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. […]
Local News Kens 5 reports that last night a man who was ranting to himself “died in police custody” after SAPD attempted to arrest him.
According to witness accounts the man was simply yelling late at night, and was severely beaten by police. The police admit the use of force, but claim the […]
Hey, I know you’ve been going through some troubling server stress recently, and that Inactivist.org has been down for several days at least, maybe longer. I’d like to know how much bandwidth y’all were going through monthly over there, mainly because if it isn’t too much I wouldn’t mind hosting all of the Inactivist(s), […]
Over at Inactivist, DA Ridgely has a pretty interesting post about grades and standardized testing. As a member of the (Smoke Free) Class of 2000 in Oregon I was one of the lucky sots used as an experimental rodentia for the CIM/CAM [warning: PDF]. The CIM/CAM was, and as far as I know […]
Radio silence broken, but only because this article from AFP via SEED is the kind of thing that really, really irritates me. The statement that the United States uses more than a quarter of the natural resources while only having 5% of the population sure does sound ominous when provided without any context, but […]
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 […]
If you didn’t believe that Scientology was a dangerous cult before now, watch and be amazed.
Seriously, it’s quite disturbing. Even worse, the police officer who assaults a law-abiding citizen at the start of the clip. Shameful.
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 […]
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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