Health

The free market could deal more effectively with contagious diseases, just as it beats the government when it comes to computers, cars, and crops.

If it does not say US, it is not 100% American catfish, or so says the Catfish

The market for tools, the market for meat: both were

There are things you can do to help mitigate the shortage of transplantable organs such as kidneys.

Joe Kissell at Interesting Thing of the Day does a little investigation to try to piece together

I am fearful of a government-run, centralized healthcare system staffed by a unionized workforce. I dream of the entrepreneurs of that age who will be working to exhaustion in order to satisfy the dreams of the ever-distant horizon of consumer wants. What a wonderful world that will be.

Sometimes the regular news reads just like The Onion

Many churches during the season of Lent hold a “hunger banquet” to illustrate the problem of poverty in the developing world.

Mystery solved. I first heard about the deadly flu pandemic of 1918 in an obscure blues song from that era.

Programs such as welfare, unemployment insurance, and government-provided healthcare and insurance all must go. The job market provides a great incentive to not abuse drugs.