Word: magical
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Previous campaign reforms have failed not because they lack a magic ingredient, some legislative abracadabra, but because as long as the government wields extensive power to tax, spend, and regulate, interest groups will try to influence its actions. It’s not clear what proportion of campaign contributions are motivated by such rent-seeking (and therefore whether this is really a big problem), but unless we eviscerate the First Amendment or shrink the government, money is here to stay...
...games with how much came in and how much went out, he can't stop himself from doing it again. In The Triumph of Politics, he describes two tricks the Reaganites (including himself) used to deceive the public about the fiscal condition of the U.S. government. One was the "magic asterisk," used to bury wishful-thinking revenue assumptions in the footnotes, where it was hoped that nobody would discover them. This is essentially similar to the "round trip" loans described in Stockman's indictment last week. Then there is Rosy Scenario, a Cassandra in reverse, who gets carted...
...busy, bubbling kitchen, the young Scottish chef-patron Dan Hall brews up the magic that lifts the Casablanca well beyond a haunt for expats with creative pretensions to a place of pilgrimage for true foodies. A dish like slow-roasted fillet of Wagyu beef with roasted veal sweetbreads, caramelized carrot purée and a sherry vinegar gastrique may be a mouthful to order, but every bite confirms the brilliance of its conception. Plainer fare such as wild mushroom arancini with leek purée, white asparagus emulsion and cep vinaigrette showcase the intense flavors of locally grown vegetables. Hall...
...tales are an inspiration for Boontje's Table Stories collection, the results are anything but Grimm. The in-demand Dutchman, whose studio is in Bourg-Argental, France, has created delightfully florid underglaze prints that will charm even your grouchiest guest. With such fantastical forest creatures hiding beneath your food, magic at mealtimes is guaranteed. www.authentics.de...
...constraints of the solar system prevent the days from getting longer, can’t we all just sleep less? Caffeine has been working its magic for decades; science has now brought us Modafinil—what next? Hopefully the complete elimination of sleep. As Gustav Graves says in Die Another Day, you can sleep when you’re dead. Now that’s efficiency. God bless modernity. And economics...