Morning Matters

• Detroit’s 30-year disaster. Bob Jones University offers non-apology for its ugly history of racism. “Sorry we were like everyone else” just ain’t gonna’ cut it. Especially when you weren’t.
• Mexico’s former drug czar took $450,000 per month in bribes from drug traffickers. Yet we keep the spigot of drug war foreign aid flowing.
• You know the economy’s on the skids when Wall Street barons can’t afford to buy gifts for their mistresses.
• Minnesota public radio has a fun web feature where you can judge some of the disputed ballots in the Coleman/Franken Senate race recount.
• Scientists discover grape-sized single-celled organism.
• This is pretty cute.
• Here’s a local news report on Mike Bowers, one of the good guys in forensic science who’s trying rid the courts of the frauds. Bowers has in the past helped debunk the “expertise” of Mississippi’s Dr. Michael West.
• TSA’s fancy new “behavior detection” technology has a 99 percent error rate.
  
• In observance of World Toilet Day, experts are calling for an end to . . . wait, there’s a “World Toilet Day?"
• Ilya Somin says libertarians should quit party politics. I’m inclined to agree. It’s nice to have an (unviable) option on election day, but I think libertarians would do better to form issue-specific alliances, and form PACs to support candidates on those issues. There is, not-unreasonable chance that we could get a libertarian president in our lifetime, but it won’t be through the Libertarian Party, nor will it come from either of the two major parties. If it happens, it’ll be an independent, probably self-funded candidate–probably someone from the business world–who swoops in Ross Perot-style to exploit voter disaffection with the existing candidates.

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