September 2009
3 posts
“Wells Fargo became the latest bank to announce a shift in its policy towards...”
– overdraft is not an account holder’s right. it’s a privilege granted by the bank that assumes the risk that you will overdraw your account and actually never pay it back. why can’t banks just tell their clients that, plain and simple, instead of indulging an entitlement attitude?
link: “Wells Fargo...
disrespectable negroes.
I wrote an annoyed comment in response to we are respectable negroes. Their responses annoyed me more, so I wrote this in response:
I don’t know where to start, possibly because I have the sense—though I might be wrong about this—that there’s a great deal of projection involved in both of your responses here. The problem with white supremacy isn’t simply that it...
Thoughts on Libertarianism/Health Care
Jeez, this post ended up being longer than expected.
From Megan McArdle:
There’s another intuition that at least libertarians have, which is that it is not as bad to have undesirable things result from an impersonal process than from an active decision. It is bad if someone’s house burns down and they couldn’t afford insurance. It’s worse if someone’s house burns...