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  • Cultural Pessimism


    A Blank SlateAuthority Authority: 110
    Cultural pessimism has existed as long as culture itself. Just few weeks ago, I met with some friends over a party who bemoaned how new technologies, like GPS for instance, have made us less “intelligent” as compared to the prior generation(s) that did not have access to such technologies and had to rely on their ...
    1 day ago
  • A Restaurant Buschel Full of Rules, Will it Lead to Indigestion


    Serge the ConciergeAuthority Authority: 136
    In any business, you need a framework. Bad service in many places can be caused be bad pay or bad training or both. After reading 100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do , Part 1 and 2 (NY Times, Youre the Boss,  October 29 and November 5, 2009), I was left wondering if Mr. Buschel ever run a restaurant or ...
    4 days ago
  • Tuesday Links


    Cato @ LibertyAuthority Authority: 740
    Dear members of Congress : If you’re not going to read the bills you pass,  at least read the Constitution. Don’t fret; it’s short and written in plain English. Richard Rahn: Pay members of Congress more . (Or less, depending on their performance.) NYC: “ The city that never smokes. ” A proposal to ...
    2 weeks ago
  • "[W]ere on the verge of enacting a policy that is due to explode..."


    AlthouseAuthority Authority: 739
    "... penalizing many of the very people that it was ostensibly designed to help."
    2 weeks ago
  • D.C. Marriage Rate Lowest in U.S.


    Outside The Beltway | OTBAuthority Authority: 657
    Tyler Cowen points me to an interesting discussion on the subject “Why So Few D.C. Residents Are Married.” Washington City Paper ’s Amanda Hess cites a Pew survey finding that “ Only 23 percent of women and 28 percent of men and in D.C. are married, compared to 48 and 52 percent nationwide. The rates in ...
    3 weeks ago
  • The Fact That Anyone Can Publish Means More Of The Good Stuff......


    Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.comAuthority Authority: 163
    Weve tried to articulate this before when various (often self-proclaimed) elitists like Nicholas Carr, Andrew Keen or Mark Helprin bash the rise of social media or the fact that "anyone" can publish. They love to highlight all of the bad and ridiculous stuff that people decide to publish. And, no doubt, plenty more ...
    3 weeks ago
  • The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever


    The New Ledger Chequer-BoardAuthority Authority: 143
    Here it is. And here are explanations and solutions. I love the Internet. (Thanks to Tyler Cowen for the link.)
    3 weeks ago
  • Tyler Cowen on Political Extortion


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 565
    There is talk of repealing the antitrust exemption enjoyed by the insurance industry . Whether the exemption is a good idea or not, I do not know. The relevant event is that the insurance industry seems to have turned against Obama’s health care reform. Everyone who cares about American democracy and rule of law ...
    4 weeks ago

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