Asides

I love the idea of a din­ner for the top tax­pay­ers. That’s bril­liant. If dona­tions buy access, then why not tax­es?

Sen­tences to pon­der

…I find it remark­able that I have yet to receive a thank you note for pay­ing my tax­es. When I fill out my tax­es, I notice that even receipts for $25 dona­tions have thank you notes attached. But for t…

How inter­est­ing.

Crime in Europe and the U.S.

Has there been a “reversal of for­tune”? Pao­lo Buo­nan­no, Francesco Dra­go, Rober­to Gal­biati, and Giulio Zanel­la step into these treach­er­ous waters with a new paper (pdf): Con­trary to com­mon per­cep­tions…

The mouseover text on this XKCD is fab­u­lous.

xkcd: Star Rat­ings

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