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Barry's putting the band back together. He's on a mission from god.
The Dish rounds up various responses to the president's speech from prominent bloggers.
More on local governments acting like feudal lords who see their populations as a means for extraction of wealth.
The 47% of our population that freeloads off the productive 53% are women. Men, because they make more money, pay more taxes. There's a fun satirical argument to be made about women being welfare queens and such but I think it's point would be lost on the right. Oh, and these numbers are Canadian.
Also, having children is good for your career. If you're a man.
Wisconsin didn't like that Kansas was getting singled out so it decided to completely destroy its budget through conservative fiscal policy. Don't elect republicans. No, let's say it this way: don't elect only republicans.
Meanwhile, New Jersey gets its credit downgraded because republicans.
Critics of same sex marriage seem to believe that public opinion polls on the issue are measuring a "desirability bias" and that a majority of the public are actually opposed. This research finds otherwise.
Public opinion polls consistently show that a growing majority of Americans support same-sex marriage. Critics, however, raise the possibility that these polls are plagued by social desirability bias, and thereby may overstate public support for gay and lesbian rights. We test this proposition using a list experiment embedded in the 2013 Cooperative Congressional Election Study. List experiments afford respondents an anonymity that allows them to provide more truthful answer potentially sensitive survey items. Our experiment finds no evidence that social desirability is affecting overall survey results. Indeed, our efforts provide new evidence that a national opinion majority favors same-sex marriage. To evaluate the robustness of our findings, we analyze a second list experiment, this one focusing on the inclusion of sexual orientation in employment nondiscrimination laws. Again we find no overall evidence of bias.
If your kids get free healthcare you're more likely to start a company. More evidence that "big government" can be a freedom maximizing proposition.
The Economist charts grade inflation at the Ivy League. Obviously they fail to understand the point of the Ivy League is to replicate privilege and reproduce a ruling class.
Fidelity, the financial services firm, reviewed which accounts performed the best. Apparently it was the accounts that people forgot about that outperformed all the others! In other words, you can't beat the market.
Will Apple's new mobile payment system make people poorer?
A little social science: People who use credit cards tend to give bigger tips at restaurants and spend more at department stores. They are also more likely to forget, or to underestimate, the amounts of their recent purchases.Is TMZ, yes that TMZ, a weird celebrity obsessed social justice crusade?
The genes that make people smart continue to elude researchers. Ah, I remember the good old days when we could just assume that decoding the genome was going to fix everything.
Jason Jones has written an excellent musing on Bioshock Infinite. It seems he may have written some Bioshock fan fiction without even knowing it. You can find part 2 here.
George RR Martin continues to write the wrong book.
But, Alan Moore of Watchmen fame has written a novel that is 1 million words. He wrote 500,000 since last year.
Notch: I'll do anything for $2 billion. Microsoft: Challenge accepted.
It is difficult to change your regional accent. I dunno, I lost half my teeth and now I sound like I'm from eastern Kentucky.
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