Links and Minifeatures 09 10 2007 (Monday)

Victor Davis Hanson on what schools do and do not need.

Best Markets For Landlords

Foreclosures and risky lending have dogged the housing market. As lenders have tightened their standards, attractive mortgages have grown harder to come by. Yet rental fundamentals have remained strong, especially in the 10 areas that made our list of Best Markets for Landlords.

I've only been predicting this for two years now.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Oversalted Burger Leads to Charges. Anyone else would have complained to the manager and gotten a new burger plus maybe a discount on the next one or a freebie. But because it happened to be a cop, the person who made it - and properly informed their supervisor, who made the decision to serve it - gets to spend a night in jail. Does this strike anyone else as police brutality or intimidation? Use of office for personal ends? Or maybe just petty vengeance and abuse of authority, which is something we're trying to weed out. Time for a certain cop to lose his badge.

FYI, as I'm going through fixing the internal links in old posts and adding tags for indexing, for some reason a lot - not all - are re-sending trackbacks. I'm not certain why this is happening on some posts, but I do apologize for it.

My younger daughter turns 3 today. I'm going to try to have a new article for tomorrow, but it might get delayed by the fact Daddy needs to be at the party.