Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Daily Link Dump - August 7, 2012

The Dumbest Presidential Election Ever™ keeps earning that status.

A beautiful screed against blind partisanship from a leftist who refuses to support Obama just because he's the lesser of two evils. I haven't read the Robert Parry pieces that inspired this, but one does summarize itself with this phrase: "We need to [be] realistic about elections and stop using them as opportunities to express... personal morality." I can't think of a sentence more reflecting of what's wrong with the partisan mind.

New Orleans zoning laws are being used to kill live music all over the city.

Marvin Hamlisch has died. He composed the music to my favorite Bond song:



The government is here to protect you.

The Louisiana Budget Project is claiming that the state's film subsidies cost the state $231 million last year. I'm a little hesitant to take that number at face value. If this number is reached by assuming what these films would have paid in taxes minus the credits, then I have my only problem with the program is that it's targeted at the film industry. Government shouldn't play favorites. That said, if any of that money was actually paid to film companies because their Louisiana tax bill was less than the credit, then that needs to be ended post haste. I am warm to the idea of the transferability of the credits, though. More here and here

Warner Bros. has decided The Great Gatsby in 3D would make great summer fare.

Obamacare continues to be a completely unworkable piece of legislation that is causing the IRS to illegally rewrite legislation in order to implement many of its provisions.

If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to worry about.

Some rich, white men upset that some women are breaking their cartel.

Wayne Allyn Root looks to set the Libertarian Party back ten years. Of course, there is the LNCC and then there's the LNC.

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