George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C
Alec Brandon, Chicago Maroon
Articles
Oh snap
R. Kelly2
If you are looking to waste a couple of hours, I highly recommend
Where does a pop sensation stay in rural Connecticut?
Word on the street says Paul McCartney stayed at the Josef
British invasion1
My hometown of Bethany, Connecticut’s epicenter of all that is bovine, just became vaguely cool. Last
Video of the day
The dance remix of Bill O’Reilly’s meltdown that I posted a week or two ago:
wtf
Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade distinguished service professor in the Divinity School,
100,000
It looks like this blog will hit the big 100,000 unique visitors mark tomorrow.
It is hard
A rock song about unintended consequences
So I was listening to some music the other day and came upon
Dr. Jekyll and Hyde Park
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Video of the day1
Everyone dislikes Bill O’Reilly, but do you fear for those that live and work with him? This makes th
Arts, Schvarts
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Bloomberg on the gas tax vacation
I’ve given Bloomberg a hard time lately, but after this, he seems kinda bad ass to me. In response to
PC >> academic freedom at Yale
I don’t know what art is, but at least I know this. This sort of self awareness seems to be lost on Y
Why won’t you die?
It’s Kentucky Derby season so you know what that means: More remembrances of Barbaro.
The
Are gas prices too high?
A lot of people are bitching about how high gas prices are. I don’t drive so I think I have a pretty
Turns out you can do worse than Michael Bloomberg
How the mighty have fallen
Summer internment
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Senior projects gone wild
I don’t know what there is to say about th
The Office1
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…The housing crunch
The real Hillary in Bosnia video
What does the McCain campaign know?
John McCain has admitted he doesn’t know anything about economics. I guess that would be OK if his ad
Low tech blogging
This is one of the coolest blog
Obama’s bracket
Bacon vodka
Bacon lollipop!
Video of the day2
Devotees of this blog will know that I used to do this everyday (during my summer of blogging). I’m t
Sinbad mans up
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…After Goolsbee-gate, should we invade Canda? Yes, we can
Powers resigns from the Obama campaign
Yesterday the Harvard hottie (and Obama advisor) that caused Cass Sunstein to
Why are so many ex-Maroon editors such losers?
Favre
The Packers got a new team mommy to
The Leftorium should expect a boost in business
A couple of pretty lame researchers from the Urban Institute think so. Their logic makes sense. The pDo iPods increase crime?
Brodie: You don’t mess with Goolsbee and walk away from it
Apparently Leslie Hairston didn’t realize that Maroon cartoonist Tom Tian regularly
Leslie Hairston: You crossed the wrong cartoonist
Would you like some bacon with that placemat?
I’m so making this. I’ll be sure to ha
Parking and the 171 bus
So I just saw this news on Facebook. I’m not actually sure how true it is, but apparently one of Hyde
I love “I Love L.A.”
Via Talking Points Memo:Waterboarding your way into the black
A
David Brooks is dead to me
I’m all about Democrats pretending to be populist on trade and then governing differently.Sunstien and Nussbaum: Splitsville
Goolsbee is the man
Go back to Canada
I can’t remember a better year for fund raising at the U of C. It seemed like there were countless U of C 12th in fundraising last year
Gossip geek
It’s hard not to love this.
It’s not easy being green
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
More redesigned websites
This falls into the barely worth mentioning file on this blog, but it is likely to have a big impact
Aid should focus on those who need it
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Dogs >> Chickens
Last week Mets stars Pedro Martinez and Carlos Delgado were video taped
Division of labor
Economists really need to stick to what they know.
What’s a superdelegate?
I’m not a huge fan of the markets that let people buy and sell shares of a candidates chance to win aPresidential futures market
Barack Obama isn’t Muslim you fools!
I really can’t believe this.
I just found out that a family member (extended family, thank
Ugh135
Hillary tears up ag
Arrested Development movie?
Cheesy bacon
Coincidence?
I gave $5 to the Obama campaign today.
A couple hours later he devastates Hillary on Iraq
Baby It’s Cold Outside
When I went into my lab this evening it was a comfortable 40ish. When I got out it was an insane 10is
Michael Cera for convocation speaker!
Current convocation setup is super bad
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Who cares about 1992?
Obama wins1
Playstation 3 stimulus package
Hyde Park Herald phones it in
The announcement <
Lake Wobegon!
Barack Obama is obviously a fan:
My wife is extraordinary and my children are above averag
Applications up, way up
Get your pirate jokes ready!
Because Treasure Island is going to be the grocer that replaces
Silent majority finds its voice in Co-Op debate
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Hillary gains a key endorsement
Spots in Steven Levitt’s Economics of Crime class are so lucrative that a student has put their
Markets in everything: Class spots, Chicago style
Breaking: Chris Dodd won’t win Iowa
Peyton Manning. We should all pray Thompson drops out soon, otherwise we might soon be inuFred Thompson gains a major backer
Sinbad!
