Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 7:31 am, Over one day old
“Money,” said Wallace Stevens, “is a kind of poetry.” As a Pulitizer Prize-winning poet and president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, Stevens was familiar with both free verse and the free market. So if Stevens is correct, and...
Read The Poets of the Economy (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 7:31 am, Over one day old
Earlier this year, the U.S. government's implemented the Medicare Part D drug subsidy program which provides prescription drug coverage for the 42 million elderly and disabled Medicare beneficiaries. With the government now footing the bill, it is expected that the...
Read A Patent Solution:
How to Provide a Medicare Drug Benefit (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 7:31 am, Over one day old
Read My Problem with Sullivanism (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 7:31 am, Over one day old
Dear Joe, Why can't a woman over the age of sixty find a man? D.G. Dear D.G., The first question is why a woman over sixty, a woman who has lived long enough to have gained maturity and wisdom, a...
Read Single at Sixty (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 7:31 am, Over one day old
Forget the scare over avian flu; the U.S. already has an epidemic that is sweeping the nation: pessimism. Pessimism is highly contagious and appears to have already affected a large majority of America. How else can we explain polls that...
Read The Pessimism Plague:
Why America's Gloomy Self-Perception Doesn't Match Reality (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 7:31 am, Over one day old
Yak Shaving -- [MIT AI Lab, after 2000: orig. probably from a Ren & Stimpy episode.] Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the...
Read Yak Shaving Razor #51 (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 7:31 am, Over one day old
Read Deadwood in the Pews:
The Trouble with Church (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 7:31 am, Over one day old
While preparing for a law exam, Joshua Claybourn stumbled across an intriguing quotation from the federal case, Maynard v. Hill, 125 U.S. 190 (1888): Marriage, as creating the most important relation in life, as having more to do with the...
Read What God has Joined Together:
Neocalvinism, Christian Libertarianism, and the State’s Role in Marriage (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 7:31 am, Over one day old
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04.05.06 (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 7:31 am, Over one day old
Dear Joe, I’m a New York Catholic who moved to the Bible Belt about a year ago. Every day on my drive to work I pass several churches: Pentecostal, Southern Baptist, and Methodist. What exactly is the difference between them?...
Read Theologies and Toilet Seats (Links)