Unqualified Offerings

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The sober, important side of last night’s post about blog production rates is that we’ve reached a point where, if you believe people are supposed to work for a living during the day, [...]

By Thoreau
Eric Martin:
Bottom line: people don’t react with gratitude when you bomb them.  It’s not rocket science nuclear physics.
But, if we took that line of reasoning seriously, we’d also have to conclude that bombing every wedding party in Waziristan is a bad idea.

By Thoreau
Jim has set the new production quotas for political bloggers.  Being a libertarian writing on a political topic, he naturally urges a market-based system of cap and trade with auctions.  I am a physicist, so  I declare myself to be both the Program Officer who dispenses the quotas and the Dean who collects the [...]

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Picking up from the Kevin Drum-Matt Yglesias exchange on the Red-Queen race of contemporary pro-blogging, I will name names of people who blog too much among the folks I read. Some of the people are folks [...]

By Thoreau
It’s often said that in the long term just about every investment analyst or advisor has under-performed the market on his stock picks, so the best investment strategy is an index fund or some other very diversified portfolio.  But is that right?  I would think that you could get substantially better returns by adding [...]