THANK YOU for making December the best month ever for Free Refills & Why I Love America. Here are the top posts for the last month:
The graph the New York Times doesn’t want you to see (3rd month on list!) “Safety experts” and paternalistic editorial pages around the country are pushing to ban cell phones [...]
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Your favorite posts from December
Link Roundup [Meat eater edition]
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT: New York City may be famous for its extensive regulations and labyrinthine licensing processes covering just about every aspect of business. But that doesn’t mean New York lets a little bureaucracy get in the way of Christmas. According to the Times, in the 19th century the city passed a special provision that [...]
Link Round-up: [You know it’s bad when you’re worse than Italy edition]
WHO NEEDS COPHENHAGEN; BIG BUSINESS WILL SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT: Though it’s fashionable for the granola types to disparage Big Business, real Americans understand that faceless multi-national companies are one of the things that make America Great. How else would we spread the institutions of free refills and to-go coffee around the globe [...]
Your favorite posts from November
This month saw a surge in search-engine traffic. If you’re a new reader, welcome. I hope you enjoy the site! And if you’ve been reading for a while, THANK YOU and please consider commenting. I love comments—even the combative ones.
That being said, here were your most-read posts from November:
The graph the New York Times doesn’t [...]
British OK with Government surveillance drones, not Google Street View
This probably should have been posted under the “Smug superiority link-roundup” I posed a few hours back, but I just saw it now so it gets its own post.
BIG BROTHER TAKES TO THE AIR: The British are already the most watched people in the world, but it seems that CCTV cams in every doorway, subway [...]
Link Round-up: [Smug superiority edition]
NO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR YOU: We tend to think of the Swiss as rich, progressive, chocolate-eating pacifists. But it turns out that all is not warm and fuzzy in the land of secret bank accounts. Last week, the Swiss passed a constitutional amendment banning the construction of Minarets. An analysis of election results over at [...]
Your favorite posts from October
This post is a little late this month because the first few days of November were quite hectic. I spent most of my time trying to get Mayor Michael Bloomberg—the guy who put credit-card machines in cabs and banned smoking in restaurants—re-elected.
But I’m back. And here are the top ten most-read posts of October:
The graph [...]
Your favorite posts from September
September was a big month for Free Refills & Why I Love America. I switched hosting, redesigned the site and more people visited and commented than ever before.
Thank you for reading, and I hope you continue to visit.
With that, here are the ten most popular posts from September:
Is it time to ban carpooling? At the [...]
Link roundup—“Free Refills at Starbucks*” edition
Last week New York Governor Paterson signed a bill banning texting while driving. If a cop catches you typing out a message on your keypad or doing other “dangerous” activities like using an iPod, it will cost you $150. I guess we can call this victory for the latest round of New York Times fear-mongering. [...]
Link Roundup—“That’s 1228 calories of delicious” edition
The food industry blog Foodservice-Friends.com takes a close look at the cost of providing free refills in a restaurant. The article has a lot of industry-speak, but the long and short of it is that offering free refills adds about 12 cents to the cost of serving a 20oz soft drink, bringing the total cost [...]
