"Trayvon Martin" gun range targets sell out in 48 hours

Some people get killed and then others make a killing. How it usually goes.

You see the darndest things for sale/trade on the Internet

Homemade cannon for sale or trade

The Armslist, a website devoted to the buying, selling, and trading of firearms and related stuff, has this ad from a creative amateur gunmaker from metro-Detroit. The man (?) wants to sell his homemade cannon for $2,000 USD or trade it for a 1911-style pistol. Heh. I wonder where you would have to go in order to test fire it?

Getting our terms right: free enterprise isn't the same as capitalism

The real divide in our political economy is the Wall Street versus Main Street outlook amongst the business management folks.

"At many companies," says Felix Salmon writing at Wired, "both public and private, the optimal course of action is a modest one — run the business so that it makes a reasonable profit, and can continue to operate indefinitely. If you chase after growth, you often end up in bankruptcy: that’s one reason why the oldest companies in the world are all family-run. Families, unlike public companies or private-equity shops, don’t need growth: they’re more interested in looking after their business over the very, very long run."

Yep. Even though "in the long run we're all dead", as John Maynard Keynes observed we at least have something to pass on.