December 2003

– Do you suppose this sort of thing is why terrorists wanted to crash a plane in Vegas.

– This is a beautiful expression of the human spirit:
I first became interested in male lactation in 1978 after reading Dana Raphael’s book, The Tender Gift: Breastfeeding. Although Raphael only dealt with the subject briefly, she did say that men can and have produced milk after stimulating their nipples.
My husband, David, and I were intrigued [...]

– I’m guest blogging at Radley’s over the Holidays. So look for me over there, although I may be crossposting some stuff here, too.

– I’m in the midst of writing a fairly difficult paper on ideal and non-ideal theory in Rawls’s moral & political theory, my ideas are rather inchoate, and I want to think “out loud” in hope of clarifying my understanding and maybe getting some useful pointers by those who know this stuff better than me. [...]

– Try this fascinating Washington Post bigthink piece by Everett Erlich on Coase, the transactions costs of political organization, Dean, and the death of the big two.

– I’ve finally updated my blogroll. I’ve rectified some unconscionable omissions of friends, and removed a few links pointing to nothingmuchville.

– I just ran across this great little essay by Don Boudreaux on his Mason homepage. I remember when I first grasped Don’s lesson. It was some time in my sophomore year of college. The lesson? That I am unfathomably wealthy, due to no special effort on my part, just in virtue of the economic [...]

– Mainstream economic theory just assumes a market and just assumes a state that can correct market failures and provide for public goods. But the world doesn’t work this way, and it’s a problem that some economists think it does.
There are always markets of some sort or other. But they’re fairly primitive and limited except [...]

– Well, it looks like we may have more or less beat the smoking ban. But it’s not over yet. The vote has yet to be scheduled, as far as I know, and there’s the opportunity for a lot of politicking before then. So vigilant we must remain.
Yesterday’s Council hearing made plain who the [...]