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Bob Murphy on the Tatiana (Moroz) Show

I always blast these things out on Twitter and Facebook, but I can’t forget you guys! Starting at 9pm Eastern (Monday night)… Link here.

Potpourri

==> This John Oliver interview with Snowden is pretty good (though naughty words of course). But if you’re pressed for time, just watch starting at 12:15 to see how the U.S. media ranks priorities. Sounds like a parody. ==> All it took was a simple ballistics test to get this guy off death row. So […]

Ed Schultz Does Not Respect Argumentation Norms

Julie Borowski Gives Libertarian Guys Dating Advice

This sounds really stereotypical, but she actually gives good advice. My main reaction to this video was, “Wow, Julie is even nicer than I thought.”

An Interesting Household Saving Strategy?

I once encountered a suggestion (from a magazine, I think) that offered the following strategy to encourage household saving: Whenever buying something, only use $5 bills or higher. Then every night, empty your wallet/purse of any singles into a jar. By the end of a month, you will be shocked at how much you have saved. Now […]

Translate Piketty?

Do we have any fluent French speakers who can translate these two paragraphs, taken from an August 2014 Piketty column (HT2 Magness)? La croissance perpétuelle de la population, le dynamisme de ses universités et de ses innovations ont pour l’instant préservé le pays de cette dérive. Mais cela ne suffit plus. Une première fois déjà, […]

Blog Migration

Hey everyone, I had to move my blog host, which is why things were odd for the last couple of weeks. At this point we think everything is transferred over. Let me know if you notice any quirks, because I’m getting ready to bid adieu to the other host.

Daniel Dennett’s “User Illusion”

Back when I was a materialist, I loved Daniel Dennett’s theory that consciousness was an evolutionarily driven “user illusion.” Gene Callahan actually pulled me out of that by asking the simple question: Who is the user being fooled? Gene’s question was so poignant that it either was devastating (if you agree with him) or childish […]