Jacob Christensen

I’m sure AaB is as disappointed as Glasgow Rangers after the Scottish side went down against Kaunas in the qualification for CL. A match against Rangers had pulled a bigger crowd and AaB is well advised not to underestimate the Lithuanians.

In case you’ve seen the blog behaving in an odd way earlier today, then the reason is that updating the Bad Behavior-plugin (one of several weapons designed to push spamsters and sploggers off this site) zapped something completely – in fact so completely that even I couldn’t log in.

So for the moment I have removed BB.

• James Surowiecki – The Permission Problem: Financial Page: The New Yorker
  But Heller shows that having too much ownership creates its own problems. If too many people own individual parts of a valuable asset, it�s easy to end up with gridlock, since any one person can simply veto the use of the asset.
  (tags: economics law patents)
• Welfare payments and crime | vox – Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
  Crime rises when US welfare recipients run short of cash at the end of the month. This column discusses research that links the timing of financially-motivated crime and the timing of welfare payments.
  (tags: usa sociology economics socialpolicy crime)
• Kenan Malik – Mistaken identity | New Humanist
  The demand that because a cultural practice has existed for a long time, it should be preserved is a modern version of the naturalistic fallacy � the belief that �ought� derives from �is�.
  (tags: society politics philosophy multiculturalism culture)

Nostalgia-blooging here. The place has some importance for me: Back in 1999 it was Il Fratello, a reasonably upmarket Italian restaurant, and it was here I had my first dinner in Ume�.

Later it became a pub, known as Lottas Krog (Lotta’s Inn)

Pew Research Center tells us:

Fully 78% of campaign stories from January 1 through May 4, 2008 examined by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism focused on political tactics, strategy or the state of the horserace, as opposed to policy, background or personal issues. Policy topics made up 7% of the stories, personal matters, 7%, and public record, 2%.