Monthly Archives: April 2002

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Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 28 by Anton

SatireWire | Debate Rages Over Doctor-Assisted Suicide Bombing

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approval voting

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 28 by Anton

L’affaire du Pen provides an occasion to trot out one of my hobbyhorses. If you mark your ballot as favoring more candidates than can be elected, your ballot will be discarded as ‘spoiled’. Why? What is illogical about saying, “I … Continue reading →

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welcome brothers Volokh

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 28 by Anton

Hey, a blog by a law professor. I refer of course to Eugene Volokh, who last week hung up a joint shingle with his brother Sasha, a student at Harvard. (Sasha recently made the news by organizing a gun club … Continue reading →

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blog vector

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 28 by Anton

Angela Vierling is a grad student, studying algebraic geometry; and she has a blog. Sadly, it’s not very active. August 2003: It’s a lot more active than it was. October 2004: it’s gone, but she saved some archives.

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travelling gamblers cautioned

Posted on Friday, 2002 April 26 by Anton

Bias for heads in euro coins? More study needed.

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do you remember the night

Posted on Friday, 2002 April 26 by Anton

I dreamt I was listening to Tom Lehrer sing one of his standards, with an extra verse I had not heard before. Of course it was (seemed) brilliant, and of course I could not remember a word of it come … Continue reading →

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l’affaire du Pen

Posted on Friday, 2002 April 26 by Anton

Mark Steyn argues: If the political culture forbids respectable politicians from raising certain topics, then the electorate will turn to unrespectable politicians — as they’re doing in France, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and elsewhere. Le Pen is not an … Continue reading →

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