And a “Long Tail” discussion is about the England cricket team presumably.
– Michael Jennings commenting on this at my blog this morning. Last night, England’s 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 managed a total of four runs between them.
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New Year’s Day – Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving the road to hell with them as usual – attributed to Mark Twain January 1st, 2007 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
 All governments, all people even, should be held to the same moral standards. If you allow it for Saddam or Uday, then you must allow it for Bush or Rumsfeld. If you forbid it for Bush or Blair, then you must forbid it for Saddam or Ahmadinejad. Anything else smacks of “you can’t expect any better of Middle Easterners”-style of racism, or at least cultural arrogance. Did Saddam lie about WMD? Does Bush rape women or imprison and torture small children? First set out what your standards of behaviour are, and when particular actions in response are justified, and only then consider the example set by particular nations. For if you pay more attention to Iraq than Tibet, say, people might be able to accuse you of being on the side of the tyrants, and your moralising protests no more than enemy propaganda. And you wouldn’t want that, would you? – Commenter ‘Pa Annoyed’ December 30th, 2006 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)
For my last birthday I was offered jewellery or shotguns. I chose the guns. – Elizabeth Hurley, via Robert Avrech  December 28th, 2006 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
December 26th, 2006 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph December 24th, 2006 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. December 22nd, 2006 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
“Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy”. Groucho Marx (the Marx who actually had intelligent things to say about money). December 19th, 2006 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
“Progressive taxes do not redistribute income. They redistribute taxpayers.” George Gilder, one of the early evangelists for “supply-side” economics, which is a fancy way of saying that he thinks people respond to incentives, considered a wild-eyed idea by some people. December 18th, 2006 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
If you want to make money, work directly with money. – Bernie Cornfeld’s explanation of Jonathan’s puzzle. Financial markets seek meaning, and discount luck. Financiers are therefore in a strong position to get rent from their luck as well as their brains. And a lot of other people’s money passes through their hands, so they do not have to worry about cashflow much. December 17th, 2006 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
Bragging about low unemployment under hyper-inflation is like bragging about the airspeed of aircraft in a power dive towards the ground. – Commenter Shannon Love responds to a Salvador Allende admirer’s lionising of the Chilean economy under the socialist leader. December 13th, 2006 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
Let us consider, my lords, that arbitrary power has seldom or never been introduced into any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step, lest the people should see its approach. The barriers and fences of the people’s liberty must be plucked up one by one, and some plausible pretences must be found for removing or hoodwinking, one after another, those sentries who are posted by the constitution of a free country, for warning the people of their danger. When these preparatory steps are once made, the people may then, indeed, with regret, see slavery and arbitrary power making long strides over their land; but it will be too late to think of preventing or avoiding the impending ruin. – Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, to the House of Lords in 1737 (though reported rather later) December 10th, 2006 | 27 comments - (Comments are closed)
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