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Month: April 2020

I Was Wrong About A Thing: More On Social Distancing

arkady2020-04-13I Was Wrong

So It turns out I was even wronger in I Was Wrong About A Thing: There Was Still Room For Distancing To Improve Things, since I said there that we wouldn’t get better than .08% with fevers. We had 3…

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Standing: An Excuse To Sit It Out

arkady2020-04-10Law

“Standing” is a legal concept that lets a court decide who should and should not be allowed to bring a case. It’s gotten pretty bad. The fundamental idea is OK: you have to have some kind of rule to say…

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Clean Slates: Dealing With Legalization

arkady2020-04-09Law

If the arc of history bends towards freedom, we should probably decide what to about all those people who were convicted in the past for things that are legal now. Legalization is an admission that the old law was wrong.…

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“Procedural Error”: The Latest Synonym For “Breaking The Law”

arkady2020-04-08Law

So here we go again with there being no law that will be allowed to constrain the government. It’s a small, local matter. But one that has its parallells all the way up to the federal governernment. I encountered it…

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Firing Inspectors: Exposing The Weakness In The System

arkady2020-04-07Law

Trump’s been busy in the last few days, demonstrating the weakness in the United States’ “Inspector General” model of Executive oversight; for the details see Trump Firing Intelligence IG For Doing His Job? Sure, Why Not? and more recently Fired…

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I Was Wrong About A Thing: There Was Still Room For Distancing To Improve Things

arkady2020-04-06I Was Wrong

So it turns out I was wrong in Flatline: This Level Of Social Distancing Has Reached Its Floor to say that we’d probably bottomed out the benefits of the current level of social distancing here in Sonoma County. Quite wrong,…

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Flatline: This Level Of Social Distancing Has Reached Its Floor

arkady2020-04-03Culture

So, as I’ve pointed out a few times, our “social distancing” efforts are working. And they’re pretty much the only thing that will work in this situation. But it’s likely that we’re reaching the limit of how much they’ll work.…

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You Should Read This: Richard Epstein Is Wrong About All The Things

arkady2020-04-02Read This

Isaac Chotiner at The New Yorker interviews the dude who seems to have started the “won’t someone think of the economy!” freakout amongst the current Presidential administration. It does not go well. At least, not for Epstein; it goes swimmingly…

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Rules: Some People Think They Don’t Apply To The Folks Who Make Them

arkady2020-04-01Law

Now, I am kinda annoyed about this: Sonoma County emergency management director disregards coronavirus shelter-in-place order, takes family to beach. That’s not a good look, Chris. To be fair to him, his statement on the matter is pretty good: “I…

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