even yet another blag

It's always best to keep things in the light... : In terms of attitudes towards prostitution, New Zealand and Europe are almost as diame...

QDB: Quote #301779 [Indogutsu] According to an "On This Day in America" calendar hanging on the wall in my office, Robert Fulton...

I've moved my blogging to the new Library Grape. You might encounter a personal post here once in a blue moon, but EYAB is largely on ...

Smithsonian makes a list.

Alas. If state CDH plans aren't allowed yet state single-payer is, their compromise is worthless to those of us on the right, and actu...

Alex Tabarrok : 2013 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Fed.  What have we got for our money? Surprisingly little.  Inflation is clea...

CBS : A group of House Democrats has released a letter to Republican congressional leaders calling on them to announce which of their membe...

I truly wish more people thought this way.

Finally got around to playing with the NYT's deficit reduction app, and here are my results. I choose all the domestic spending cuts, ...

Slashdot : gandhi_2 sends in a brief Associated Press piece on Saudi Arabia's blocking of Facebook . "An official with Saudi Arab...

Tyler Cowen : [T]he libertarian right is having a hard time seeing the Fed as a relative ally over the last three years, which it has been...

This post at Ezra's has a straightforward explanation.

Slashdot : A study out of Canada claims that seeing meat actually calms a person down . From the article: "Contrary to expectations,...

Commerce clause karma bites .

Rich, Black, Flunking : The black parents wanted an explanation. Doctors, lawyers, judges, and insurance brokers, many had come to the ups...

<br /> A redditor comments : I'm in Law School and this illustrates how ...

For once I agree with the top youtube comment: At first I was like -_- then I was like ∙___∙!!! then I was like :D :D :D

Reihan Salam directs us to the latest UN Human Development Index statistics : 1. Norrway (4,676,305) 2. Australia (21,515,754) 3. New Ze...

point counter point You can quibble with the simplifications in both, but I maintain the second is far more accurate.

A seven year old boy was at the center of a county courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody...

Go here for my take on Obama's future triangulation and how I imagine the activist left will respond.

In peaceful protest of the Catholic Church's stance against homosexuality and gay marriage, a crowd of activists staged a massive ...

Yes. He is way better than the GOP's current field. My dream nominee would be Gary Johnson, but let's be real—there's no way...

MMMMMMmmmm

"TIL: I can use cats as a successful medium for anonymous, old-school communiqué. I also learned that their owners don't appreciate...

For my part I feel a bit of schadenfreude at seeing Keith off the air; he's as insufferable to watch as anyone on Fox News. Yet as R...

Not so gently down the stream.

One of life’s little ironies is that, over the long run, people who are willing to admit they could be wrong turn out to be wrong a lot les...

...because it contains a racial slur ! Way to miss the fucking point. What are we banning next, Huckleberry Finn? The Catcher in the Rye?

But I have to admit it's pretty trippy.

Silly professor! Stars only come out at night. LOL! ( reddit )

( Slashdot ) Researchers at Oxford University found that inducing a small current in a subject's parietal lobe boosted their capacity fo...

Tyler Cowen : What's in your wallet? Less if you use Firefox or IE and more if you use Chrome. Here from J-Walk Blog are interest rate...

At Greg Mankiw's blog, a reader responds to the above with this ditty: I heard it in the headlines It's news all over town We m...

( The meme , if you missed it) Perhaps this 1983 answer can satisfy:

Now, a sneak peak of the sequel from a gathering with The Economist. But is Obama a Keynsian ?

IT'S THE END OF THE WOOOORLD!!

Cover of Time magazine, circa 2009 C.E.

And he doesn't want to address it at all: Friend lets New Dude move in with him and his wife. New Dude doesn't pay rent at the ti...

Let's not forget the reason for the season.

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