Weekly roundup: August 29 - September 4

Articles

Down with People from Peach Dividend Trust Blog

U.S. tax debate approaches battle over billionaires from National Post

An early chance for the Liberals to show change from The Globe and Mail

The best way to board an airplane from The Washington Post

Forget a merger, try hard work from Toronto Sun

German sex meters can be taxing from The Toronto Star

Private rail car owners enjoy "yachts on tracks" from Washington Post

Lloyd Robertson: A Great Captain of the Ship from CBC.ca

Toronto police association sees promotions as a right from National Post

Tweets

https://twitter.com/#!/normmacdonald/status/107204584056946688

One day home 3D printers will replace manufacturing in the same way that home paper printers have replaced bookbinding.

— Quinn Weaver (@quinnweaver) August 27, 2011

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-08-31T19:47:56.000Z. Bryan Caplan (@bryan_caplan). "If cigarettes have to have pictures of diseased lungs, college brochures should have to have pictures of grads working at Starbucks."-D.Lin.

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-09-01T11:38:27.000Z. Doug Saunders (@DougSaunders). People need to realize: The "no junk mail" sign has the same effect as the big-box retailer. If you support local shops, take their flyers..

The question is not why 1000 cops couldn't stop 150,000 rioters. It's why so many people thought it was a fun idea to wreck their own city.

— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) September 1, 2011

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-09-02T14:20:51.000Z. @mattmight@mathstodon.xyz (@mattmight). For every complex system, there is an explanation of its behavior that is simple, intuitive and wrong..

https://twitter.com/mikepmoffatt/status/109720084242628608

https://twitter.com/#!/subwayshaker/status/110347780131782656

Video

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