links for 2008-04-20

• The Not-So-Great Wall of Mexico - New York Times
• The Decline of the $20 Wage - New York Times
• Flapper Jane - New Republic (1925)
• The Fat Bush Theory - Gail Collins
• Downed by the dishes - scatterplot
• The $3 Trillion Shopping Spree - 3trillion.org
• Are Natalist Tax Incentives a Free Lunch? - Bryan Caplan
• Income and Health Inequality (brief summary of CBO report) - Spencer
• The Lies We Tell Ourselves (Iraq) - George Packer - The New Yorker
• Struggling to Evade the E-Mail Tsunami - New York Times