Robin Hanson: Is Fairness About Clear Fitness Signals?
Ryan Sager: The Killing of Peter McWilliams
Linda Schrock Taylor: Great Ideas of Homeschooling
. . By the way, I recently tried to post a comment on an old entry, and ran into a bug. If you yearn to express yourself and are similarly frustrated, there’s always mail.
What would political campaigns be like if approval voting — in which a vote for X cannot cause Y to lose to Z — were the rule?
Candidates other than the frontrunners might do more “positive” than “negative” campaigning, in the hope of mutual coat-tailing.
The major parties, rather than putting all their eggs in one basket, might (at least when not backing an incumbent) put up several candidates.
Barlow v TSA (password-protected) (thanks Sunah)
Gun Grabbers Say the Damnedest Things!
What is Too Human? The ethics of human-animal chimeras
One of my correspondents made a joke that could be read as implying that J S Bach (1685–1750) was a Protestant. Which got me to wondering: who was the earliest Protestant composer whose name I’d know? Henry Purcell (1659–95) comes to mind, but who was big in Elizabeth’s reign?
Travis found a choice rant by Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek:
But the bluest blue-state left-“liberal” atheist oughtn’t be too quick with the self-congratulatory praise of his or her own rational faculties. Most left-liberals are pure creationists when it comes to society and social order. For them, government is the creator of order . . . .
I trust you sha’n’t be shocked to know that my social life is dead enough to drive me to sign up on a matchmaking website. It’s rather entertaining, actually.
I am amazed (and a wee bit dismayed) that only two or three of my top twenty matches are over thirty. And now it strikes me that the criterion questions don’t mention age. Not that I have any objection to squiring a lass of 19 summers, but if she has a problem with 25 years’ difference it would be good to know in advance.
The profiler says of me:
Compared to males his age:
- He’s more scientific
- He’s more mathematical
- He’s more capitalistic
- He’s more introverted
- He’s more independent
- He’s more progressive
- He’s more literary