Shifting Gears

Reductio was named Conservative Site of the Day today by Enter Stage Right.

That's cool.

I guess the secret's out that it's a conservative site, eh? Not that it was much of a secret. But it's intended to be thoughtfully conservative. I hope that part isn't a secret either.

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Switching gears entirely -- I think 24 is going to give me a heart attack before it's done. That is a very intense show, and another very intense episode tonight.

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Shifting gears one last time tonight -- Jeff Jarvis has discovered that he doesn't like the lottery very much.

It reminded me of a discussion I had with a very capitalist friend in grad school ages ago. That friend, whom there's no need to name, actually loved lotteries. He argued that in an age in which progressive taxation was used to effect distribution of wealth from rich to poor, the lottery acted as a great regressive tax, since it is played predominantly by the less affluent. Needless to say, my friend would not be considered a compassionate conservative.

Another friend of mine, just as capitalist but more libertarian, actually said no -- that's not very good reasoning, because the lottery actually acts as a tax on dreams. And that's not a very nice thing.

[Posted at 21:12 CST on 04/16/02] [Link]