One of the great things about movies is they can make an experience that only a select group have and make it universal. Moneyball, while a good movie on a number of fronts, became great because it was able to capture the experience of watching baseball.
Baseball isn’t really an exciting game, except for a [...]
My friend Nemo posted a series of political bugfixes, ideas that he thought were no-brainers and relatively separate from ideology. I agree that all of them are economically optimal, and if I were designing a modern state by fiat I would implement most or all of them. My responses below.
- Eliminate mortgage interest deductions.
- Eliminate [...]
When talking to my conservative friends, I often hear them talk about “investment”, which is two related, but distinct concepts, which are often conflated, causing confusion. One is spending by firms in capital goods, and the other is savings by households (and firms). It’s true that these are generally held in equilibrium, where there is [...]
Politics may be polarized these days, but I think we can all pull together as a nation and agree that Debbie Schlussel is a horrible person.
(Whoa, are we returning to form with short, on-topic posts?)
Spoiler alert: Details of the first game (aired Monday and Tuesday nights) lie after the cut.
IBM has accomplished something impressive by building a computer system that can answer Jeopardy! questions with decent confidence, particularly given the wordplay and nuance for which the show’s writers are known. But if the computer emerges victorious in this week’s exhibition match, [...]
I’m generally of the opinion that there are too many elected offices in American politics, but even I was stunned to learn from NPR that the position of coroner is elected in much of the US. These elections are sometimes partisan, and some don’t even require a medical degree. What to do about this [...]
Evidently having run out of real things to be angry about, Michelle Malkin just begins getting angry at random objects.
<Diapadion> this really is the kind of constitutional bullshit I hate the most, and I guess its not the constitution’s fault, so I shouldn’t exclusively blame it but come ON<Legion> wow<zack> Texas is going to get hilarious<harveyj> if by hilarious you mean gutting health and education spending, yes.<harveyj> <zack> no, I think it’s still going [...]
Winner of the “most awkward concession speech” category in our election prediction contest was nepharis, who picked Paladino to say, “I’m going to kill every last one of you”. Turns out he was pretty close!