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I put this here for my friends who refuse to join Facebook (where I previously put it). There’s always that 2%.

My wife and I just saw the Pink House movie. Excellent. You have to go to one of those artsy theaters to see it. It is the story of the infamous Kelo v. City of New London Supreme Court decision. Institute of Justice case My wife wanted to see it because we give to the Institute of Justice. It was one of their cases. I wanted to see it because I write about real estate investment. Forced out of her home The case said governments could seize people’s homes for the purpose of selling the homes to a private corporation based...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a classic example of a negative pregnant in his Congressional testimony. He was asked about a Facebook executive trying to hire Obama digital campaign workers after the 2012 election. The exec told the Obama people that they saw that they were misusing private information, but that they did not stop them because Facebook was “on Obama’s side.”   Zuckerberg rushed to fire back an obviously rehearsed answer. He said Obama developers did not get any more access to privacy data than anyone else, or words to that effect. I could not find the exact quote...

I went to a Giants game yesterday with a college classmate. Several players on each team took their leads from first base several feet back off the baseline from first to second. That is incorrect. Others lined up ON that baseline, which is correct..The best practice is you line up right on the base line between first and second always because there is always a force out at second on a runner at first base. And you do the same if you are a runner at second base, but only if there is a runner also on first because that creates...