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Archive for August, 2006

I wasn’t going to post about this, because it’s fairly grade-school, but I’ve been a reader of, and regular commenter on, JMPP for a couple of years. I generally like her blog, although of late it’s been mostly boring and about dating a poker player, breaking up with a poker player, playing poker, deciding […]

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We Are Small But We Are Mighty

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Radley Balko at The Agitator points to this incredibly powerful video from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, a 5,000 member organization of former law-enforcement personel who are now against the War on Drugs. He’s trying to get a blog-burst going to get these guys some much needed attention. Maybe if this group of former […]

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More on Student Selection

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution points to a post by The Angry Professor about a new budgetary system at LSU.
In essence the professor seems to be angry that departments are forced into competition with each other for students and therefore funding under the new scheme. His main complaint seems to be this:
The marginal departments, […]

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Maybe We’re Not So Very Crazy

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

I was talking to my girlfriend last night, in my usual service as assistant for the “International Debate” class she’s currently taking and the subject of kleptocracy came up, I believe in the context of a larger discussion about the IMF and World Bank. I don’t rightly recall, actually, but it was something like […]

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With sexy dancing by cheerleaders already banned by legislative decree, the Arlington ISD has gone after cleavage in the classroom. Because, presumably, when you allow randy teenagers to stare at a little bit of breast during school the terrorists have won. Money quote:
“It’s gotten bad enough that, unfortunately, our young males are looking […]

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