Daily Bafflements

• New York’s state legislature only has two weeks left this session, and probably won’t have time to consider new laws on the minimum wage or campaign finance issues. Newsday reports that lawmakers will definitely have time for “legislation to authorize red-light cameras in Nassau and Suffolk counties,” though, so that’s good.

• Wall Street Journal editor Paul Gigot says we don’t need to raise the minimum wage because workers learn from their low wages “to show up on time” and that they “better get an education,” just like he did.

• “M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more are ending up in local police departments, often with little public notice,” according to the New York Times. Maybe we should talk about this a little bit first? Guys?

• From Aeon, the history and psychology of jerks.