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Wow. Hard to know if this is serious . Well, it's obviously not SERIOUS. But is it seriously not serious? We report. You deride. If ...

Holy Crap, people. More hail, more tornadoes, the Norman tornado sirens are blowing and the Angii are back in the bedroom closet, hunkered d...

Here is yet another list of the top 10 most profitable college majors . Economics is #2 (so appropriate,no?). But oh my Lord, the descriptio...

In today's NYT, Bob Frank argues that since private markets compress pay differences relative to productivity differences, libertarians...

"The lawyer of a Lebanese TV psychic who was convicted in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft said Thursday her client could be beheaded this ...

So, Mrs. Angus and me eat lunch in our offices on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This usually requires using a microwave, and in our department, no...

Y'know, when I read the erudite and witty posts of my esteemed co-blogger Mungowitz, I sometimes even forget, for a minute or two, that ...

In todays NY Times " Economic View " Frank opines: "At the heart of attempts to curb carbon dioxide emissions are two related...

Interesting post from my wife's paisan, Roy Cordato. He writes about the strangeness of the NY 23 ballot . Very cool, very interesting....

People: any ideas about WTF is going on here?

sweet concept, no?

Diego Maradona and the psycho-analysts of Buenos Aires!  Argentina just slipped into the world cup, finishing 4th in the South America group...

Three news bulletins from CNN : --A 6-year-old climbed into a balloon-like experimental aircraft built by his parents and floated into the C...

Remember the old ad for electric razors, where the geezer exclaims, "I liked it so much I bought the company"? Well something simi...

Word for the day: mentor As in this quote from the AP : Hickson, whom (Lebron) James has mentored during the offseason, had 15 points and si...

Yes, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn wants to ban the NSF from funding political science projects. And yes he put quotes around the word Science...

I actually think we are going to get a reform that is both worse than the status quo and worse than a pure single payer system.  Kudos to ou...

Or, every girl crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man. Or in this case, a weirdly dressed billionaire. People, Warren Buffet is endorsing men...