The Richard quotes some other Richard:#

We'd all be freed to concentrate on the only life we are ever going to have. We'd be free to exult in the privilege — the remarkable good fortune — that each one of us enjoys through having been being born. An astronomically overwhelming majority of the people who could be born never will be. You are one of the tiny minority whose number came up. Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. The world would be a better place if we all had this positive attitude to life. It would also be a better place if morality was all about doing good to others and refraining from hurting them, rather than religion's morbid obsession with private sin and the evils of sexual enjoyment.

Emma Watson is cute-plus and I am twenty. Shit.#

Faré: "At least the buddhists live the poverty they preach; they waste their own time, destroy their own mandalas, and accept the humiliation of peace by unavoided defeat. Post-modernists preach poverty for others, and subsidized richness for themselves, and claim pride at calling for misery through the subjection of all to criminals. That's the whole difference between mistake and fraud."#

Bryan Caplan: Cynicism is a description, Optimism is a strategy.#

Alex Tabarrok writes about the coming public housing disaster for Katrina refugees.#

The Row Boat discusses the compromises and failings of interfaith events.#

RPGamer reports on a plague in World of Warcraft.#

Andrew Moroz links to The Onion article: Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood.#

Mortensen and Bello left bruised after sex scene#

Robin Hanson writes about cyncism. (Highly recommended.)#

Dave Herman on defining computer science.#