Oh, and also to Stephen, I do remember Kennywood, fondly and vividly. My first roller coaster, my first log ride … although I don’t think that was my first post-ride motion sickness. My father will have to confirm (and he should feel free to do so in the comment box if he does recall …). …
Thanks to Stephen Karlson at Cold Spring Shops for pointing out that spring is around the corner as pitchers and catchers report to camp. And to make it even better, Greg Maddux is reporting to the Cubs spring training (pending a physical)!! Yeeee hah!
Carnival of the Capitalists is now up for this week at Tasty Manatees. In addition to my airport time slots post, COTC highlights a few posts that I read last week too and think are really good. I’m running out the door for the day, so will only highlight one for now. More later. At …
I cannot agree more with the first sentence of this Empire article on Emma Thompson: One of the best things about the Harry Potter franchise is surely the fact that the perfect people have been cast in every role, no matter how much screen time they get. This is certainly true for the main recurring …
Courtesy of fellow Chicagoan knitter Bonne Marie Burns, this chuckle: How Many Dogs Does It Take to Change A Light Bulb? Golden Retriever: The sun is shining, the day is young, we’ve got our whole lives ahead of us, and you’re inside worrying about a stupid burned out bulb? Border Collie: Just one. And then …
COTC is at Trommetter Times this week. Lots of interesting posts!
… with such thought-provoking and innovative posts as this from Tyler Cowen on the market value of different aspects of real estate. Not surprisingly, bathrooms add considerably to the market value of the property. Tyler’s got all the links to the academic literature he’s discussing, so I won’t reproduce them here. Interestingly, we have been …
My Italian friends Fabio and Federico (yes, that’s really their names) tell me that the Italian equivalent of “too many irons in the fire” translates to “too many things boiling in the pot”. I love it. Except that I feel the heat of the many things boiling, and posting may therefore be somewhat curtailed over …
A final set of recommendations … today Ron Bailey of Reason is testifying before a Congressional hearing on “The Impact of Science on Public Policy”. His testimony is available at the Reason magazine website, and indicates some general tendencies that I have found in my wanderings through energy and environmental public policy: What are the …
While I’m recommending good posts from around the ‘hood, this Catallarchy post from Jonathan Wilde builds on Brad DeLong’s “Tale of the Serf” post nicely. Basically, Brad creates a false dichotomy (as Jonathan notes) to illustrate a point: do you care how free you are if your life is better in other ways? I agree …
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