A lot of the blogosphere is awash in discussions of change and how the different Democratic candidateIraq, change, and Hillary
Trade policy and Obama
Total pwnage
This video seems to sum up the Democratic primary for me:
Is anyone hurt by Harvard’s new financial aid policy?
K-Fu4
We at the Editors Blog are pretty pumped about the Cubs signing of Kosuke Fukudome (and by we, I mean
Recession?7
Why are people so intent on showing us why a recession is coming?
I mean, a lot of things
Harvard gives financial aid to the rich
Harvard decided to change it’s financial aid policy yesterday.
The big change is that Har
Austan Goolsbee on advising Obama
More Goolsbee blogging on the last night of the Autumn quarter at the U of C.
Freakonomics
Snow day!!1
We are suppose to get 6 inches of snow tonight.
In related news, I have a final and a proj
Obama is evil!
Did you know that Barack Obama has made it his life’s goal to become president? And he’ll do
The Co-Op Initiative
Well, it looks like the Co-Op isn’t too optimistic about its chances of actually getting that loan.
100,000 Views
A couple of days ago this blog passed the 100,000 view mark.
It isn’t the biggest deal in
ESPN Featured Comment of the Day
So there are four updates on the Co-Op situation: First, and this has already been widelyCo-Op news update
Charges filed1
Mideast peace?
Development key to safer Hyde Park
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Cameras1
Did the University use the alert system?
Christian Prince
When I first heard about the Amadou Cisse killing I immediately thought of the murder of
Should the University have alerted students sooner?
Shooting at the U of C
Last night Amadou Cisse, a PhD student at the U of C (in Chemistry) was shot and killed while walking to his home at 61st and Ellis Ave.
Death Penalty and deterrence
Rhodes5
Wowza
Stupefy!
I’m honestly dumbfounded by the latest effort of the H
Empty shelves, empty promises
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
More polling news
Zogby just released their latest poll from
Credible self-punishment
I was just having a discussion with a friend a week ago about how much more efficient people would be
Writers strike
Holliday and home field advantage
Next week baseball writers across the country will vote for the NL MVP.
Matt Holliday will
T-Squared lovefest
Fenway
So I was in Boston for the past 24 hours and both times I drove past Fenway Park (to and from the air
Quick hits1
1) Chuck Schumer folks. A big round of applause. He’s not only the most annoying member of Congress,
Where’s Ronald Reagan when you need him?
56th and Cornell
The 26 story apartment building that is planned for the corner of 56th and Cornell looks…interestin
Ron Paul supporters bash Ron Paul
Perception and reality on the economy
I’m so tired of stories like this in the newspapers. Someone will do some poll about satisfaction wit
Ron Paul and commenting
Comments have gotten absolutely out of hand on the two posts below about Ron Paul.
As a re
Endowment policy
Stanford Law grades employers
Congress should keep out of colleges’ business
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Becker to the rescue
This article from “The Spoof”
How well is Hillary really polling?
Well the latest polling numbers from Iowa d
Is the Doctors Hospital worth saving?
Is economics out of touch with the real world?
U of C in the Onion
“Scientists Theorize What Would Happen If They Touched A Cloud.”
The end of Poland’s twin-tag-team
This is one of the most asinine thingsCongress considers forcing Universities to make college cheaper
Even Stevphen
The Daily Show has posted a ton of videos going way back onto it’s
Fear the U of C PD
A figure that students at the U of C throw around a lot is that the U of C has the second largest pri
Now I get plagirized
For serious.
Fallows on the American Idea
In which I channel Fire Joe Morgan
Bill Simmons desc
More on Chief Wahoo
HP Herald overload
I nearly had an aneurysm when I read the Hyde Park Herald’s “editorial section” today. (Link is
Turns out Hillary never really liked that NAFTA thing
Well there goes any reason for me to consi
Divorce celebration
I was reading the latest issue of the Maroon today (in which I have a
Stop taking Ann Coulter seriously.
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Re: Ellbury’s burden
U of C gets another Nobel
Roger Myerson, a U of C Economics professor,
YDN on Goolsbee
Alright, so this obviously seems like it might be turning into an obsession, but I swear that I found
More baseball blogging & ESPN bashing
Now I don’t mean to overdo it with all this baseball blogging. I’m planning on writing a column on Ob
So who’s he going to endorse
Now that Gore is not just ex-Vice P
Is Jeff Francis the reincarnation of Frank Grimes?
Tonight the Colorado Rockies won what seems like their 70th game in a row. Jeff Francis pitched beaut
The life and times of Big Z
For some reason someone thought it would be a good idea to write an inspirational biography of 26 yea
Austan Goolsbee: The college years
Productivity and hours worked
Google Street View lands in Chicago
It’s pretty awesome. It covers essentially the whole city, inclu
Barbaro redux
This is
Why I shop for groceries in the South Loop
This is all you need
Hyde Park Progress
I have just been alerted to the existence of the best blog I’ve seen in a while–perhaps since Baseba
Quick hits
It’s a busy day, so I’m going to keep this quick.
