We're Doing Sort of Okay

The weblog of A. Barton Hinkle

-- editor and columnist at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and contributor to Reason magazine.

Also: Recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize for Medicine, reigning UFC lightweight champion, and two-time winner of the Pillsbury Bake-Off.

Among his many other awards, Hinkle has received the 1942 Academy Award (the Oscar) for costume design in "How Green Was My Valley"; the Wooten-Murray Fellowship in Gas Dynamics from the University of Edinburgh; designation as "Sexiest Man Alive" from People Magazine (in 2004 and 2009, and he has a good shot at it again next year since he started working out again); the Robert H. Gibbs Jr. Memorial Award for Excellence in Systematic Ichthyology from the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; and a variety of military service decorations, including a Silver Star for nighttime air combat missions over the Solomon Islands in WWII and a Congressional Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry at Montbrehain, France, in 1918.

He is also a pretty good dancer.

We’re Doing Sort of Okay

George Mason University’s Mercatus Center has released its annual study of freedom in the 50 states. Virginia remains excellent in the realm of economic freedom, not so excellent in the realm of personal freedom. You can check out the details here.

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