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Your President Hopes You’re Stupid
Joe Biden says that Mitt Romney has lied about Jeep and outsourcing; Romney intimates that President Obama has lied about Libya. I presume there’s been substantial truth-stretching on both sides and...
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Can A Million Puppets All Be Wrong?
The million-puppet march on Washington is advertised as a demonstration in favor of public broadcasting, but of course that’s not exactly what it is. What it is, exactly, is a demonstration in favor...
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Good News and Bad News
Good news and bad news: Romney lost; Obama won. What’s most depressing about the Obama victory is that it seems to have come largely as a reward for two things: the execrable auto bailout and a...
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Accounting for Numbers
Over at Less Wrong, the estimable Eliezer Yudkowsky attempts to account for the meaning of statements in arithmetic and the ontological status of numbers. I started to post a comment, but it got long...
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How High Should Taxes Be?
How high should taxes be? High enough to cover expected outlays going forward — but no higher. That’s because any additional revenue would be used to pay down the federal debt, which is a bad idea. It...
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Breakfast in Singapore
(Source here. Hat tip to our sometime commenter Val.) Click here to comment or read others’ comments.
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Unreasonable
Brad DeLong appears to argue here that because pure reason once led him, Brad Delong, to an incorrect conclusion about which direction he was facing, it follows that pure reason can never be a source...
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Looney Tunes
So there’s this man-eating creature named Jozin who lives in a bog, and is vulnerable only to crop-dusting powder. The mayor promises his daughter in marriage to whoever can defeat the creature. A...
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