Unqualified Offerings

If you can avoid the terms “holdem” and “poker” in your comments, it would be a) appreciated, and b) keep your comment from getting caught up in the new blacklisting routine.

Very very good. Superb acting by everyone. A very good script. In two places, either the authors or the producers felt obliged to insert superfluous MOSes. Otherwise, the dialogue plays very well. Batman’s method of stopping the Big Threat at the end seems grandiosely misconceived. Even if I huff and puff, trying to tie the [...]

No, Mrs. Raich. I expect you to die.

Joseph Bottums of First Things identifies a shocking, new, incongruous coalition between neoconservatives – pet issue: “benevolent hegemony” – and conservative Christian moralists – pet issue: abortion:
The angry isolationist paleoconservatives are probably right—this isn’t conservatism, in several older senses of the word. But so what? Call it the new moralism, if you like. Call it [...]

Been pretty smug about my relative lack of comment and trackback spam to date. But just tonight, the deluge. It’s all getting thrown into moderation, but it’s still annoying, and it takes up space in my in-box.

At the fabulous Big Planet Comics in Bethesda:
Customer: Did you see Batman Begins yet?
Friendly Local Comics Shop Manager: Yes, did you?
Customer: Not yet, but I will soon.
FLCSM: It’s great.
Customer: I’m really looking forward to it. I love Ken Watanabe.
My (discreet!) chuckle will make sense if you’ve seen the movie and, I hope, not ruin anything [...]

Alex Tabarrok has added a wrinkle to the “assurance contract” concept which offers some promise in the area of non-coercive funding of public goods.
Via Marginal Revolution.