Thursday rapid fire

• Bush Urges End of Trade Tariffs, Subsidies - this would actually be a legacy worth remembering, and probably the first "Conservative" thing he's done (with the exception of the tax cuts) since becoming president.
• You Don't Save What You Don't Own - a nice summation of the bus thing in NOLA
  
• Trial Of The Century: Keillor V. MNspeak.com - Someone else approximately shares my feelings about Garrison Keilor
  
• Via the Agitator
  

  ...if I can't have a libertarian paradise where state power defers to social power, or use recent events to urge others to the wisdom of such a state of affairs, I'm willing to propose a second-best for America: replace the three branches of republican government with permanent joint rule by Wal-Mart and the Salvation Army. Go on, tell me you could honestly do worse.

  From Colby Cosh
• I can't find a link to this anywhere, but Commie-Rocker Steve Earle sold one of his songs to be used in a truck commercial. It was quite the talk of the DBT email list (which I still read periodically)
• Since we don't hear anything about hurricane relief in Alabama and Mississippi can we assume that state and local government did their jobs there?