I get the argument he is making… but there are some channels I dislike so much that their presence in a bundle makes the bundle less desirable to me. I would pay more for less.
Does Cable TV Ripoff People Who Don’t Like Sports?
Recently the LATimes ignited a firestorm of anti-sports commentary by arguing that people who don’t watch sports are being ripped off by Cable TV. A key concern is that the higher bills driven by spor…
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This is good — especially the last sentence: “I think research in moral reasoning is important because understanding why good people do evil things is more important than understanding why evil people do evil things.”
If the world is just, only the guilty are tortured. So believers in a just world are more likely to think that the people who are tortured are guilty. Perhaps especially so if they experience the tort…
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This is absolutely true. One key insight: “I know much of success is luck, but I never realized how much the mindset of success comes from who you know. Luckily, who you know is up to you, not luck.”
It’s all who you know? | Derek Sivers
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Awesome comment at the end (although I do not know if it is true or not): “Do note that death insurance didn’t sell well until it was given the less accurate but more affable name, life insurance.”
Congestion pricing sounds like something to avoid since neither term is something you want. Eric Jaffe held a contest for replacement terms. Decongestion pricing is one possibility since it at least h…
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I am never sure how much to trust the details in these stories, but one section really leaped out at me: “He told Kim he would have to drop a case. A 9/11 case. “I hate to say it,” he said, “but being a Christian is gonna trump being an American.”
‘Imagine the Worst Possible Scenario’: Why a Guantanamo Prosecutor Withdrew From the Case
Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Couch truly believed Mohamedou Ould Slahi was guilty. He also believed that Slahi’s interrogators had broken the law — tormenting him physically and sexually, and threatening…
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Practical advice on stopping gossip in its tracks.
Pyromaniacs: How to shut down gossip and its nasty kin
First, understand what gossip is. Gossip is spreading harmful information in an ungodly manner — without love, and thus to no positive end. Its bastard stepchildren are the triplets: Strife, Dissensio…
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This is a pretty good chart. It leaves out some options (and a ton of detail), but emphasizes the right things.
Click on the image below to see the full-size version: HT: Josh Byers
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The second quote is the one to focus on. If you are squeamish, be cautious when ordering calimari. For the record, I don’t think this would affect my willingness to eat artificial calimari.
Fred Armisen hosts This American Life as Ira Glass
This week’s episode of This American Life is about doppelgangers, so they decided to have SNL’s Fred Armisen come on the show and
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This is the best summary of the issue I’ve seen yet.
Pastor Disinvited from Giving Inaugural Prayer Because of Sermon on Homosexuality
The message of religious intolerance being delivered by President Obama, his staff, and many of his supporters is unmistakable: If you do not affirm homosexuality then you cannot be fair-minded. The m…
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This reminds me of an observation someone made a few months ago, “The problem we have is that one party is dangerous and the other is stupid.”
Liberals according to conservatives, conservatives according to liberals
A 2006 CBS News surveys asked people who said they were conservative a few questions about liberals and asked people who said they were liberals the same questions about conservatives (people who said…