TGIF Blogcast: Radio history; Dan Ariely: Misbelief; are tacos sandwiches?

Just One Thing: Are tacos sandwiches (a judge thinks so)

I can’t decide if this story shows how stupid this country is or how smart it is. In Fort Wayne, Indiana, a developer committed, in his plans submitted to the city planning commission, to putting a made-to-order sandwich shop in a strip mall that he owns. He wanted to open a taco and burrito shop and proposed an amendment to the plan to allow those and other Mexican-style foods. The commission denied the amendment. So, first, that’s really stupid. A judge said the commission was within its rights so…end of the taco shop, correct? No, not so fast. Because the judge also ruled that tacos and burritos are “Mexican-style sandwiches and the original written agreement does not restrict potential restaurants to only American cuisine-styled sandwiches” so the amendment was “courteous but not necessary”.

Is a taco a sandwich? Indiana judge issues a ruling after yearslong restaurant debate (msn.com)

SPEAKING OF GOOD TACOS: The first Mexican taco stand to get a Michelin star is a tiny business where the heat makes the meat | AP News

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Today's Guests

Dan Ariely is a behavioral economist and professor at Duke University. He’s also the founder of the Center for Advanced Hindsight. His new book is “Misbelief: What makes rational people believe irrational things”

About Dan - Dan Ariely

https://advanced-hindsight.com/

https://misbeliefbook.com

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Ed Pinto is a senior fellow and co-director of the Housing Center at the American Enterprise Institute who recently visited Denver to share some thoughts about inexpensive free-market-driven ways to alleviate the city's and state's housing shortage including an approach they call "light-touch density."

Edward J. Pinto | American Enterprise Institute - AEI

Denver Post: Smaller homes on smaller lots: Could “light touch density” help erase Colorado's housing deficit?

A Series of Policy Briefs on Zoning, Land Use, and a Solution to the Nation’s Housing Shortage | American Enterprise Institute - AEI

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G Brown is the Director of Colorado Music Experience (a cultural and educational non-profit dedicated to preserving the musical legacies of our state). Some days ago I talked briefly about KIMN Radio on the show so, at a listener's recommendation, he'll join us to talk about that.

Colorado Music Experience | Colorado Has a Story to Tell (colomusic.org)

KIMN Radio | Colorado Music Hall of Fame (cmhof.org)

More stuff:

G. Brown saved Colorado’s music history one cardboard box at a time (coloradosun.com)

G Brown is one of the founders of the Colorado Music Hall of Fame Colorado Music Hall Of Fame | Music Exhibits & Museum in CO (cmhof.org)

KIMN History (tripod.com)

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Other Stuff

Boy do I hope I finally get to this: 30 Useful Concepts (Spring 2024) - by Gurwinder - The Prism

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Can't have (very) conservative opinions even in a commencement speech to a conservative Catholic college: Backlash against Harrison Butker grows: NFL wades in to say it does NOT support his controversial comments, leaders say he does not represent Kansas City and petition to cut him from Chiefs surges past 80,000 | Daily Mail Online

NFL distances itself from Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s comments during commencement speech – The Denver Post

Well, maybe not EVERYONE agrees you can't say that stuff: Chiefs' Harrison Butker jersey ranked among NFL's bestsellers amid kicker's faith-based commencement address | Fox News

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This is what our Congress is becoming. Marjorie Taylor Greene isn't alone in making Congress even less worthy of respect than it already was but she's a big part of it. Clearly others are willing to do the "mean girl" thing too. I sure do wish Greene were removed from committees. I mean, how often is AOC actually right? It takes someone as idiotic as Greene to make that happen.

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Better than nothing and much too late but this stuff should not be on any schedule and it remains unclear to me what it means for the recreational marijuana industry: U.S. Attorney General Begins Formal Process to Reschedule Marijuana - WSJ

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Two things to note in the first story, one of which is further addressed in the second story. First, Dave Williams is a hypocrite and lowlife of the first order with his accusations against Jeff Crank (whom I endorse as the Republican nominee in the 5th Congressional District) of ties to China when such ties are (or were until recently) actually in his family. And second, Dave Williams Will support Donald Trump's aim to add tariffs to US imports because Williams never stops licking Trump's boots...even though those tariffs put his parents out of business.

Trade data reveals Colorado GOP Chair Dave Williams' business dealings with the Chinese - CBS Colorado (cbsnews.com)

Tariffs make us poorer -- the rest is semantic - Washington Times

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This is tremendous: Plato’s final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ash | Plato | The Guardian

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This story is nuts: Scottie Scheffler detained and handcuffed by police outside of PGA Championship (msn.com)

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I owe you this from yesterday: Editorial: Vail cancels Lakota Danielle SeeWalker for Palestine speech (denverpost.com)

In short, while I likely disagree with the artist's view on the war against Hamas, she's not wrong to express one. AND the city is not wrong for not wanting to be thrust into the middle of a globally divisive debate about the war. So the only thing really wrong here is the Denver Post's take on it all. I hope they will publish the letter I wrote to the editor about it.

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More places should do this: Denver drivers won't be pulled over for low-level offenses (kdvr.com)

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Today's Videos

Noa Tishby on college campus protests

I dunno...my wife's keys are much more like my keys (which are like the guys' keys in the video) than like the women's keys in the video. Maybe it's because all the gals in the video are young?