1) TNR, which I usually adore, has a des
Hyde Park activism misses the Point
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
McCain on the presidency: Only Christians need apply
In in an interview Saturda
Justin Wolfers at Marginal Revolution
Super empirical economist Justin Wolfers is going to be guest blogging at Marginal Revolution.
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Who needs football?
Tomorrow, the impossible is quite possible.
If the Padres lose and the Mets, Phillies, and
Quote of the day1
Why no one likes Boston sports fans
The new guy
There is a new sheriff in town, and his name is Tim Murphy.
Yes, the super-Maroon-editor,
That guy2
It’s the start of a new school year at the U of C which means a whole new batch of students who will
Dissecting the “that guy” species
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Harper Court to be sold
The Hyde Park Herald reports that the Harper Court
Zimmer, thus far
For many students at the U of C, Robert Zimmer’s tenure as president has been shaky. He has changed t
Class of 2011
This is sort of interesting, the class of 2011 is going to be
2008 US News college rankings leaked: Chicago remains at 9
Here are the 2008 US News College rankings:
Best National Universities
1. Princeton U
Hyde Park Herald & community: Killing Hyde Park one day at a time
So on Thursday I was walking back to work after lunch down Kimbark Ave. and I spotted two very odd caGoogle Street View coming to Chicago
Bethany is #1
More on the pay gap myth
The Crimson is reporting that the bas
Wild ride1
(Hat
Attack of the books
D.C. to get a seat at the table?
Over at Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen has a very interesting
Sure it works in reality, but does it work in theory?
Why should we care?
Yglesias’s fallacy
Matthew Yglesias, who is normally quite good, has a terrible
Spitzer and the free market
Greg Mankiw had an interesting p
ROTC bans counterproductive to their cause
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
It’s not the economics, stupid!
“War on Terror” only a good name for pols
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
The line between terrorism and a plain old attack
The big news today is that an attack on a U.S. Army base was caught before it happened. But it was fu
Facebook11
In case you were wondering how far the Facebook has permeated into society, you can now conveniently
Lede of the year
TNR editorializing on Chris
Good economics doesn’t make good politics
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Don’t turn back the clock on abortion
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Hyde Parkers need to realize the benefits of capitalism
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Global warming3
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…Holocaust denial laws
Censoring Holocaust denial is hypocritical
Bananas and terrorism
Remember those anti-dr
KSK and torture
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (the other KSK in my life) has r
Giuliani and Chavez
Rudy Giuliani’s law firm repre
HP Herald and Obama
Sometimes the Hyde Park Herald is a decent local newspaper. It has had really strong coverage of the
Oh, snap1
The Crimson does what I
China becomes superficial
This just in, superficialit
Top five stretch of songs on an album
Alright, so here is the question of the day. What is the best ~10 minute stretch of consecutive songs
Vote for a good artist for Summer Breeze
Best movie action sequences
Day light savings
I was all for adjusting the dates of the start and end of day light savings time, until I found it it
LA Times clueless
The LA Times had this to
Richter for Congress
How awesome is this:
Althou
On the Cubs
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…Point—Counterpoint: Next year still nowhere in sight for the North Side
Neurotic mouse clicking
A couple of weeks ago the NY Times started a new feature where if you double click on a word a window
More on fair trade coffee
Here is what this
Fair trade coffee1
I made my triumphant return to the Viewpoints section today to
Cartoons!6
I don’t know why I’ve linked to so many things from the Harvard Crimson lately, but this
Hilarity
Hurting the third world one latte at a time
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Trends2
Ivy League garb t
Is a Rhodes worth it?
Video of the day3
Georgia sucks
Georgia is really on fire lately in its attempt to show the country how much of a backwater it is. Th
Best Crime Report ever
Video of the day4
I haven’t done this in a while.
Super Bowl Sunday
Zimmer released the decisiU of C decides not to divest from Sudan
Point–Counterpoint: nothing likeable about bad news Bears
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Mark your calendar
State of the Union2
What if Jeb were president, more like what if George wasn’t president
Life for sale
Best sports blog ever
OK, maybe it is the second best sports blog ever, after the Maroon Sports Blog, but you should go che
Good riddance
New Haven is continuing its progression from crap hole (when I grew up in Morse tower I’d hear gun sh
Finally8
My new line of shoes
Hack of the day
After TNR’s Michael Crowley slammed
Remember 527s? The FEC finally did.
Yesterday the Federal Election Commission ruled that Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the League of Con
The Ahmednejad look?
According to CNN’s Jeff Greenfield
Democrats lose the Senate?
