Reading about a case described in the National Review by Wesley J. Smith,[1] Kevin Drum wonders “if there really are serious moves afoot to redefine “death” in order to expedite organ harvesting.” The case in question concerns a Colorado man, William Thaddeus Rardin, who shot himself in the head. His organs were procured for transplantation. […]
For the sake of reducing the general level of snarkiness in the world, the pursuit of truth to its innermost thingys, and of course the children, I’ve looked a bit further at the question of May-December marriages and what that tells us about revealed preferences. As is often the case, the data tell us both […]
Brad DeLong notices a relationship between the PSAT tests and the magazines lying around his home:
Dubbed… declaimed… reflexive… inquisitive… sustenance… enumerated… demeaned…harangue… munificent… straitened… divestment… sinecure… corollary… culmination… manifestation… constellation… amalgam… embodies… sanguine… impudent… reiterating… carapace… antennae…
[I]t’s hard to avoid noticing something about the vocabulary that they are testing. It’s not, by and large, science […]
Ted beat me to this, mostly. But I wanted to say this: I’m sure if we trawl through our 1990s archives we’ll find that the high-minded and their lofty correspondents
Reader Keith Rempel gets at the heart of what’s wrong here, and articulates what I couldn’t: “Kerry was using Cheney’s daughter to harm her father. … […]
Over at Volokh, recent addition Jim Lindgren is making me regret once more their loss of Jacob Levy. Here he is complaining about the supposedly appalling moderator bias that caused Bush to lose last night’s debate (again):
Given Theresa (“no blood for oil”) Heinz Kerry, the only hard question John Kerry got all night was “I’d […]
Maria’s post about required statistics courses reminds me of a possibly apocryphal story. I think it concerns one of the very early British social surveys of urban poverty by Charles Booth, or Mackintosh or one of those guys. The results were resisted by many for political reasons, and one strategy was to discredit […]
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