Dancing around the flower pole
I haven't checked out "This Blog Sits at the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics" for a while. In the front page, I noticed the post "The men and women of Moscow"
that wonders why the women in Moscow are so totally hot. I have read
this same observation many times from other people, so I guess I have
to believe it to be true. Initially I had assumed that this is just a
result of distorted sampling due to fact that thanks to his Western
currency, the Western observer gets to observe the top tier of Russian
women. But now that I think of women who were originally from Russia or
Ukraine who I have met during my time in this big multicultural city of
Toronto, these women really seem to be better looking and have better
personalities than average. American and Canadian gamma males should
certainly take heed of this.
Next, the post "Advice to a young consultant" explains the real rules of the road. The post "Spontaneous terror" examines the recently arrested Toronto section of Islamic fighters, and notes that the scariest thing about this gang is their lack of connections to Al Qaeda. Now that I heard in the morning news that in Miami another group of similar alienated youth activists was captured, it will be interesting to see if the same observations hold here.
In the post "Personscan: High Tech High Anxiety, Just 40 Years Away!", Kevin T. Keith of "Sufficient Scruples" wonders the same question that I asked in my earlier post about Ray Kurzweil's book "Singularity is Near": what use is it for me if my brain is scanned and my personality is uploaded to enjoy the virtual Big Rock Candy Mountain, if my consciousness still continues to exist here in its original packaging? The post "Synthetic Survival" at "Philosophy, et cetera" continues with the same topic.
"Clublife" is another blog I haven't checked out for a while. The doorman's existential post "Stupid, silly life" ponders the great meaninglessness of it all.
In the economics front, EconLog has two interesting posts "Intellectual Gladiators" and "Ten Ideas Worth Thinking About". At Cafe Hayek, the post "Testing the Logic of Minimum-Wage Legislation" makes a proposition that should certainly help the poor people: make a "minimum car price" law that forbids selling any used car for less than $25K. This way, the poor people could sell their beaters and get money to support their families. Speaking of which, I noticed that the co-blogger Donald Boudreaux has a series of columns in Pittsburgh Tribune.
Clayton Cramer has finally seen "Sin City", and hooboy, does he dislike it in his post "Sin City: A Movie That Doesn't Qualify As Obscene, But Should".
FuturePundit informs us that "Thorium Nuclear Reactor Designs Advancing".
Fjordman has an excellent post "Political Correctness — The Revenge of Marxism" that explains where leftists still get their marching orders.
Next, the post "Advice to a young consultant" explains the real rules of the road. The post "Spontaneous terror" examines the recently arrested Toronto section of Islamic fighters, and notes that the scariest thing about this gang is their lack of connections to Al Qaeda. Now that I heard in the morning news that in Miami another group of similar alienated youth activists was captured, it will be interesting to see if the same observations hold here.
In the post "Personscan: High Tech High Anxiety, Just 40 Years Away!", Kevin T. Keith of "Sufficient Scruples" wonders the same question that I asked in my earlier post about Ray Kurzweil's book "Singularity is Near": what use is it for me if my brain is scanned and my personality is uploaded to enjoy the virtual Big Rock Candy Mountain, if my consciousness still continues to exist here in its original packaging? The post "Synthetic Survival" at "Philosophy, et cetera" continues with the same topic.
"Clublife" is another blog I haven't checked out for a while. The doorman's existential post "Stupid, silly life" ponders the great meaninglessness of it all.
In the economics front, EconLog has two interesting posts "Intellectual Gladiators" and "Ten Ideas Worth Thinking About". At Cafe Hayek, the post "Testing the Logic of Minimum-Wage Legislation" makes a proposition that should certainly help the poor people: make a "minimum car price" law that forbids selling any used car for less than $25K. This way, the poor people could sell their beaters and get money to support their families. Speaking of which, I noticed that the co-blogger Donald Boudreaux has a series of columns in Pittsburgh Tribune.
Clayton Cramer has finally seen "Sin City", and hooboy, does he dislike it in his post "Sin City: A Movie That Doesn't Qualify As Obscene, But Should".
FuturePundit informs us that "Thorium Nuclear Reactor Designs Advancing".
Fjordman has an excellent post "Political Correctness — The Revenge of Marxism" that explains where leftists still get their marching orders.
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