The year of the insurrectionists
This is very much the year of the outsider, and the year in which the establishment machine politicians are rejected by angry voters. Donald Trump is a complete outsider, yet in a series of bruising battles that make up US primaries, he has seen off every single establishment party-machine politician ranged against him. Now there is only one more left against him, and that is Hillary Clinton whom he now faces in November.
She is almost the embodiment of machine politics, and has the misfortune to face a populist outsider in a year when conventional politicians are mistrusted. Furthermore, she is tainted as well as mistrusted, with enough doubts about her probity to dampen her support. The chances must be very high that come November, Donald Trump will be elected the 45th President of the United States.
Write the law around what people already do not what some bureaucrat thinks they ought to be doing
We're very taken by this quote featured at Cafe Hayek:
It's truly amazing what some people will complain about
We find ourselves rather gasping in amazement at this particular complaint:
How excellent! Off you go then
Apparently that difficult problem of what we should do about the British economy has been cracked. All doubt resolved, we've now got a plan. To which our answer is great, how excellent!
The oddity of closing the Tiger Temple
That we'd like the tiger to survive as a species is true: magnificent beings that they are. Which is why it's so odd that the authorities are closing down that Thai temple which breeds and keeps tigers:
Organic food is worse for the environment
Not that this should be much of a surprise to anyone but nice to see it confirmed again. Organic food is worse for the environment than conventionally farmed.