05 Apr 2014

Potpourri

Potpourri, Shameless Self-Promotion 3 Comments

==> This is Part II of my discussion of IER’s “Comment” (submitted to the feds) on the Social Cost of Carbon. If you’re a climate change nerd, this one’s for you.

==> Richard Ebeling’s brief remarks on the South Royalton conference (teleconference at the recent conference in Auburn).

==> This is so awesome: a story about the private code that comedians use to protect their jokes from “stealing.” If I had to do it all over again, maybe I would have done my dissertation on this.

==> Does anybody know about this experiment in “anarchy” in Denmark? Somebody emailed me about it, but I’ve never heard of it.

==> The government allegedly set up a Twitter account to disrupt Cuba.

==> Apparently this young lady struck out Gehrig and Ruth.

==> Now we know why Alex Tabarrok opposes the National Labor Relations Board.

==> I am sorry but this “puzzle” seems obvious to me: Of course the vendors working on the street don’t want to be making change. The guy I bought coffee / bagels from outside of NYU priced everything in increments of quarters, as I recall. I don’t think it had anything to do with the sequence of ordering and trickery, I think it was quite obviously so he only had to deal with bills and quarters.

3 Responses to “Potpourri”

  1. Tel says:

    This is so awesome: a story about the private code that comedians use to protect their jokes from “stealing.” If I had to do it all over again, maybe I would have done my dissertation on this.

    What makes television so important?

  2. guest says:

    I wish people would steal Peter Schiff’s jokes:

    Peter Schiff’s Stand-Up Comedy at NY’s Funniest Reporter Show
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne__pTRAenc

  3. Matt M (Dude Where's My Freedom says:

    “The political satirical TV show Den halve sandhed (The half truth) featured Christiania in its March 26, 2004 episode. As a tongue-in-cheek action, a journalist started to erect a small wooden hut in one of Christiania’s open areas, claiming he assumed everyone could settle in the freetown.

    Within minutes, Christiania residents arrived and told him this was totally unacceptable. The journalist was violently threatened and told to make himself scarce. ”

    Meh, sounds like just another group of wannabe tyrants using the banner of anarchism to create another state, just one more in line with radical leftist principles than whatever the Danish government currently says.

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