
But these regulations all come from a 6-page section covering accountable care organizations, or ACOs.
According to Politico, John Gorman, who runs a health care consulting firm, “expects a 1,000-page rule to come out on Thursday, March 31—because he doesn’t think HHS will want to deal with releasing the regulations on April Fool’s Day.”
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Tagged accountable care organizations, aco, Antitrust, gorman health group, hcr, Health Care, health care bill, health care reform, john gorman, regulation
One wonders just how many regulations this rogue basketball hoop violated in the 60 years it spent terrorizing an unsuspecting Delaware neighborhood.
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Tagged basketball hoop, delaware dot, deldot, delware, regulators gone wild, zoning, zoning regulations
Chris Preble explains the five basic rules for going to war. Libya fails on at least four of them.
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Posted in International
Tagged cato, chris preble, christopher preble, libya, libya war, war, weinberger/powell doctrine
“I have decided to repeat George Bush’s mistakes.”
Posted in International
Tagged foreign policy, libya, libya speech, middle east, obama, president obama
Human Achievement Hour founder Michelle Minton talks about the annual celebration of human creativity and innovation that happens at the same time every year as Earth Hour. Ecology and economy are quite compatible. One definition of progress, after all, is doing more with less. When people are left free to achieve and innovate, that is exactly what happens, to the environment’s benefit — and mankind’s.
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Posted in CEI Podcast, Technology, The New Religion
Tagged accomplishment, achievement, Earth Hour, ecology, economy, environment, environmentalism, Human Achievement Hour, innovation, michelle minton, optimism, progress
I’m getting married this weekend. So for the next few days, I’ll have other, better things to do than blog. My thanks to all who have sent their good wishes. It means a lot.
Regular blogging will resume on Monday.
-Mgmt.
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CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman talks about how ever-stricter energy efficiency regulations are making washing machines more expensive and less effective than they used to be. Sam recently wrote about the issue for The Wall Street Journal; you can read his article here.
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Posted in CEI Podcast, regulation, The New Religion
Tagged "Sam Kazman", energy efficiency, energy efficient washers, energy efficient washing machines, environmental regulations, wall street journal, wsj
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Inertia Wins! 
