Arriving home from work late last night, I browsed to The New York Times and was delighted to see this article analyzing the fact that evangelical Christians were relatively less impacted by the housing collapse.
The NYT piece discusses a recent IMF report published by an economist at the organization, which purports to show that evangelical [...]
My recent post comparing Jon Stewart to Shakespeare’s “Bottom” provoked some passionate responses which served to illustrate my point. For readers who are interested in these things, I will now share some recently-released data to illustrate the situation.
The reactions to me initial post can be lumped into three general categories, all of which I will [...]
Jon Stewart is an ass. That’s what he gets paid for. And if you think that watching him makes you smarter, you’re probably an ass, too – albeit an unpaid ass.
The web sites today are abuzz with the news that Jon Stewart “destroyed” CNBC’s Jim Cramer on The Daily Show. Jon Stewart, aping Bill O’Reilly, [...]
Tyler Cowan mentioned the book a couple of weeks ago, and intrigued by the title, I purchased a copy of “Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction ”, by William Flesch via Harvard University Press. I’m glad I did. It is one of the best books I’ve read in a long [...]