He was sometimes called the "Last American Institutionalist," a title which is perhaps technically inaccurate, but he was certainly the last with any serious notoriety.

When President Nixon needed economic advice, he called upon the giants of the field to fight out their ideas in the oval office. He called on Milton Friedman and John Kenneth ( Read more... )

What would be in a Museum of Stupidity?

In Laura's journal, she pejoratively referred to an art museum in San Jose as the 'museum of stupidity.'

So the question I pose to my fair readers is: what would be exhibited in a real Museum of Stupidity?

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Republican family values, everybody:

In the mix in the Duke Cunningham [R-CA] scandal were some 'hospitality suites' in DC where the defense contracting fat cats who bribed Duke also got him and other members of Congress prostitutes

Meanwhile, George Bush is down to 32% in one poll. Can we make it down to the twenties if Karl Rove gets ( Read more... )

In the memo released by the FDA, Dr. Curtis Rosebraugh, an agency medical officer, wrote: "As an example, she [Woodcock] stated that we could not anticipate, or prevent extreme promiscuous behaviors such as the medication taking on an 'urban legend' status that would lead adolescents to form sex-based cults centered around the use of Plan B."
There ( Read more... )

The Bush administration may have acted rudely towards the People's Republic of Chinese leader through his whole trip, but in the end they showed that they really do admire the guy.

See? They took a page from the PRC's book and threw a Falun Gong protester in jail. It just goes to show that they really do care.

A poll by Fox is reporting that President Bush's approval rating has fallen to. . . 33%. That means that only one in three Americans approves of the President.
This is an approval rating that is so abysmal that it made me wonder how his popularity measures up against other poll questions. Here goes:

( What is more popular than George W. Bush? )

I don't have enough to say about either of these things to really qualify them for full posts, but together it's not so bad.

First up: a study finds that more equal gender relations leads to better sex. To which I say: duh. It's a bit like that study they did where they found out that excessive pot smoking causes memory loss. The fact that ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that I may not have been entirely fair to the Republicans in Congress pushing for stricter immigration rules and to the Americans who support such policies. I suggested, in an earlier post, that their primary concern is that they do not want to have brown-skinned, Spanish-speaking people to move into the United States; that their ( Read more... )

China has announced that they have performed the world's second human face transplant operation, after successfully transplanting the face of a rabbit (just in time for Easter!).

Why do I find this interesting?

"The institute that performed the transplant is the only unit in the Chinese People's Liberation Army specializing in plastic surgery, ( Read more... )