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From the Freakonomics blog:
In bad times, when the opportunity cost of time is reduced, the total price of an afternoon at the ballpark is lower for many people than it is when jobs are more plentiful. I see this in my own planning. Though I like baseball, I haven’t been to an [...]
Cross-posted at TSE
This morning's Kansas City Star has an interesting piece on the new frontier of doping: gene doping. The whole article is worth a read, but here are the opening paragraphs.
Scientists have seen the future of sport. It involves mice that can lift three times the average, humans who [...]
I’ve upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.5.1. Let us know if you notice anything amiss.
(I upgraded all the way from 2.0.4 to 2.5.1. If you’re thinking about doing it as well, just to be safe I upgraded in steps. First to 2.1.3, then to 2.2.3, then 2.3.3 and finally to [...]
Back in the end of March, I asked about J. Gauthier. Gauthier’s name on a registered mail receipt from a letter sent to Al Franken in New York regarding Franken’s failure to provide workers’ compensation insurance for his employees.
Several sources of Minnesota Democrats Exposed have indicated to me that [...]
Daniel Drezner via MR:
10) You get to pig out. More attractive professors tend to do better in student evaluations and other metrics to rate professors. This is not surprising -- after all, the attractive receive a similar dividend across professions.
There's no rank beyond full professor, however. So, that's [...]
This has been noted by conservative sites like Little Green Footballs and Gateway Pundit, but if you haven't already seen it it's worth paying attention to.
It's no surprise that the media are in the tank for Barack Obama, but the willingness of the New York Times to simply [...]
I'll be on Hannity's America tonight at 9:00 eastern, talking about the Minnesota Senate race, with the focus on Al Franken's business woes.
[...]One of the rights which the freeman has always guarded with most jealous care is that of enjoying the rewards of his own industry. Realizing the power to tax is the power to destroy, and that the power to take a certain amount of property or of income is only [...]
For Abdel-Qader Ali there is only one regret: that he did not kill his [...]
I also love being a [...]
The New York Times today published a fairly credible map of the current electoral college landscape.
The tally shows John McCain with 24 states worth a total of 200 electoral votes safely in his corner while Barak Obama can sleep easy about 12 states and D.C. worth 172 electoral votes.
The map is [...]
A set of distinct positive integers has a total of 11 digits, and all the digits are [...]
I would love to tell you we have been ‘off the air’ for the last 2 days in observation of Mother’s Day. But Mom told me not to lie.
Thanks to Jeff for getting us back up.
[...]BEIJING - China faces mounting appeals to prod cyclone-ravaged Myanmar to allow
access to foreign aid workers but is giving no sign it will use its influence
over its ally, insisting instead that the world respect the military junta's
sovereignty.
During this campaign season New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich has established himself as someone worth reading. Last month I took off from Leibovich's article on degrees of disloyalty among the friends of Bill and Hillary Clinton for a Dantesque consideration of Clintons' Inferno. Today Leibovich returns [...]
The English Premier Football League season, that is. Manchester United are the champions. Everton finished fifth and is headed to Europe for the third time in four years.
You can read my before-and-after post here.
Although this is not Everton's highest finish of the decade, it's clearly our best season [...]
Many celebrate Mother's Day over a buffet brunch laden with fresh fruit, French toast and Egg's Benedict.
Not I.
With Mom in southern Florida and me in Minnetonka, MN, our Mother's Day consists of phone calls, e-mail cards and a food basket that unfortunately arrived DOA in Palm [...]
