Kieran Healy

Posts from April 2003

Calpundit

Kevin Drum has moved to a new domain, finally leaving blogger behind. Now he just needs to turn on TrackBack.


Freedom Markets

Matthew Yglesias notices a FOX news item on the poor domestic economy titled “The Price of Freedom”. He asks:

Does Fox honestly want us to believe that the economy’s poor performance under the Bush administration is some kind of price that we must pay in order to remain free?

Well, yes. I’d say that’s exactly what they […]


Gender Humbug II

Back from his holidays, Chris Bertram has comments about the male brain/female brain multi-choice quiz that I complained about before. Chris stakes out a reasonable position. He’s a bit more precise than I was when I wrote my original post—my excuse is that at the time I was, to quote Raymond Chandler, full of no […]


Gender Humbug

Via Maria Farrell I see that yet another psychologist is laughing all the way to the bank with a book and multiple choice quiz about essential differences in the brains of men and women. A significant commonality in the brains of men and women is an endless appetite for tests of this sort that […]


Posted
17 April 2003 @ 10am

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News

State-sponsored terror

Where did I put my list of countries known to give aid and comfort to terrorists? Sir John Stevens has submitted his report on collusion between security forces and loyalist terrorists in Northern Ireland. As the BBC reports, he finds that members of the RUC (the police) and the British Army snuggled up with the […]


Posted
16 April 2003 @ 9pm

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Misc

New GMOs

Over dinner with my vegan wife, conversation turned to GMOs. (After close observation over a period of years, I can say the benefits of being vegan are manifold. The main downside seems to be endless conversations about it with defensive and/or offensive carnivores. The carnivores always start these conversations.) I started thinking about hypothetical GMOs […]


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