A pill might trick your body into believing it's exercised. A scant year ago, I would have greeted this news with unparalleled delight and eaten a box of truffles. Now I kind of like my daily run. I use it in the same way teenagers use a bottle of peach schnapps before a dance: it takes the edge off. I'm a little concerned about these yuppie-ish ( Read more... )

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Came across this on the excellent Irvine Renter blog awhile back, covering all things housing bubble (including schadenfreude). It's a parody of those Budweiser Real American Hero commercials, starring Mr. and Mrs. Too Much Homebuyer:

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It's very, very wrong of me, but I'm getting a real kick out of these San Diego surfer dude speculators who thought ( Read more... )

To the very short list of you reading this who may become parents someday:

If you're posting on a bulletin board intended for those who are applying to graduate school on your child's behalf, and you seem just as, or more, interested in what Little Poopykin's chances are at Stanford with blah blah blah GRE scores and blah blah GPA, it really is time ( Read more... )

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With great sadness I note the passing of Cathy Seipp, a journalist who I admired greatly for her moxy and implacability in the face of politically correct elitism of various stripes. Despite this cutting wit, she was also one of those genuinely wonderful people who took the trouble to notice you. After my first Reason article ran, she sent me a ( Read more... )

(see "relying upon").

Matt's sister Wendy was supposed to visit us this weekend, but was grounded by the snowstorm in New York.
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Before I forget: thanks to
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My favorite insult in the history of insults was, until recently, this lovely little epigram from Edgar Allen Poe, "Your work is both true and original. Unfortunately, the parts that are true are not original, and the parts that are original are not true."

But in a lot of contexts, it doesn't apply, even if you change "your work" to "your thoughts ( Read more... )