“Popcorn said f*** you”
March 20, 2009 – 12:33 amA little triage: New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson signed a bill to repeal the state’s death penalty. And California Representative Maxine Waters has introduced a bill to end mandatory minimum sentencing for Federal drug offenses.
The Daily Cuts:
152. Eminent domain abuse continues four years after Kelo, but some folks are fighting back. More here from reason’s coverage of eminent domain issues.
153. It’s just no fun being a teenager in Texas.
154. New York state bureaucrats treat “direct-to-consumer” genomics firms as laboratories, burdening them with needless regulations.
155. Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton is my new folk hero. He decided to check out of this world on his own, rather than have the Feds put him in prison for the unpardonable crime of distilling his own moonshine. His tombstone reads “POPCORN SAID FUCK YOU”. Here’s to you, Popcorn.
156. Warren Meyer over at Coyote Blog presents this easy-to-follow checklist on how to start a business . . . in Alabama. The other 49 states may be different.
157. Congress shovels $182.5 billion dollars into the AIG furnace, then heroically recovers 0.09% of it for taxpayers.