Uncle Sam Poisons the Nation's Hooch to Teach Drinkers a Lesson; Drinkers Keep Drinking
Just Filed Uncle Sam Poisons the Nation's Hooch to Teach Drinkers a Lesson; Drinkers Keep Drinking Unable to stop Americans from drinking, the government laced industrial alcohol with deadly poison and let the bootleggers serve it. The body count ran to the thousands. Read the case →◆ The Bunk on File
Sunshine State Sells Same Swamp Forty Times; Hurricane Arrives to Demand a Refund
The fix: Then the dream discovered leverage. Lots were sold on 'binders' — a small deposit — and flipped before the balance came due, the same parcel trading hands a dozen times a season, every buyer sure of a greater fool behind him. Price came loose from anything a person might actually do with the land, such as stand on it.
★★★★★ NotableRead the case → The Schools · Improving the CurriculumState Bans Evolution to Protect Children; Treats Children to Front-Row Seat at Circus Instead
The fix: In March 1925 the legislature passed the Butler Act, making it unlawful for any public-school teacher to teach 'any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible.' The remedy for godless biology was to make a particular chapter of it a misdemeanor.
★★★★★ NotableRead the case →What Wasn’t Broken
We start with the thing that was working fine — boring, dependable, doing its job.
The "Fix"
Then the improvement: bold, expensive, announced with confidence. Usually unrequested.
The Result
And the receipts — what it cost, what broke, and the citations to prove it.