Foreword.

Dear Readers,

Firstly, I would like to apologize to Board Member and author Daniel Klein. His article "Policy Medicine Versus Policy Quackery" [Volume 13, #1--still in press per 1 October 00 (the complete issue was sent in 23 June, the page proofs were then sent to me and returned to HQ July 30)] lacked an important note--namely, that a briefer version of the paper had already appeared in Ideas on Liberty, a journal published by the Foundation for Economic Freedom. I also apologize to IoL Editor Sheldon Richman. Mea culpa to both; I let you down.

This issue has been cooking for a long time too. Up-front and setting the tone is the ambivalent Athena Leoussi of U. Reading (neither PA or jail). But isn't ambivalence what democracy is all about? Democracy and freedom of choice is ironically about seldom getting what you want but often getting what you need. I've never voted for a president I wanted-I've only voted against ones I didn't want. But that doesn't keep me away from the polls. There are enormous amounts of junk on TV and the `Net but I can click around it and the messiness is far better than someone telling me what I should be watching. Far worse is painful music issuing forth in stores and others' cars, not to mention ugly architecture and advertising. I can't click these away. If I were czar, I'd outlaw internally-lit soda/ pop machines and provide capitol punishment for those who chose to put it outside where I can see it but--where would I stop? Next up-against-the-wall are holders of personalized license plates. Then holders of 32-ounce drink cups with cartoon characters on the side...

Next is town-crier for the A.C. city Eric Miller who, when someone thinks up a new bright idea for buffing up our cities (who was the one who advocated planting flowers everywhere--was that Mrs. Carter or Mrs. Reagan?), is ...