Baseball Prospectus: A U of C designed conspiracy?
It has been brought to my attention that Nate Silver, who appears to be the main blogger on the Baseb
Beauty and the Geek responses
My post
Video of the day5
U of C superstar economist and Freakonomics author Steven Levitt is
Saller goes to Stanford
Stanford solidifies
Baseball Prospectus blog
If you are interested in serious baseball coverage and don’t want to pay to read Baseball Prospectus’
Beauty and the Geek with no U of C people?!
My roommate showed me that the cast of t
Stigler’s law of eponymy
It is fitting to post this right before my Statistics final.
Shakespeare≠Andrew Lloyd Webber
Making a stand
The Harvard Crimson Editorial Board on the University of Southern California’s
Video of the day6
Make amends
Raul Castro is interested
Why I kinda like the Uncommon application protests
I have to admit that I have somewhat conflicting feelings about this whole Uncommon application todo.
US News gives U of C more love
Well thi
Calderon
Accepting the Common application
Finals10
Blogging is likely to be slow from me as finals start next week. But, if I finish all that I need to
Christian Coalition shows its true colors
Maroon in Newsweek
Newsweek references t
Hack of the day1
Point–Counterpoint: Why I don’t root for the Red Sox anymore
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
U of C keeps early action
Traffic has really spiked here lately. A fair number of the hits we’ve been getting have to do with pTraffic4
Why I don’t care much for the Red Sox anymore
John Edwards: What a hack
What to do about AIDS in Africa
Emily Oster‘s research
Becker and Posner on Friedman
Becker’s take is he
Most ill informed sentence of the week
49ers at .500!
Picture of the day
Ahhh
Plans43
I’ll be gone this weekend, starting tomorrow, so no blogging from me until Sunday.
The Wire and homosexuality
Democrats avoid taking a hard turn left
Andrew Sullivan posts an
More on Friedman
Friedman18
As George notes, Milton Friedman has passed away.
This man is essentially the founder of t
Still getting the world’s brain drain
Post 9/11 the number of visas issued to foreigners to study in the US dropped significantly. This dev
Are sports teams an inferior good?
Are sports franchises in your city an inferior g
Tierney on Borat
John Tierney makes a good po
Headline of the day
The Daley dynasty
So much for anyone giving Daley a run for his money in the next Mayoral election. Today both candidat
Video of the day8
This video/song is pure genius. It will trap you and you won’t be able to stop watching until you’ve
A bigger loser than K-Fed?
This news might come as refreshing for K-Fed, looks like someone might not be as big of a loser as he
In defense of Intrade
Ezra Klein links to what
Column of the day
Ann Coulter justifying
Summary of recent minimum wage research
Something tells me vote
The 100 most influential Americans
The Atlantic is doing an issue on the 100 most influential Americans. You can vote (
What matters in elections
It wouldn’t be the Editors Blog if I didn’t tie the election in with some research out of the Chicago
Minimum wage referenum
Dems take VA
At least according to MSNBC and the AP.
Democrats: The party of Lou Dobbs?
Greg Mankiw has a post
Borat: Real or staged
The finale? The prostitute? Staged.
Almost everything else? Apparently real.
Ch
Other big issues
While there is tons of big news issues already, the Supreme Court had hearings today on the constitut
Why dump Rummy now?
Pizza wars
People might forget that the election isn’t the only big issue today:
Video of the day9
Quick hits2
1) The AP and MSNBC (and CNN as George notes below) have called Montana for Tester. That means the on
MT and VA look safe
More election updates
1. Not only did Democrats do well last night, but Democratic
Election updates1
As of 1:02am McCaskill is declaring victory. Now going to sleep for reals.
As of 12:58am I
Fagles!
Robert Fagles has a n
Video of the day10
Tony Blair – Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Houdini, the spy?
We’ll be seeing a movie v
Too hot for TNR
Gender and wages
I have a big midterm tomorrow that (I feel) I am woefully under prepared for so blogging will be limi
T.O.330
Is Terrell Owens capable of not stabbing his quarterbacks in the back?
First, he called Je
Campaign ad of the day
I think I’ve blogged about this in the past, but I want to set the record straight on something I verName game1
Video of the day11
The pen is mightier
Or in this case, the textbook is mightier. A cantidate for Oklahoma state superindendent is
Vitriol never pays off
It is always (good) news when Hugo Chavez suffers a publicly humiliating setback. He has been making
Porn and rape: Complements or substitues?
