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Even Further Down Under

In case you’re wondering why I haven’t been posting, it’s because I’m in the mountains of New Zealand’s spectactular South Island. Back soon.

Loaves and Fishes. And Beers.

Following yesterday’s news about Jupiter, CNN turns its attentions to Munich:

You can actually see all 5.5 liters of beer in the photo.

This just in from CNN

The funny thing is, it’s kind of true about the robot ship death crash, though I wouldn’t have put it that way myself. Or maybe the skateboard generation is also gaining influence over CNN’s subeditors.

There are no stupid questions

Well, as a matter of fact, there are.

Irregular Verbs

Commenting on the whole Erik Rasmusen thing at Indiana, Dan Drezner and the voice in his head write:
… the cure for promulgated ideas that are believed to be offensive or wrong is more speech, not less. … What need there is for a review beyond that is truly beyond me. … [Wait, wait, you forgot […]

Rubber Duckies

Jacob Levy revives the debate about the tax system and the poor—or, as the Wall Street Journal called them when it kicked off the argument, those lucky duckies who make up the “non-taxpaying class”. Jacob wants to argue that the underlying form of the WSJ’s argument is very common—indeed, is almost inescapable—in political philosophy. He […]