Lynne Kiesling Here’s a Wired magazine article from the October issue on the FCC and indecency rules. It does a nice job of highlighting the First Amendment problems with FCC regulations, and it pointed out something that I didn’t realize: their ability to regulate content over airwaves is a function of the purported scarcity of …
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Lynne Kiesling OK, so I hate politics, but I have to ask … Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik and Green candidate David Cobb were arrested outside of the debate Friday night, while trying to file an order to show cause to the Commission on Presidential Debates. The show cause order is to notify CPD of a …
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Lynne Kiesling In today’s Chicago Sun-Times, there’s an interesting Nat Hentoff column on campus diversity. His argument basically is that freedom of inquiry and diversity of thought should be considered one of the things for which students pay tuition, and without that freedom of inquiry and diversity of thought, are they really getting good value …
Lynne Kiesling Over at Truck and Barter, Ian Cook has written the post I would like to have written about the flu vaccine shortage: Hold the phone! You mean to say that government purchasing of vaccines at a forced discount has something to do with this? Could these be the mysterious “business reasons” that cause …
Michael Giberson From Technology News: The second private space flight in a week piloted by history’s second civilian astronaut was worth US$10 million today as the Paul Allen-funded SpaceShipOne (SS1) touched the edge of space and returned to Earth winner of the Ansari X Prize. In addition to its historical significance with respect to private …
Michael Giberson Another story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had me wondering whether football coaches may want to sign up a physicist to advise on potential challenges to referee decisions. Timothy Gay, of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has written Football Physics: The Science of the Game, in which he illustrates a number of the principles of …
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Michael Giberson In a follow-up to my earlier posting, THE HURRICANE OF FORTUNE, on the absurdity of the USA Today article claiming “Economic Growth from Hurricanes Could Outweigh Costs,” I observe that the U.S. Department of Labor said a rise in initial jobless claims was likely due to the effects of hurricanes, including Ivan, which …
Lynne Kiesling Off to the annual conference of the International Society for New Institutional Economics. Back Sunday. Mike’s gonna hafta pick up my slack!
Lynne Kiesling Chicago has a well-earned reputation for cultivating busybody politicians. One of the busybodiest current aldermen is Ed Burke (14th ward), who has proposed a mandatory helmet law for motorcycles. Now, while I think wearing a helmet while driving a motorized small vehicle in traffic with other, larger vehicles is the epitome of common …
Michael Giberson Haven?t made plans for German Unity Day (October 3) yet? I recommend a viewing of ?Good Bye, Lenin!? – funny, humane look at the reunification of Germany from the perspectives of an East Berlin family. Erica Abeel, Film Journal International, said, “The film’s take on filial love is fresh and affecting. Its political …
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