Pay-If-You-Go Prisons?
Inspired by Bernie Madoff’s 150-year prison sentence, New York state assemblyman Jim Tedesco introduced a bill that, as the Economist reports, would establish a “pay-if-you-go” model for prisons, whereby wealthy inmates pay for their own incarceration costs, thereby easing the burden on taxpayers. Read More »
New York City Without Its Subway …
… would probably be dotted with parking lots the size of Greenwich Village in order to accommodate all the daily commuters driving into the city on the equivalent of 84 Queens Midtown Tunnels, predicts Michael Frumin at the Frumination blog. Read More »
The Difference Between a "B" and a "B"-Plus
Kvetch, kvetch, kvetch. Classes start in three weeks, and the bosses have mandated a revolution at UT-Austin: We can no longer give only A, B, C grades, but must give +/- grades too, such as A, A-, B+, etc. With 600 students this Fall, I can imagine a big change in griping. Read More »
FREAK Shots: Far-Flung Nuts
So does this make you want to go locavore, since so much fuel was likely used in transporting them around the globe, and maybe they’re not the freshest almonds? Read More »
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