Treacherous Evidence

Paul Krugman pushes out a post assuring his loyal readership that the Republicans will not, in fact, storm back to power in 2010. Which seems likely, because the party is if anything getting even more reactionary, on average. But I find it strange that he would use this graph to argue for his position:
If we [...]

WTF!

I can’t believe that I live in a country where the Supreme Court, the highest judicial body in the land, says THIS.
How f**king primitive do you have to be to say that a woman cannot be a rape victim just because she is promiscuous?
The next box on the same page about women who are married [...]

Pretty much exactly what I wanted to say

Well, not really, I would’ve ranted a lot more, but this is probably what I would have said if I weren’t so pissed:
The Media Wrongs In Mangalore.
Great article,dude. Essential point(or at least my essential point): Beating up women in pubs has nothing to do with Indian culture, and the debate about what constitutes Indian [...]

Quote of the Week: Patriotism

Sorry for being quite obscenely late, as well as for coming up with something that might not really fit the description here. My quote isn’t so much
“Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country”
–John F. Kennedy
but rather, Milton Friedman’s response:
It is a striking sign of [...]

Campaign Contributions by Occupation

Data from Fundrace 2008 at the Huffington Post. I swear, I didn’t select for specific occupations. And I don’t know what their method of data collection is so the results might be skewed. Especially considering that HuffPo is essentially a liberal blog.
I also realize that none of this really means anything to me, as an [...]

Can you believe this!!??

glumbert – How to ruin a day at the museum
How sad it is that they’re doing this to KIDS? And how obvious does it have to be before you just GIVE UP!??
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Happiness and the Political Spectrum

US Centric like most of the data anywhere on the net, but worth reading nonetheless.
Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals. Discuss. – Freakonomics – Opinion – New York Times Blog
• In 2004, 44 percent of respondents who said they were “conservative” or “very conservative” said they were “very happy,” versus just 25 percent of people who [...]

Revisiting Libertarian Paternalism

Spurred on by the interest Niketh showed in the subject, I hereby present what is mainly a collection of links that anyone who cares enough to google “Libertarian Paternalism” can find. I’m just putting it here so that you can see it anyway…something that just happens to be the essence of libertarian paternalism [...]

Libertarian Paternalism

I know it sounds confusing, but give it a chance! First sighted at:
Nudge – Freakonomics – Opinion – New York Times Blog
Since people don’t think very hard about the choices they make, it is a lot easier to trick them into doing what you want than to try to educate them or incentivize them [...]