Sep
27
2007

URLs du Jour

2007-09-27

  • Bryan Caplan's Reason article (referred to here) on "The 4 Boneheaded Biases of Stupid Voters" is available for free on the magazine's website, so go check it out. Don't worry, he's not talking about you. Unless he, um, is.

  • Jim Geraghty reports from beautiful Durham, NH here and here. At the former link, he reports on his encounter at downtown Libby's Bar and Grill, where:
    … the not-quite-entirely sober young lady at the bar will begin regaling you about her childhood journey to Washington and meeting "the President—I'm not sure whether it was Clinton or the one before him."
    I'm confident this was not the Pun Daughter. Who was in my sight the entire time we visited Washington.

  • I will shamelessly echo this link from Dave Barry: analysis of the ingredients of a Twinkie;

    I'll also echo Dave's identification of the key quote: "I was surprised that so many not only came from petroleum, but at least five came from rocks."

    But a close second is: "Sorbic acid is made from natural gas. That really blew my mind."