Having read the full paper that I mentioned here, I think some of my initial reservations, which were based on a synopsis, were a little misplaced. Which, frankly, should come as a shock to no one. Maybe the reviewers at Science know more about good science than I do, whoda thunk it? […]
Shamelessly Cross-Posted From the OC.
Late to the party as always, I’d like to point out that University Economics Professor Bill Harbaugh has a new paper on paying taxes in Science a couple of weeks ago. First of all, congratulations to Professor Harbaugh on getting this interesting piece of research into a leading journal. […]
Dr. Helen has a long and in-depth look at an article from Men’s Health about exercise and depression.. Both are extremely interesting reads, especially considering my own experiences in high school and the first bit of college.
In high school I was a pretty good runner. Not phenomenal, but pretty good. My senior […]
It’s good to see Frank back posting at NFLL, and it’s interesting to see that he’s calling himself a libertarian now, but I don’t entirely endorse his position in the linked post. Frank says:
Libertarians who continue to vote Republican slavishly, and I claim voting in this election is voting slavishly, face a very real […]
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 […]
I’ve been thinking a lot the past few weeks about College. Not so much the drunken memories of bad ideas from yesteryear, but rather about the sort of violence problems inherent in the system. There’s a lot sort of wrong with higher education in this country, but having a rather small sample I […]
Bryan Caplan at Econlog has been soliciting class autobiographies from bloggers. Being that is one of the many titles for which I barely qualify (for one of the others check the object of this blog’s title), I figured I’d get in on the action. Why not?
I was born in Houston, Texas. Saint […]
Sunday begins much the same way Saturday did, only this time I can’t move. It seems the bed performed some sort of evil voodoo on my entire musculature during the scant six hours I was in it. My phone is ringing, and in my pained stupor I do my best to answer it, […]
Saturday begins with the slow, uncomfortable daze of a hangover sans the knowledge I at least had a good time last night. I ache all over from the flight, and it’s only four hours after I fell asleep. Somehow I managed to set the alarm to radio and it thusly squaks static at […]
I’ve flown dozens, if not hundreds of times during my life. Just in the last four years I’ve been on somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 round-trip flights. Since January, including my current trip, I’ve been on four. By the end of the year, it’ll be at least five or six. […]
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