Linkfest – Special “Mopping Up Operation” Edition
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Stuff I’m just too far behind to blog about myself, so check out these posts from other fine bloggers.
--Tim Worstall sees past the silly doomsday sensationalist headlines regarding the United Nations Millennium Report. Two very quick thoughts: (1) What fraction of the resources of the island of Manhattan have we “used up”? A trick question, of course, since the supply of “Manhattan,” qua natural resource, is not fixed. Land may be fixed, land qua resource is not. Same holds true for resources generally and for the planet as a whole. (2) The best way to avoid the “Tragedy of the Commons” is by not having any “Commons” in the first place. Go figure. Samizdata has similar thoughts.
--Eclectic Econoclast has an interesting anecdote about price ceilings and a substitute teacher shortage in Denver -- would you work as a sub for $81 a day? I pay my houseboi more than that to clean my apartment.
--Overlawyered revisits an old favorite issue of theirs and mine: kids and sunscreen.
--WILLisms uncovers an interesting factoid: “Nearly 50% of the American electorate is replaced every 20 years through normal generational turnover.” Unsurprising perhaps, since the usual definition of a “generation” is 25 years. But Will notes the importance of intergenerational voting trends like this to the Social Security debate. Fair enough, but it’s far more important to the gay marriage debate (the Baby Boom is temporary, gays rights are forever). The “age gap” in the gay rights debate is exactly why the “backlash” was so fast and furious -- because the bigots knew that time is short and were desperate to get what they could, while they could.
--A guest-blogger at Observe But Do Not Interfere gives advice on how to buy gas from the “correct” countries.
--Obsidian Wings isn’t too keen on the idea of “interfaith comity,” at least as it’s being applied in Jerusalem.
--Suggested “Tenth Doctor” candidates. I vote for the first guy. Related: Today’s “it only sounds gay” word is fanwankery. Two-minute montage available here.
--It’s Arkanssouri’s one-year blogiversary. A decidedly under-read blog. Congratulations John, hope you’re feeling better. It’s also one year for the (also under-read) LCD and two years for the back-from-hiatus Freespace. Congratulations all.
--One Gay Date uncovers the next Templar-style secret society: the “Order of 429.” Meanwhile, TRL deconstructs “1-2-3.”
--Humor from Ramblings and Ipse Dixit.
--Tim Worstall sees past the silly doomsday sensationalist headlines regarding the United Nations Millennium Report. Two very quick thoughts: (1) What fraction of the resources of the island of Manhattan have we “used up”? A trick question, of course, since the supply of “Manhattan,” qua natural resource, is not fixed. Land may be fixed, land qua resource is not. Same holds true for resources generally and for the planet as a whole. (2) The best way to avoid the “Tragedy of the Commons” is by not having any “Commons” in the first place. Go figure. Samizdata has similar thoughts.
--Eclectic Econoclast has an interesting anecdote about price ceilings and a substitute teacher shortage in Denver -- would you work as a sub for $81 a day? I pay my houseboi more than that to clean my apartment.
--Overlawyered revisits an old favorite issue of theirs and mine: kids and sunscreen.
--WILLisms uncovers an interesting factoid: “Nearly 50% of the American electorate is replaced every 20 years through normal generational turnover.” Unsurprising perhaps, since the usual definition of a “generation” is 25 years. But Will notes the importance of intergenerational voting trends like this to the Social Security debate. Fair enough, but it’s far more important to the gay marriage debate (the Baby Boom is temporary, gays rights are forever). The “age gap” in the gay rights debate is exactly why the “backlash” was so fast and furious -- because the bigots knew that time is short and were desperate to get what they could, while they could.
--A guest-blogger at Observe But Do Not Interfere gives advice on how to buy gas from the “correct” countries.
--Obsidian Wings isn’t too keen on the idea of “interfaith comity,” at least as it’s being applied in Jerusalem.
--Suggested “Tenth Doctor” candidates. I vote for the first guy. Related: Today’s “it only sounds gay” word is fanwankery. Two-minute montage available here.
--It’s Arkanssouri’s one-year blogiversary. A decidedly under-read blog. Congratulations John, hope you’re feeling better. It’s also one year for the (also under-read) LCD and two years for the back-from-hiatus Freespace. Congratulations all.
--One Gay Date uncovers the next Templar-style secret society: the “Order of 429.” Meanwhile, TRL deconstructs “1-2-3.”
--Humor from Ramblings and Ipse Dixit.
Posted by KipEsquire on
1 April 2005
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