This might be next week’s essay of the week. But if you have the time, you might want to read it now. The question of the hour is who told what and why. You can’t believe anything you read in such articles and yet it might all be true.

From Megan McArdle:“California has come up with a novel way to close this year’s budget gaps: it’s increasing withholding from the paychecks of its citizens.”

You can leave, but you can never talk. What would happen if a church tried to slap such a legal injunction on a pastor?

Lines that make you lose respect for Scientists: “”Early paleontologists recognised the distinction between adults and juveniles, but people have lost track of looking at ontogeny – how the individual develops – when they discover a new fossil.”