When my friends doubt that economics can offer a way of looking at anything, s
Fantasy Congress
Sudan: Not so simple after all
A sound opinion on college admissions
Have a drink
We estimate the relat
Most negative ads ever, redux
Sunstein on Obama
There has been a parade of columns and articles in the last couple of days on whether Barak Obama sho
Facebook changes that may actually be worth wasting your time over
Everyone may have gotten upset over Facebook’s new tool, “mini-feeds,” but that change would be silly
Schumer is made a fool of
Mankiw shames Sc
Congrats
I still don’t understand what he actually does, but I hope to be able to apply myself as successfully
Email2
All summer I was averaging about 1-3 non-spam emails a day. Today classes started and my non-spam ema
Chomsky, RIP??
Eric Clapton
Last night I saw Eric Clapton perform at the United Center. Here are a couple initial thoughts:
Random thought
I find that it is infinitely easier to convey my thoughts after reading. Particularly after reading <
The Olympics in Hyde Park? Essentially.
Chicago234
Spent most of today packing up and doing last minute chores. Tomorrow I’m headed back to Chicago. Blo
Slamming progressives on minimum wage
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Soriano anyone?
Everyone on ESPN is talking about the NL MVP race being between Ryan Howard and Albert Pujols but how
Peretz’s new blog
A hotel for Hyde Park?
One shortcoming of the UChicago campus is its lack of a hotel for visitors. As a result, parents, fri
Someone who really needs the US to capture bin Laden
A teacher has been waiting t
A cooler head prevails
9/111
I didn’t write an obligatory 9/11 post yesterday (I spent my blogging time yesterday packing up for m
The plight of urban black men
No, Wal-Mart isn’t a monopsony
Last week Ezra Klein claimed that Wal-Mart was a monopsony because of its threats made over the prosp
Harvard nixes early admissions
Reality based politics in Chicago?
Daley has gone ahead and vetoed the miserable “big-box” ordinance passed earlier this summer. He stil
Oh dear
This post is likely to set off
Guilt and sorrow upon Blair’s exit
Facebook uproar
Video of the day12
Boogaloo Shrimp!
Kobe calls for better team chemistry?!
I found this ESPN article h
PS3 release cut
Sports Ethics: Little League Edition
Eugene Volokh a p
US Higher Education
Is Wal-Mart a monopsony?
Ezra Klein thinks so, here i
Karl Rove news
Andrew Sullivan had two newsworthy nuggets about Karl Rove today.
Finally a little boy whose dad is as powerful as every little boy views their dad:Today’s civics lesson
“Let me
Car subscription services
The idea of owning a car in Chicago is overwhelming, let alone the idea of owning one in a jam packed
Fun editorials at the LA Times
The LA Times had two fun editorials on subjects that don’t typically warrant such attention.
Ahmadinejad is crazy, but Iran is no Nazi Germany
Bizzare story of the day
The Brandeis tennis team no longer has to worry about co-blogger George Anesi, but they do have to wo
Kidnap this man, now
Video of the day13
Blog news
Matthew Yglesias has condensed all his blogging into one bl
Bizzare story of the day1
Strippers are becoming
Why you should never trust government statistics
Greg Mankiw has a
Mayer returns to weenie status?
I always figured that John Mayer was a huge weenie. Then he started touring with the John Mayer Trio.
Story of the day2
Story of the day:
US Marines guarding Saddam Hussein have been
A new business model for online music
Traveling3
I’ll be mostly out of commission until Friday as I am visiting family in California.
Democratic strategy for ’06: Do nothing
At TNR, Peter Beinert has an interestin
Emanuel family fun
You may have never heard about the Emanuels (there are three sons, Rahm is a congressman from Illinoi
Stupid security policies
It is so absurd that the government, in its attempts to ensure the security of airplanes would ban al
Stem Cell Advance?
Best villain ever
Basically, this is a
Public sector unions
Video of the day14
Suspicions confirmed
Sudanese writer and activist Kola Boof, 37, claims in “Diary of a Lost Girl” that she wasWhitney Houston’s #1 fan: Osama bin Laden
Another moderate bites the dust
Bush overcompensates for his lack of intellectual cred
Ezra Klein had a very funny po
Yglesias on mom and pops
The best of Bill O’Reilly
Tall people are better
On average, taller peop
California raises the minimum wage, why this is good news
Arrested Development DVD extras
Unions lead to equality? Since when?
The Chicago School of Economics’ official wristband
Rice to retire as a 49er
It is absurd that this took so long
Are you a Yankees or Sox fan: A report from no-man’s land
The woes of Wal-Mart
It has been a tough week for Wal-Mart, the retailer everyone loves to hate.
How UChicago went from 15th to 9th in one year
In my earlier post on how the hell the UChicago jumped from 15th to 9th “best college” in the country
Chicago moves up, not that anyone should care
It’s time to get these mothafucking bees of this mothafucking plane
Successes of my goofy brethern
The man who gives every goofy, lanky legged p
US News College rankings2
US News and World Report College Rankings come out tomorrow. I know that the rankings have seriously
Why haven’t moderate Republicans switched party?
