Since I don’t want to actually publicly engage with Matt Yglesias or his fellow subscribers, and I keep talking myself out of my one-to-five rating system, it turns out what I do instead is discuss some of his articles at length with one of my brothers, where one of us takes the pro and the other takes the con on a given issue until we find common ground.

That way you don’t have to read the whole conversations that end with one of us saying things like “I would love to live in a world where housing permits were like gun permits: shall-issue rather than may-issue.”

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Every now and again I think that it would be fun to post a semi-regular roundup of ideas proposed by Matt Yglesias, along with my level of agreement or disagreement. Not in terms of arguing the details, just a simple expression of agreement or disagreement. Maybe on a one to five scale.

But then I slap myself in the face and tell myself to do something more useful with my time, like count the bristles on my toothbrush, or polish the fire hydrant in front of my house, or learn how buggy whips were made.

Apropos of nothing, I do tend to think that “American transit agencies should prioritize ridership over other goals.”

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