Kudzu, everyone knows, is a perennial vine native to much of eastern Asia that destroys growth by wrapping itself around native plants and trees and shadowing them so that they do not receive the proper sunlight to grow and flourish. Unnecessary regulatory schemes are to the economy what Kudzu is to vegetation. The operative political rule should be – less is better. The COVID-19 virus, which for inexplicable reasons has resulted in a shortage of toilet paper on grocery shelves, will have long-lasting effects. Thankfully, grocery shelves empty of toilet paper will not be one of them. The shelves have been emptied by hoarders and not by an interruption in the supply chain. So, at some time in the future, when hoarders have had their fill of toilet paper, we may expect the bare shelves to be sagging with rolls and rolls and rolls of the precious product. At some time in the future COVID-19 will itself have petered out. We know this not from any assurances of politicians, th...
go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you;
may your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
--Samuel Adams