Update

About a year ago, early in this blog's slow, steady march toward a double-digit readership, I made these comments (see second-to-last item) criticizing a Maryland law, aimed at Wal-Mart, that required large employers to spend at least eight percent of their payroll on health insurance benefits.

Yesterday, a federal appellate court upheld a lower court ruling throwing out the law. Good. The best intentions don't justify a dopey law and bad health care policy.