http://www.whereintheworldistony.com Currently: Singapore Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:06:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a new section of my blog, devoted to bad eating. Or more precisely, it is devoted to eating bad unintentionally. I feel this is much more damning then intention, deliberate and AWARE consumption of foods that are bad for you, because you do not know how to rationally ... http://www.whereintheworldistony.com/?p=470 I am stealing this whole thing, but I think it is great! http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=22277 http://www.whereintheworldistony.com/?p=468 This is my response to an interesting thread over at Marginal Revolutions regarding how Americans are now seeing themselves as skinnier, despite not having lost any actual weight. This being a Marginal Revolutions post, there are the inevitable conservatives, and below is my response towards one who bemoaned the typical 'leftist' ... http://www.whereintheworldistony.com/?p=461 Either Krugman is getting less wonkish, his writing is getting better, or my basic knowledge of econ is expanding, but I actually understand why current fiscal expansion is not 'crowding out' private investment, a standard current conservative complaint of Obama's policy... At least I think I get it :-) http://www.whereintheworldistony.com/?p=459 For a quick, and somewhat trite answer, it is because it is not capitalism, the system we have. Now, like most debates about a binary choice, the 'grass is greener' nature/motivation/neural imperative of humanity comes into play, but even this conservative bastion noted something funny.... But a college degree ... http://www.whereintheworldistony.com/?p=456 When I was reading 'Supercrunchers', there came a short section detailing the standard deviations among IQ and the associated bell curve distribution. Based on what I tentatively know about my IQ, an this chart, I am between 2 and three 3 standard deviations above normal. (I offered more than 3 ... http://www.whereintheworldistony.com/?p=452 I love reading and storing information like this guy What can I say....diet really seems the best word here. I feel like those who don't have much intellectual curiosity must be starving. http://www.whereintheworldistony.com/?p=444 I was at a crowded Subway yesterday. As I was standing in line, a large group of Asians got up and left, leaving their table in a revolting shamble. Since the people behind the counter were hardly lounging about, the odds of the table getting cleaned any time soon seemed ... http://www.whereintheworldistony.com/?p=442 http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/04/fiscal-responsibility.html Mankiw is right to comment on the stupidity of the Obama admin spending time f^%$ing around with a tiny fraction of the budget....it is a game...a stupid one...just like every time a Republican opens his mouth regarding the seriousness of Earmarks, which make up a tiny fraction of a percent ... http://www.whereintheworldistony.com/?p=438 I just listened to your Klosterman dialogue, (between him and Simmons) and I felt that he missed a critical issue in the relative nature of your ESPN position "the box" versus a columnist for a paper, and that would be the threshold. What I mean, specifically, is the level of ... http://www.whereintheworldistony.com/?p=437