* Only Justice Scalia can save us economy-strangling software patents!

* Tim Carmody has a terrific post on the Three Microsofts, and a follow-up on why Microsoft shouldn’t abandon Bing.

* John Goodman presents his Nonreplicability Theorem.

* Might we be better off with with a broad-based 5 percent VAT and an employer share of the Social Security payroll tax that goes from 6.2 percent to 0.3 percent?

* Will Wilkinson makes the case (ironically, I’m pleased to report) for taxing the unhealthy.