While driving into work today there was some stupid call-in show on NPR. One of the guests made refer
An athlete truly gives back to the community
So often major black figures harm the prospects of black youths by providing them false hope that the
Lieberman is back on top
Good news from Connecticut today, Lieberman is, yet again, trouncing Lamont in
Factoid of the day
Coolest thing I’ve read about i
When rhetoric and the aims of that rhetoric collide
I spent much of my allotted blogging time today putting together a column for the orientation issue o
A good day for some very bad people
Running Carlos Zambrano into the ground
Leave it to the Cubs to run their only consistently healthy pitcher, Carlos Zambrano,
Video of the day15
In honor of seeing Derek Trucks rip it up on
Weeds
Bizarre polling results
Over at TAPPED, there is a bri
The 49ers actually play well
One of the stupidest arguments in favor of the Big-Box ordinance in Chicago is that keeping Wal-MartWhat small shops?
Should Democrats become more conservative economically?
Should the Democratic party move to the center on economic issues? Well ideologically that is an easy
So glad I am not a DC intern
Immigration and labor
A Pew
Obrador’s case for a recount
I’m back in service today. Wow does moving suck.
Anyways, I found
Sorry for the blogging absence today, I’ve been busy helping my family move into a new house. I shoulVideo of the day16
Markets in everything: Mummified bodies
Douche bag update
I’ve read a couple of people’s favorite bits of the Joe Francis (creator of “Girls Gone Wild”)
Stupid welfare policies
How Colbert gets his guests, part deux
Talladega Nights and the evolution of Will Ferrel’s career
I saw Will Ferrel’s newest movie, Talladega Nights ove
Why I’m voting for Lieberman
Douche bag alert
This probably doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but the creator of Girls Gone Wild–Joe Francis–
More mass slaughter of dogs in China
In regards to my ear
Senior political science professors at the U of C
Via Greg Mankiw, I found this piece by Dan Drezner f
France takes on Google??
Apparently the French government is spending millions in an attempt to develop a French alternative t
Arrested Development quote of the day
Buster finds his mother sleeping with hi
Cool factoid of the day
How fast does the eye t
Minimum wage hike rejected
Headline choices don’t prove much
Trust me, Hollywood is liberal
Andrew Sullivan had a very la
Bizzare class-action lawsuit ad
Ezra Klein has a post on theThe deterrent effect of terrible prison conditions
Uh oh
Lieberman is losing even more
China’s doggy death squads
I’m not much of an animal rights activist (like Cass Sunstein
The legitimate (but offensive) questions of the day
Just as I worried
Professional certification
My old economics professor, John List (whose research I discussed
Arrested Development quote of the day1
Buster to Michael:
That’s what you do when life hands you a chance to be with someone spec
Voters reject intelligent design
I wonder if Castro was ever really all that sick. I mean, does this strike you as the type of guy whoCastro’s illness is no reason to celebrate
Ad of the day1
Video of the day17
The Plank had two very amusing stories today:The most absurd stories of the day
EITC3
The spread of extreme Islamist government
Chicago has gotten a lot of attention lately for the actions of the city government. Earlier in the yHow far has the Chicago city council really gone?
More reason to prefer the EITC to the minimum wage
While the Senate debates raising the unproven and logically flawed minimum wage, I found
The record industry reaps what it sows
Slate had this interesting discussion of the
Since when is this blog anti-Israel? Since Google decided we were.
I wonder if the ADL knew what they were getting themselves into
Let the Swiftboating begin
This really got me pissed off:
Tar baby and every other epithet you’re suppose to know, but never say
On Saturday, Mitt Romney, the Governor of Massachusetts who is also widely considered to be a potenti
Rochester: Battle of the analogies
Tim wondered why
Sticking it to Ashlee Simpson
Aaron Russo, who seems like a more radical version of Michael Moore, is coming out with a movie evenDocumentarians gone awry
Video of the day18
Andrew Sullivan is right about this Colbert interview, which
What do North Pole expeditions tell us about the private vs. public debate
While working today I found this
Betting on everything
Tyler Cowen links
Minimum wage hike might become policy, not just rhetoric anymore
How Colbert gets those big names on his show
I’ve always been wondering how Steven Colbert gets so many high profile guests, well Neal Katyal, who
Brokeback Aquaman
One of the most entertaining shows on this summer, Entourage, might have been onto something when the
The Brooks, Dowd, and Friedman editorial formula revealed
As someone who has become increasing tired of the NYTimes op-ed page, I found
The Landis doping allegations: Why release the information before it’s certain?
I was wondering how Bush’s polling numbers were a couple of days ago. You might remember how, in JuneBush’s latest approval ratings
Levitt on the finer things in a celebrity economist’s life
The playlists of British MPs
The BBC had this entertaining story
I miss Ashcroft too, isn’t that sad?
