Archive for October 15th, 2007
Belgian Stunts
The Belgians may not be able to form a government, but that doesn’t mean that they are sitting around idle. Earlier today a Belgian tourist crossed the Storebælt Bridge on bicycle.
links for 2007-10-15
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while conservatives, Republicans, and Republican voters are rare within the faculty ranks, on many issues there are as many professors who hold center/center-left views as there are those who cleave to more liberal positions
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I don’t think any institution anywhere has a too-few-Republicans problem: universities don’t need more believers in intelligent design or the appicability of the Laffer curve or the unitary executive or the genetic inferiority of Africans or more disbelie
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Question to think about: If right-wingers are underrepresented in universities relative to the population and discriminated against by the left-wing majority, as Larry suggests, should there be affirmative action for right-leaning academics?
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Fuel and mining magnate backed UK challenge to An Inconvenient Truth
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As the United States prepares for the next great debate on its ailing health-care system, support is growing for a shift from the traditional employer-based financing to publicly subsidized individual health insurance.
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…many people think of capitalism and think of centralized power (big corporations). Yet, the whole point of capitalism is to allow each individual to choose what to buy, where to work, how much to pay, how to spend their time so and so forth.
