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Archive for January 14th, 2008

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Familiarity Breeds Runts

Rudy Giuliani turns out to be to the 2008 Republican field what Joseph Lieberman was to the 2004 Dem crop – the guy who leads all the early polls because nobody has heard of anyone else, but tanks when the campaign begins in earnest because he just doesn’t fit the ideological and cultural profile of [...]

Monday, January 14th, 2008

A Bourgeois, Online Riot

Loyal Readers, you’re not going to let us lose to the Volokh Conspiracy, are you? I mean, Marginal Revolution, sure. Nobody’s Business, no problem. But some things are not to be borne.
You realize that most of our competition would “take the points” on 4th and 2 from the 9, don’t you?

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Hickory Dickory Dock

To which I’ll add, a big reason school districts stagger start times by level (elementary; middle; secondary) is bus rotation. But as the author notes, our friend Science shows that younger kids bear early start times better than older kids. On top of that, parents of younger kids bear early start times much better than [...]

Monday, January 14th, 2008

The Bald Truth

The Superficial meets Small Wars Journal at Kung Fu Monkey.

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Recognizing the Chair . . .

Armando Iannucci and commenters.