Tag Archives: Matthew Yglesias

Arbitrary Tyranny

I came upon this concept while reading Matthew Yglesias’ Moneybox blog on Slate.  The post detailed, in particular, how condo rules were used to harass journalist Glenn Greenwald, ostensibly because his dog was bigger than condo rules allowed, but more than likely because Greenwald and his partner are gay. Yglesias wrote: …the general way condominium associations […]

In five years everybody will have a smart phone

I found this through Matthew Yglesias’ Moneybox blog, again from Slate (which you may notice is one of my favorite reads). Mr. Horace Dediu reports that over half of U.S. households now have smartphones.  There is a graph showing that it has taken smartphones less than 10 years to reach this level of penetration. Mr. Dediu […]