Saturday, December 31, 2005

Symmetrical Opponents and Freedom of Speech

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I've run across the observation that opponents often become symmetrical. For example, in the NBA if your main opponent adds a good big ...
Friday, December 30, 2005

Why No Ethnic Restaurants in Israel?

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David Bernstein at The Volokh Conspiracy today observes in a parenthesis: "[Right now there are NO Ethiopian restaurants in the entire ...
Thursday, December 29, 2005

The Pursuit of Happiness, via NYTimes

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Two of today's NYTimes opeds (not NYTimes Select) deal with happiness, and lean on old philosophers for their answers: Don't Think T...

Definition of a Bureaucrat

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MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder : "Some of the common signs of obsessive-compulsive persona...
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Girls Get Guts from Globalization III

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My third instance of a similar theme is from a post by Major Bateman on Alter's blog on MSNBC.com, Baghdad Holidays III - Altercation - ...

Girls Get Guts from Globalization II

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The second example, Muslim Women in Europe Claim Rights and Keep Faith , isn't as neat, but the NY Times finds: "a quiet revolutio...

Girls Get Guts from Globalization I

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Ran across three items with similar themes: women being freed by contact with the bigger world. The first is in a Wash Post article-- Facin...
Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Anarchy and Rules

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The NY Times has an article, When Scholarship and Politics Collided at Yale ,on an anarchist professor at Yale, who's involved in a cont...

Shed a Tear for Limbo

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The NY Times reports the Vatican may be doing away with the concept of "limbo": "Unlike purgatory, a sort of waiting room to...
Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Fraud and Speed

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The Post today has articles on fraud at the Red Cross: Fraud Alleged at Red Cross Call Centers : "Nearly 50 people have been indicted i...