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Archive for the ‘Strange world’ Category
November 29th, 2011
This past Sunday, I flew home to Los Angeles from Thanksgiving with my relatives in Montreal (actually, it was a bat mitzvah since Canadian Thanksgiving occurred six weeks ago but you get the idea). The Sunday after Thanksgiving is the busiest flying day of the year, with millions of passengers criss-crossing the country. And I [...]
November 16th, 2011
A colleague was just typing something on her iPad. When she typed “law review,” it auto-corrected to “laser Jew.” Discuss. UPDATE: Other excellent examples can be found here.
April 20th, 2011
Category: Commerce and its discontents, Handbasket, world going to hell in, Popular Culture, Strange world
A Saturday Night Live sketch from the late 1970′s featured a store that only sold Scotch tape. Not tape — only Scotch tape. Then, when the economy went bad, the sketch said that the store did well because everyone needed Scotch tape for their “Going Out Of Business” signs. It was a pretty funny sketch; [...]
November 20th, 2010
Ian Ayres to indebted graduates: buy stocks on margin!
August 19th, 2010
Category: Income distribution, Microeconomics and policy analysis, Moral philosophy, Spirituality and Religion, Strange world
The Seven Deadly Sins aren’t very deadly — and that’s a very good thing if you’re in the public policy business.
April 20th, 2010
…no, that’s not the right play; it’s Huis Clos, maybe. I’m in London in a hotel with about ten Americans originally gathered for a conference that ended Friday. We don’t know when we can leave, it’s a nice enough group but the only link is that we all have some connection with biofuels policy, and [...]
March 30th, 2010
French scientists tame the black truffle.
March 1st, 2010
Mickey Kaus is challenging Barbara Boxer for the US senate Democratic nomination. Really. No, really. Do you think that this is a hoax? Nothing up at Kausfiles yet. UPDATE: Via the invaluable LA Observed, Mickey hasn’t actually filed yet; he’s only taken out papers. But as Kevin Roderick notes, “he sounds close.”
January 28th, 2010
Category: Strange world
Comparing TARP to root canal is profoundly unfair — to root canal.
