- “Copyright Troll’s Tech ‘Experts’ Can Apparently Detect Infringement Before It Happens” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt] “Judge Alsup Threatens To Block Malibu Media From Any More Copyright Trolling In Northern California” [Mike Masnick, same]
- “The Truth About Seattle’s Proposed Soda Tax and its Ilk” [Baylen Linnekin quoting my piece on the Howard County, Maryland campaign against soft drinks; my related on Philadelphia soda tax] Update: measure passes;
- “Judge calls attorney a ‘lowlife’ in tossing defamation suit, says ‘truth is an absolute defense'” [Julia Marsh, New York Post]
- Rent control in Mumbai, as closer to home, brings strife, litigiousness, and crumbling housing stock [Alex Tabarrok] “How Germany Made Rent Control ‘Work'” [Kristian Niemietz, FEE]
- Together with Judge Alex Williams, Jr., I wrote an op-ed for the Baltimore Sun on the Maryland legislature’s misbegotten scheme to require a six-state compact before fixing its gerrymander-prone redistricting system;
- Inefficient land title recording leaves billions on table, but lawmakers show scant interest in reform [Arnold Kling]
Filed under: copyright, Germany, India, landlord tenant law, libel slander and defamation, Maryland, real estate, redistricting reform, Seattle, soft drinks
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Soda Tax
It used to be keeping up with the Joneses. Now we’re finding it tough to keep up with the progressives. The soda tax passed overwhelmingly on Monday, 7 to 1. It would have been 8 to 1 but council member Kshama Sawant was absent; presumably working on her new dragnet to get landlords to do more work for the party:
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/pay-deposit-rent-truck-register-to-vote-kshama-sawant-plan-would-have-landlords-give-voter-info-to-new-renters/
Soda is being taxed extra, but on the other hand, purveyors of Stupid Pills have found a fertile market demographic in the Seattle City Council.
I am so glad that I am beyond their reach – for now.