Robin Hanson: "Be open to enemies and potential friends, but hide from friends and potential enemies."#

Straight male seeks Bush supporter for fair, physical fight#

Kleptopoly#

Grant has an interesting comment:#

I have sometimes wondered to myself whether the tax revolts and reticence that have done so much to advance the Republican cause are not so much a refusal to "share," as they are unwilling to fund incompetence (or programs that have a way of funding the problem they are supposed to fix). Or, to put this another way: if governments were more efficient, I think every tax payer would be prepared to be more generous.

Richard is a step away from Sainthood. Yup.#

Club for Growth caption#

Gina Smith quotes Willie Nelson: "Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what the juke box is for." (Check out Gina's book.)#

Don Bourdreaux introduces the FIA.#

Suppose we regulated financial investments the same way that we regulate medications.

We'd have a centralized, bureaucratized agency in Washington manned by expert financial analysts with PhDs in finance from Stanford and MBAs from Harvard. This agency might be called the Finance and Investment Administration — the FIA. No financial institution could offer for sale (or gift) any financial instrument unless it first is proven, to the satisfaction of the FIA's staff, to be both "safe" and "effective."

Lawrence Lessig bemoans the lack of freedom to rob your neighbors for your benefit.#

CleverCS links to a paper that shows that INSERTION-SORT can run in O(n log n) time, with certain high-probability contraints.#

Jonathan Dingel, a fine fellow, writes about freeipods.com.#

Alex Tabarrok summarizes Nature, Nurture, and Income.#

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... is another cute movie. It is really two movies in one, however, the intermission could very easily be a gap between two movies. Kajol is a new face for me.#

According to imdb.com, it was the most expensive Indian film ever as of 2001.#