Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Obama nominating hardcore Nanny Statist to head up the CDC. The guy enthusiastically backed the trans-fat, smoking bans and calorie count requirements in New York.
Canada’s economy getting freer, may soon be freer than the U.S. Might explain something about why they’re handling the recession better than we are.
Speaking of Canadians, police in Montreal recently handcuffed and arrested a woman for not holding on to the handrail while riding on an escalator.
New biography tries to unlock the mystery of Tom Waits. I never understood why he switched to the gruffer sound after Heat of Saturday Night and Closing Time. Or at least why he never went back.
Dr. Roger Weiner, a Mississippi cardiologist who has been an outspoken critic of Dr. Steven Hayne, is under federal indictment for violations of the Mann Act. Federal agents were posing as prostitutes in Tennessee when Weiner allegedly invited them to Mississippi to engage in sex in exchange for money. None of the women Weiner propositioned appear to have been minors. So instead of investigating Hayne’s 20 years of corrupting Mississippi’s criminal justice system, the feds down there have been spending taxpayer resources investigating and charging one of his critics for paying consenting adult women to provide him with some companionship. Nice to know where the feds’ priorities are.