Good and bad Chicago news
The big box proposal will come to a vote today (details of the proposal are in the link below).Big boxes
Arrested Development movie?1
1. I don’t know if I could root for a Cubs team owned byCubs news
Harper Theater1
Something (link not stable) might
The new Razr
Roland Fryer
Damn,
This year’s Uncommon Application essay questions
One of the U of C’s most beloved institutions—if you could call it that—is the Uncommon Applicati
Quote of the day5
Turns out that, for this White House, Karl Rove’s opinion on the embryonic vs. adult stem cell debate
Price discrimination vs. lower sticker prices for college tuition
I now have a homepage
9/11 Exploitation
In case you didn’t already know that conservatives were drumming up the War on Terror and exploiting
Quick Hits7
The whole country vs. the WSJ and Kevin Federline
Maryland’s Wal-Mart healthcare law shot down
Haley Joel Osment drives what?
Video of the day19
This is one of the most offensive things I have seen in a long time. Elizabeth Smart, the Utah girl w
Barack is headed to Iowa
Obama in ’08?
That’s it! It’s time to get these motha-fucking critics off this motha-fucking plane
While the world looks away, Iraq goes even further to hell
While the whole world focuses on events in Israel,
A study tell us the obvious
Towards a coherent employment policy
To feed your hankering for top editorials of the day, I found
Doing something about U of C Law School’s “centerpiece”
Save your breath
A good veto to be remembered for
The scoopees become the scoopers
While George is
Vote or Lose out on big money
As George notes (now h
Something to unite the world
Alright, so here are my top five favorite albums. 1. “Layla” by Derek and the Dominos: ItTop Five: Albums3
The worst song on a near perfect album
I don’t mean to preview my best album list for tomorrow, but
Ted Stevens – Pipes (Remix)
Senator Ted Stevens, the man who has come to define bringing home the bacon with his bridges to nowhe
I’d be happy too
The widow of slain WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl will be played by Angelina Jolie. Upon hearing that,
Giuliani in ’08
New feature1
From now on, every Friday I am going to do a top five list.
Why? Because, I want to and fo
Reasons to like soccer more than American football
Euguene Volokh li
Chicago makes its Olympic bid
While the idea of billions focusing their attention on Chicago sounds like a great proposition, I don
Weekly Standard drops the ball
At the start of the World Cup, the Weekly Standard went off on soccer as
Interesting developments
Why did Gaddafi give in to the US?
You might remember that a couple of years ago, in a total change of face, Muammar Gaddafi
Battle of the libraries: What the Reg could learn from the Yale Law library
Working at the Yale Law School library this summer has got me thinking a lot about libraries. I’ve fo
Zidane’s new move
As Tim noted (ironic
Video of the day20
While this blog seems consumed with sports lately I figured I’d make this video of a high school Regg
Video of the day21
In honor of the World Cup final and Zidane’s last game, here is a sweet video of his signature move:
Rooting for France
Over at OxBlo
Brooks on Lieberman
As usual Brooks produces sweeping generalizations about the state of politics from next to nothing in
53rd St. Co-Op to become new home of Hyde Park Produce
Stupidest thing I’ve read today
Economics of gender in the blogosphere
I got thinking about gender in the blogosphere today when I stumbled on the now resurrected blog
Lieberman’s woes
Much like his last move,
David Bernstein vs. Freakonomics
The press and the government
There has been a lot of hoopla over the disclosure that the US government was legally monitoring inte
The Devil Wears Prada
For some reason everyone in the blogosphere has seen this movie (
Paying non-farmers not to farm
Thomas is pwned
In his dissent in the Hamdan case, Justice Clarence Thomas h
Rooting for America
George’s post earlier
Beauty of townships
Whose responsible for bogus rape allegations?
As much as I don’t like preppy lacrosse players, it seems like the Duke Lacrosse team members (likely
Misinterpreting the Hamdan decision
The NY Times has
Oh boy2
This is all extremly tenative, especially considering that the ruling was made ten minutes ago,
NY Times controversy
Everyone seems a little baffled by the reaction from conservatives and Bush about the NY Times’ repor
Russian anger
Flag burning scare?
George noted earlier how close the Senate’s vote on the flag burning amendment (it was shot down by j
Shameless promotion
Sign that the immigration debate has bottomed out
Don Goldwater, nephew of the late Sen. Barry Goldwater, caused an international stir this
Minimum Wage9
Despite the fact that we have a resident “expert” on the minimum wage, I think Paul Krugman got it ri
Hitler or Coulter?
I’ve avoided commenting on the whole to do about the utterly useless Anne Coulter, but this is just t
Futurama returns
Quick Hits10
Normally I’d write something for all of these, but I’d actually like to do something tonight, so inst
Re: Brooks and changing political parties
Now Hammon
Brooks on the real ideological division in America
Wanna raise money? Have hot women do it for you
For purposes of contrast, Professor List and his team then increased the attractiveness o
Fred Barnes Redux
My boy, Fred Barnes, has
The Czech Republic? I don’t even know where that is!
