Lynne Kiesling Upon reflection, I think I may have been a little too harsh on Justice Souter, given that the transcripts are not out yet. He may have been referring to “you” as the state of New York getting ripped off on tax revenues. I stand by my claim, though, that patronizing paternalism is one …
Lynne Kiesling As Mike mentioned, we are headed to Pittsburgh next week to participate in an electricity transmission conference at Carnegie-Mellon University. I’m thrilled, in part because the conference looks exciting and in part because I’m from Pittsburgh, and I love goin’ home. Pittsburgh is one of the most fascinating places I can imagine, particularly …
Lynne Kiesling For more on the Supreme Court’s hearing of oral arguments in the interstate wine shipment case, please see Todd Zywicki’s handicapping of how the Justices are likely to vote, and Dahlia Lithwick’s Slate column that offers a spirited and heady summary of yesterday’s arguments. The one that really chaps my shorts is this …
Lynne Kiesling I am glad to see from Virginia Postrel’s recent post that Mark Edmundson is being introduced to Hayek, albeit at perhaps a later stage in his lifelong education than may be befitting the power and importance of Hayek’s ideas. However, I must pick one nit that always grates on me when I see …
Lynne Kiesling Well, I must have crossed to the dark side too, because I would have like to attended the FERC technical conference today that Mike mentioned in his post below. However, since I couldn’t do so, as a substitute I offer this Reason Public Policy Institute study that Adrian Moore and I wrote on …
Michael Giberson In other FERC news, Platt’s is reporting that Chairman Pat Wood said the Commission would soon approve a policy statement to encourage transmission owners to either join regional transmission operators or completely divest their transmission to a third party. Wood told Platts Monday that the agency at its Dec 15 open meeting will …
Michael Giberson Maybe it is a sign that I have a warped soul, or perhaps I have gone over to the dark side. Whatever. In any case, what sounds really interesting and fun to do today would be attending a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission technical conference on Transmission Market Power and Barriers to Entry. Alas, …
Lynne Kiesling The Supreme Court is hearing the interstate wine shipment case today. Two widely-read newspapers opine on the matter, and both agree: free the grapes! From the USA Today: The wine issue is not just a narrow legal one, but part of a broad pattern of state laws designed to shield well-connected industries from …
Lynne Kiesling My friend Adam over at Arthur’s Seat has announced the first annual Clerihew competition. Please click through for full details, but the bottom line is a 4-line poem with two rhyming couplets. Entries to be accepted through 20 December. This will be fun! Diane, you know what you need to do …
Lynne Kiesling Tim Worstall has a very entertaining post on a UK patent application. For those of you who, like me, thrive on dry British wit, do make sure to click through to the .pdf of the deputy patent examiner’s response to this particular application, which appears to be a wooly attempt to claim prior …
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