http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/05/the-paul-vs-paul-debate.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marginalrevolution%2Ffeed+%28Marginal+Revolution%29
---SPSmith
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Near-death, rehashed : Pharyngula
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/04/near-death_rehashed.php
If I am an ideologue, it's only in that I demand that if you call
something science, it bear some resemblance in method and approach to
science, not mysticism. Beauregard insists on trying to endorse the
babbling piffle above as science by reciting the number of
publications he has made, and how much grant money he's got, when I'm
looking for verifiable, reproducible, measurable evidence
---SPSmith
If I am an ideologue, it's only in that I demand that if you call
something science, it bear some resemblance in method and approach to
science, not mysticism. Beauregard insists on trying to endorse the
babbling piffle above as science by reciting the number of
publications he has made, and how much grant money he's got, when I'm
looking for verifiable, reproducible, measurable evidence
---SPSmith
Monday, April 30, 2012
Interstate-Guide: Interstate 17
Between Phoenix and the Arizona 69 split (Exit 262), the freeway replaces old Arizona 69. This is significant because the exit numbering scheme still follows the original mileage of that route. According to the Misc.Transport.Road FAQ (Marc Fannin) based on comments from Richard C. Moeur, "Until the mid-1980s Arizona used a special system for its mileage -- any route which did not enter Arizona from another state used the mileage of the route where its southern or western end was for its point of origin rather than zero (e.g.: If Route 2's southern end was at Route 1 and Route 1's mileage at the Route 1/Route 2 intersection is Mile 57, then Route 2's lowest-numbered milemarker would be Mile 57). Interstate 17 is a special case: Its exit numbers are actually those of the former longer routing of Arizona 69, which branched from U.S. 89 at Mile 201, since Interstate 17 and Arizona 69 were paired early. Arizona 69 has been truncated since the exits of Interstate 17 were numbered (see Arizona 69 (Alan Hamilton)). The exit numbers on Interstate 17 are not related to those of Interstate 19."
---SPSmith
Check out: 'Originalist Sin' on Slate
I thought you might find this Slate article interesting:
Originalist Sin
By Eliot Spitzer
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_best_policy/2012/04/affordable_care_act_the_supreme_court_and_the_constitution_harvard_law_professor_einer_elhauge_shows_how_the_founding_fathers_supported_mandates_.html?wpisrc=sl_ipad
---SPSmith
Originalist Sin
By Eliot Spitzer
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_best_policy/2012/04/affordable_care_act_the_supreme_court_and_the_constitution_harvard_law_professor_einer_elhauge_shows_how_the_founding_fathers_supported_mandates_.html?wpisrc=sl_ipad
---SPSmith
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Barry Eichengreen on the Euro | FiveBooks | The Browser
Americans, especially, are inclined to be critical of Europe's long holidays, inflexible labour markets, and so on. The Hall and Soskice book is an articulate statement of the view that there are different ways of cracking the same nut. There are different ways of organising market economies – different constellations of social and economic institutions that, in combination, can be equally efficient. Europe has very significant strengths in precision manufacturing. It has apprenticeship training programmes and employment stability that facilitates the acquisition of skills on the job. It has patient banks to fund the operations of firms investing in their workers. It's not obvious that this constellation of institutions is inferior, from the point of view of growth and competitiveness, to that of the United States. Ten years ago, the so-called experts would have been unanimous that the US had a leg-up on Germany in terms of innovation and export competitiveness. Now, to put an understated gloss on the point, this is no longer obvious.
Well I'm in Holland, after nearly a decade of living in the US, and I think many Americans, with their prejudices about Europe, would just be blown away by how much better things work here on an everyday basis – taking the bus, the train, going to the doctor, getting good childcare. I went to the dentist yesterday, and I watched as a computer and a machine made a new tooth for me in less than two hours. And it was so much cheaper than the US, too.
---SPSmithHow to talk to a Republican
http://jasonstanford.org/2012/04/how-to-talk-to-a-republican/
The list of demonstrable malarkey that Republicans hold to be
unalienable truths is laughably long: Obama is Kenyan; Obamacare has
death panels, increases the deficit, and pays for health care for
illegal immigrants; Abortions give you breast cancer and cause pain in
fetuses as young as 20 weeks; Iraq had WMDs and Saddam Hussein
collaborated with Al Qaeda; Tax cuts increase government revenue;
Obama's stimulus created no jobs, and in fact government spending is
hurting our economic recovery; If we don't raise the debt ceiling, we
can simply prioritize payments and avoid disaster; We are a Christian
nation whose forefathers "warned the British" about our gun rights,
"worked tirelessly" to abolish slavery, debated Creationism before
Charles Darwin even thought of evolution, and never intended to
separate church and state; Evolution is not real, and global warming,
if it's even happening, isn't our fault.
---SPSmith
The list of demonstrable malarkey that Republicans hold to be
unalienable truths is laughably long: Obama is Kenyan; Obamacare has
death panels, increases the deficit, and pays for health care for
illegal immigrants; Abortions give you breast cancer and cause pain in
fetuses as young as 20 weeks; Iraq had WMDs and Saddam Hussein
collaborated with Al Qaeda; Tax cuts increase government revenue;
Obama's stimulus created no jobs, and in fact government spending is
hurting our economic recovery; If we don't raise the debt ceiling, we
can simply prioritize payments and avoid disaster; We are a Christian
nation whose forefathers "warned the British" about our gun rights,
"worked tirelessly" to abolish slavery, debated Creationism before
Charles Darwin even thought of evolution, and never intended to
separate church and state; Evolution is not real, and global warming,
if it's even happening, isn't our fault.
---SPSmith
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