The internet is a small world
Get this admin a PR person
Video of the day22
Things will be slow until Sunday because I am moving my life back to Connecticut for the summer. In t
Rock, papers, scissors, the ultimate dispute resolution
Upon consideration of the Motion – the latest in a series of Gordian knots that the par
Grade inflation2
There is a small discussion going on about grade inflation at
Is Zarqawi’s death reason to celebrate?
George might have beaten me to this, but here is what I wrote anyways:
Iraq’s most famous
Video of the day23
I started this video of the day thing completely unaware that I would be able to find decent videos e
Somalia: Or why we shouldn’t withdraw from Iraq
The present state of thing
The new frontiers of economics
I have been half-involved in a debate over at Marginal Revolution on
Jeb Bush tells us what is and isn’t history
Video of the day24
I normally don’t like Jon Stewart’s interviews, but he really sticks it to Bill Bennett on gay marria
Obama has some fun with Colbert
Video of the day25
This video, called
Video of the day26
This is amazing, 200 liters of diet Coke and 500 Mentos.
The many layers of the Darfur situation
I had always thought Darfur was a pretty simple case of genocide of a Christian minority.
SCOTUS and the FBI raids
It’s finals week so my procrastination has taken the form of blogging. Anyways, former OxBlogger Josh
Moral responsibility and the law
Dan Kahan on the moral responsibility of lawyers in relation to the torture memos as given in his
Fred Barnes1
Michelle Wie
The media loves to hype any attempt by a female to outdo the men (just remember the hype surrounding
Swiss AIDS campaign
Hyde Park116
In an extremely sad post Dan Drezner bids
Mercenaries to Darfur
Does gerrymandering really impact electoral success?
Two Harvard economists conten
Endless fun with graphs
More Zimbabwe Woes
It only gets worse from here.
Gore in ’08???
Perhaps I should start believing the hype
I have been skeptical about the bird flu hype for along time, well if this is true, there is
I knew something was wrong with Utah
Not only does it offer 15th Century notions concerning sexuality and gender equality, but you also ge
Darfur activists need to put up or shut up
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Simpsons Movie?!
Check out the trailer…funn
Race changing cream
Troops along the border
Comments are up/ Do you see a banner??
Let the commenting begin, but before people can actually comment on our arguments I have a special re
What to do about Ahmadinejad’s letter
Dan Drezner had another great tidbit on h
You know this one hurts
While Bush’s poll numbers would have a hard time getting any worse, CNN
Burkas
Qwest: The telecommunications firm that doesn’t illegally violate your privacy
Thoughts on the Bush presidency
This past week has really been a microcosm of the Bush presidency. In many ways he is just like Reaga
Luttig resignation theories
Earlier this week the legal blogosphere was perculating from the news that super-star conservative Fo
Moussaoui
Frank Deford: The man, the look
While Hammond might enj
Why I won’t be seeing Mission Impossible 3
Does the death penalty actually deter homicide?
Ever since Paul Ehrlich’s 1975 paper on t
Re: Divestment
Let me explain myself further on a couple Sudan related matters.
Rational petrol politics
Pelosi gets owned
For someone unlikely to ever wake up in time for the Sunday morning talk shows,
Ahmadinejad’s Mein Kampf
The law and “special” cookies
Not even Mearsheimer can rationalize this one away
Apparently fresh off of threatenin
Darfur might unite, but what good is that?
While genocide seems to be something that everyone can get together on (for discussions on this check
The Da Vinci Code, the Catholic Church, and free expression
Over at Volokh Conspiracy a number of really interesting points have been made about statements made
Lieberman’s challenge
Senator Joe Lieberman (full disclosure: I briefly campaigned for Lieberman in 2004, though mostly as
Poker, Prostitutes, and the CIA
Porter Goss’s resignation seemed utterly uninteresting to me until I found out poker and prostitutes
Thank god1
This just might be my experience in dealing with the type of constituents that call into Congressiona
When it rains it pours
And just when you thought things could get no worse in Zimbabwe,
Affinity for unelected officials
One of the most interesting things about the spate of generals coming out against Secretary of Defens
Housing Options: Shoreland Hall
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Finally, an approach to organ donation better than complete apathy
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
You’re not allowed to say that about Israel
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Summers coup is a failure for all
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
America: Isolation leads only to decline
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Pay attention, America. Culture counts.
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Blaming Wal-Mart is counterproductive
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
Want to liberate Cuba? End the Embargo.
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…
The Ghetto party is simply an insensitive act of the few
George Will lays a not so subtle smack down of U of C professor Cass Sunstein’s decision to move from the U of C to Harvard: Beginning this autumn, Sunstein, while retaining a connection with Chicago, will teach primarily at…