Happy Earth Day!

Killed two more mice. As I was cutting the sticky traps in two so as not to waste the un-moused section I wondered if it was more sane to cut the mouse in half too or to let it squirm in the glue hanging from my porch. And suffer.

What would daddy do?
He'd take a drink!

Shorter Tyler Cowen: If we have the good economic sense to build shantytowns in New Orleans for the poor peoples to live in, they will make some fun soulful music for us to dance to! It’s like a natural mystic, blowing through the air!

Tyler Cowen is professor of economics at George Mason University and director of the Mercatus Center, which is running a project on post-Katrina reconstruction.