Heh: “Do you trust a lawyer whose job description involves manipulating the truth? Or do you trust the free press whose mission is to bring you accurate and useful news? I’m going with the lawyer on this one.”

Scott Adams Blog: The Shirtless FBI Guy 11/15/2012

The Official Dilbert Website featuring Scott Adams Dilbert strips, animation, mashups and more starring Dilbert, Dogbert, Wally, The Pointy Haired Boss, Alice, Asok, Dogbert’s New Ruling Class and mor…

I vouch for this method. It really is surprisingly effective.

Scott Adams Blog: The Go-Back Prevention Memory Trick 11/19/2012

The Official Dilbert Website featuring Scott Adams Dilbert strips, animation, mashups and more starring Dilbert, Dogbert, Wally, The Pointy Haired Boss, Alice, Asok, Dogbert’s New Ruling Class and mor…

This is a good insight. I had never thought deeply about the image before.

Sowing in Tears

I recently came across these words written by John Piper 21 years ago regarding Psalm 126:5–6. Many a God-lover has paused over these two verses, chewing on the reality they represent. Piper’…

I don’t know much about Mark Cuban, but I almost always find his analyses insightful.

Facebook Needs To Accept That It’s Just A Time Waster

Don’t mess with what works.

This makes me absurdly happy.

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Interesting. This is a complicated question to investigate — I look forward to seeing more research.

Freakonomics » What Happens When You Get Rid of Affirmative Action?

Proposition 209 banned using racial preferences in admissions at California’s public colleges. We analyze unique data for all applicants and enrollees within the University of California (UC) system b…

That there is a strong correlation makes intuitive sense to me, although I would not have pegged it as the strongest predictor.

Sentences to ponder

Stunningly, the postponement of marriage and parenting — the factors that shrink the birth rate — is the very best predictor of a person’s politics in the United States, over even income and educat.…..

So much truth in just three panels…

Dilbert comic strip for 11/22/2012 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.

The Official Dilbert Website featuring Scott Adams Dilbert strips, animation, mashups and more starring Dilbert, Dogbert, Wally, The Pointy Haired Boss, Alice, Asok, Dogbert’s New Ruling Class and mor…

How fascinating. His skepticism notwithstanding, this is a great source for sermon illustrations on David v Goliath.

The Straight Dope: Has an important battle ever been decided by single combat?

Dear Cecil: I’m currently reading Polybius’s Rise of the Roman Empire and stumbled on a quote that begs for elaboration. In book VI, Polybius offhandedly remarks, “Many Romans have volunteered to enga…

This is a very disturbing post. I knew in vague terms that there were disincentives for the poor to earn more money, but this is astonishing. Color me depressed.

Taxes and cliffs

The whole tax debate is supremely frustrating to anyone who survived econ 1. The ill effects of taxation — the “distortions” — depend on the total, marginal rate including transfers. If I earn an ex…