Sometimes, I read a couple of apparently unrelated blog posts in quick succession, and immediately spot a connection between them. I’m never sure whether I’m being insightful, or just giving in to the incorrigible tendency of the primate homo sapiens to find patterns in everything. Anyway, take this for what you will.

Kevin Drum points us to a particularly galling story of the rich using lawsuits to push people around and get their way, in this case by harassing hot-air balloon operators for disrupting their “Moorish fortress castle” for “ultra high net worth individuals.”

This made me think of this recent post by Corey Robin, also discussed by Mike Konczal with follow-up here. They’re talking about Mitt Romney’s new proposal to replace Unemployment Insurance with individual UI savings accounts, instead of the pooled public insurance fund we have now.