https://punsalad.com/ The most recent articles from Pun Salad en-us Sun, 17 May 2026 12:05:48 -0400 Cato's latest Human Freedom Index rates Taiwan in fourteenth place. Ahead of (ahem) the US (#15). That's pretty good, but Mr Ramirez thinks it's on the menu, and the WSJ editorialists seem to think the island's fate is iffy... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2026/05/17/1779033939 Sun, 17 May 2026 12:05:39 -0400 (paid link) Reading to my kids was fun, and good books were easy to find. But nowadays? WSJ writer Meghan Cox Gurdon looks at the sea of woke that you might find at your ... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2026/05/16/1778942441 Sat, 16 May 2026 10:40:41 -0400 From the Heaton/Bragg team at Reason : If doctors acted like politicians... . I'm pretty sure I pissed off one of my doctors by showing him my recent discussion with Claude... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2026/05/15/1778847104 Fri, 15 May 2026 08:11:44 -0400 … when I read this headline at Ars Technica : Solar drone with jumbo jet wingspan broke a flight record—then it crashed . To be fair, it had a good run,... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2026/05/14/1778768094 Thu, 14 May 2026 10:14:54 -0400 I composed today's headline while reading William A. Galston's WSJ column. He wonders: Are There Five Parties in America’s Future? . ( WSJ gifted link ) (And Betteridge's Law of... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2026/05/13/1778673060 Wed, 13 May 2026 07:51:00 -0400 Today Pun Salad features a double play brought off via Jess to Goldberg to Lukianoff: Famous tells: “It’s not you, it’s me.” “This isn’t about the money.” “We have nothing to hide.” “I’m just asking questions.” “This is not a golden calf.” https://t.co/YYl7Hb7l9K — Jonah Goldberg... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2026/05/12/1778598774 Tue, 12 May 2026 11:12:54 -0400 If I remember correctly, it did eventually work out for Odysseus. Not so much for his fellow-travellers. Andrew C. McCarthy brings up another feature of the ongoing onslaught against constitutionality, one not explicitly mentioned in Mr. Ramirez's cartoon: The... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2026/05/11/1778518699 Mon, 11 May 2026 12:58:19 -0400 From five years ago , an image grabbed from Daniel J. Mitchell's Statism in Five Images ; scroll down enough so you see the punchline. Back in 2021 we were doing that Covid thing, so some of those items were arguably more relevant... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2026/05/10/1778411710 Sun, 10 May 2026 07:15:10 -0400 I've really grown to like Nellie Bowles' weekly " TGIF " column at the Free Press , her acerbic look at news stories that catch her fancy. This week, she discusses FBI... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2026/05/09/1778326220 Sat, 09 May 2026 07:30:20 -0400 My eyebrows got raised by this tweet: This table shows the 15 most expensive metropolitan areas in the United States, where the real value of $100 is the lowest. See the value of $100 in your area: https://t.co/tag06IIWDk pic.twitter.com/k0nSQFixan — Tax Foundation (@TaxFoundation) May 6, 2026... https://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2026/05/08/1778248170 Fri, 08 May 2026 09:49:30 -0400