Boyd

Hardin:

Harvest time in western North Carolina has always been the busiest time of the year. That means long workdays and sippin' something on the front porch at night. That means the traffic slows, and the tourists go home and the fiddles start playing and people start getting ready for fall.

WTF? Might mean sippin' something out of the desk drawer during the day too.

If you're innocent, don't plead guilty.

And if you're going to get busted for lewd conduct, make it about more than hand signals.

Seriously, anybody else concerned with cops getting to interpret hand signals and toe tapping? What's so hard about waiting to hear the solicitation?

Evans-Pritchard and Essen:

Jean-Pierre Roth, president of the Swiss National Bank, said market turmoil was far from over as tremors from the sub-prime debacle continued to rock the world.

"We're certainly not at the end of the story. There are question marks surrounding the development of the American economy," he said. "Something unbelievable happened. People who had neither income nor capital got credit with very attractive conditions. Now reality is striking back," he said.

Lohr:

“Hopefully, they will make it harder for people to buy houses in the long run,” Mr. Cossette said. “Maybe others can learn from this.”

Or maybe they can be smart enough to figure it out for themselves beforehand like Caserta. Let's not go out and limit everyone else's options just because you screwed up.

Same goes for lenders too. For those buying CMOs, there's a reason the rates are higher.

First, I was an Eddie guy. Then, I was a Dave guy. Now, I'm a Sammy guy. He's the only one of the bunch I can imagine spending more than five minutes with and not be bored out of my mind.

Benson:

...state recognition of property rights is required to achieve the most efficient use of resources, but only because the state is the primary threat to those rights.

Somin:

...politicians can appease voters angry about Kelo by passing laws to "reverse" it, while simultaneously avoiding the ire of development interests by not giving those laws teeth.

Franken:

"Where man is not, nature is barren."

I was explaining this to somebody the other day following her question of whether or not I was "concerned about environmental issues". To be sure, nature has always interested me on the very basic levels of aesthetic appreciation--the delicious solitude of the desert, the sanctuary of the Redwoods, the environmental lessons one can learn from a trip to the Monterey or Seattle aquariums. This is nothing, however, compared to the reverence I feel for the historical achievements of mankind. Blasphemy though it may be, I still find the Industrial Revolution infinitely more fascinating than the budding Green Earth Revolution. In much the same way I feel about the island of Manhattan compared to a Rainbow Gathering. New York is natural. A Rainbow Gathering or a Burning Man, on the other hand, is unnatural. One is a city that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week--a natural outgrowth of the natural progress of human civilization. The other is a patch of desert that you have to pay a lot of money to get into so you can be natural for a prescribed amount of time until it's all over and you go back home to your "unnatural" cities and your "unnatural" jobs to make your "unnatural" money.

Bailey:

...productivity flourishes when people are free, safe, and justly treated. Dahl calls this the framework for prosperity.