Weekend link dump for August 8

School starts in 15 days. Where did summer go?

Ten movies that are smart about being dumb. “The Pink Panther Strikes Again” is one of my all-time favorites.

Three cheers for the resurgent auto industry.

I’m old enough to remember when comparing your political opponents to Hitler was considered outside the bounds of acceptable discourse.

Is using the phone soon to be outdated?

As long as there are small children, there will be printed books.

Poppy and Ahnuld, on a toboggan.

Happy belated 30th anniversary to my favorite local bookstore.

What’s the local maximum for the Laffer Curve? If you don’t know how to find the answer, maybe you shouldn’t be pushing the idea that tax cuts = higher tax revenues.

In case you were wondering, the RIAA still sucks. I know, I’m as shocked as you are.

A teabagger casualty. It’s hard work to make me feel genuinely sympathetic for a guy like Bob Inglis, but boy they sure did it.

So just where do you draw the line between computer and not-computer? Would an iPhone have triggered that reaction from the shop owners?

Good for Jeffrey Goldberg. And good for Mayor Bloomberg and the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission.

I just love being told to learn to live with less by the country’s economic elites.

What were the odds?

Every day, and in every way, John McCain gets maverick-ier and maverick-ier.

He’s also still an economic illiterate.

Defining “constitutional conservative” down.

From the “A fool and his money” department.

When you have nothing to say, you try to say nothing.

I sure hope Dahlia is right.

We could do a lot worse than let kids vote.

But what about the consequences?

Oh. My. God. No, seriously, Oh. My. God.

In case you were wondering, the Senate is still broken. What it will take to fix it is anybody’s guess.

I have the same problem, Kenny.

When Rick met Barry.

Mmm…tomato soup

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