Unqualified Offerings

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I think we all need to watch a video of Panda the Miniature Assistance-Horse:

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Sunday’s text is from Karen Pryor:
I have heard professors of behavioral science, who should revere positive reinforcement, boasting about how tough they make life for their graduate students. As if that would help them learn better. Oh, [...]

By Thoreau
Farah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and now infomercial pitchman Billy Mays.
Somewhere right now, the Sham Wow guy is looking at the job openings with a grin on his face.

By Thoreau
The university is likely to give us all a “furlough”, in which our work is allegedly cut by 10% and so our pay is cut commensurately. There are logistical issues here (eliminating 10% of class sessions poses an obvious problem for accreditation), so they’re searching for some way to decrease our workload. [...]

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I think what Tyler Cowen implies is correct. To get meaningful cost control and expanded coverage and high-quality care means expanding the pool of people allowed to perform medical services (and get paid for them). Some [...]

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Wall Street Journal reporting backs up my anecdotal impression: the Great Recession seems to be intervening decisively against brick-and-mortar retail in its long, rearguard struggle against internet marketing. I am old enough [...]

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Via joe in comments, a modicum of good news from the Obama administration. The US government will “phase out funding” for opium-poppy eradication in Afghanistan. Part of the replacement strategy will involve funding crop-substitution efforts, and Richard [...]

By Mona
Your tax dollars at work for Captain Morgan.

By Thoreau
1)  Obama is going down a very wrong path on civil liberties:  He’ll give suspects a trial, but only if he thinks he can get a conviction.  Haven’t had some good Obama-bashing over civil liberties for a while.
2)  Comic book writer detained by brave defenders of the rodina because he had a draft story [...]

By Thoreau
Yesterday’s tragic loss of a great musician was a preventable tragedy.  It’s being reported that Michael Jackson was addicted to oxycontin.  If drug abuse were illegal, there is simply no way that he would have been able to abuse drugs.  And if, somehow he had managed to flout drug laws, he could have been [...]