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7 Dec 2007, 11:03 am
I really don't get this. NBC and MSNBC apparently refuse to run ads thanking our troops. Watch the ads on the Powerline blog linked to. Are they perhaps offensive in their very innocuousness? Do they paper over the complexities by using such simple phrases as "Thank you"? Perhaps it is too controversial to say "We think you're heros!" Is NBC's position that they support our troops, but they… [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 12:36 pm
An interesting sounding study is linked to here, via Todd Zywicki and Volokh, regarding usurious loans. From the WSJ: But even consumers making flawed decisions may be better off when they can borrow from regulated financial institutions at "excessive" rates. Our organization, Innovations for Poverty Action, tested this proposition. We worked with a successful finance company in South Africa to randomly choose some just-below-the-normal-approval-bar applicants to receive… [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 6:38 pm
Why do the cars in the lane you are not in, always seem to be going faster than you? Because they are. Really. [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 10:42 am
I have had a number of colleagues and friends ask me if my family came out of the fires OK. It has been quite touching, really, how many have asked. Thanks! I realize now (and it has been pointed out to me) that I blogged about the fire and being evacuated, but did not really finish the story, leaving some to think perhaps I had lost my house. But not so. We returned to our house last Friday, to find it a complete mess. Of course, it was a complete… [read post]
23 Oct 2007, 10:32 pm
Tom at Jamulblog is off the air, so his excellent reports are no longer available. [read post]
20 Oct 2007, 5:50 pm
Is this a heh? [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 8:10 am
It shouldn't require an order from the AG to tap phones of enemies in a war zone, after a US soldier is kidnapped. [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 6:32 pm
Here is a difference between us and them: On Friday, a suicide bomber pushing a candy cart into a playground in the northern town of Tuz Khurmato killed one 8-year-old boy and wounded 23 others, a senior police official said. A security guard, whose child was playing in the park, was also killed after he tried to subdue the bomber as he entered the playground, said Lt. Col. Abbas Muhammad, the city's police chief. Colonel Muhammad identified the guard as Abbas Sameen, 35, the father of three… [read post]
29 Sep 2007, 1:29 am
Alternative title: When smart people do stupid things. I fear this analysis is quite correct. [read post]
7 Sep 2007, 2:13 pm
You got in. You've got a right to slack. Funny. [read post]
29 Aug 2007, 4:30 pm
Miss South Carolina is probably not called to the bar. Better answers would have been: "I don't know." "Because they're stupid?" and "I don't know, but do you like my dress?" But what she said, no, that was not a good answer. [read post]
25 Aug 2007, 1:37 pm
An Air Force surgeon in Iraq. [read post]
30 Jul 2007, 4:24 pm
Weird Al defines nerdy, more effectively than the professor does. Though maybe they agree. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 1:56 pm
This strikes me as correct -- how exactly did Scooter's false statements obstruct anything? [read post]
23 Jun 2007, 5:55 pm
You can follow the progress of EarthTrek's team on K2 here, a step by step if you will blog of their attempt on this greatest of all peaks, a much, much worthier objective than Everest. It is for all practical purposes as tall as Everest, but much more difficult to climb. And these guys are trying a route never done before. They stand a good chance of losing at least one climber, which strikes me on reflection as pretty much insane, but it's not as if they… [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 10:19 pm
He's not running for the Democratic nomination. His appraisal of the consequences of defeat strike me as exactly right. [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 9:40 am
From Dr. Helen. Boy-related quote of the week: During the big air-soft war over the weekend, I got tired of listening to the bickering over who would get to use the new M-82, who the pistols, etc. etc. Finally Dad had to yell "If you guys don't stop fighting, I'm going to make you stop fighting!" It worked. They stopped bickering and went back to shooting at each other. Which reminds me: Boy movie review -- Apocalypto … [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 9:12 am
Here are the specific privacy beefs that Privacy International has with Google: In summary, Google's specific privacy failures include, but are by no means limited to: Google account holders that regularly use even a few of Google's services must accept that the company retains a large quantity of information about that user, often for an unstated or indefinite length of time, without clear limitation on subsequent use or disclosure, and without an opportunity to delete or withdraw… [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 9:34 pm
This essay in Time argues no; overscheduling is a myth it says. I'm not so sure. Homework in high school seem awfully heavy. I had time to do sports and read a lot on my own. How my 15 year old would do this, I have no idea. He has 3 hours of homework a night and often more. You can't do 4 hours of homework and have time for anything else. Many kids in his school apparently deal with this by not doing all the work and taking… [read post]
26 May 2007, 2:23 pm
The photo alone says it. [read post]
