http://divisionoflabour.com/ en-us CardenA@rhodes.edu 2008-07-26T20:56:45-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/004950.php WebMD reports on the ambiguous research on the alleged link between cell phone use and cancer risk. Pages of commentary: four. Mentions of magnitude: zero. All of the quantiative relationships are described in terms of associations, increases, and decreases, and... 4950@http://divisionoflabour.com/ Science 2008-07-26T20:56:45-05:00 http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/004949.php The Onion outdoes itself (NB: salty language). It also teaches an important lesson about correlation and causality. So which is higher: P(celebrated|alcoholism) or P(celebrated|great author)? P(great author|alcoholism) or P(alcoholism|great author)? P(John Updike Knows Who You Are|alcoholism) or P(John Updike Knows... 4949@http://divisionoflabour.com/ Funny Stuff 2008-07-26T10:47:21-05:00 http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/004948.php Ed Stringham defends laissez-faire for alcohol on San Francisco public radio (The Costs of Alcohol Abuse, scroll down a bit). It is a spirited dialogue that winds up matching Ed against the host (a self-described quasi-teetotaler), other guests and callers... 4948@http://divisionoflabour.com/ Economics 2008-07-25T11:38:22-05:00 http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/004947.php Sobering piece by Steven Malanga: Meeting last November with the leaders of the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (Acorn)—the nationwide network of left-wing community groups that taps government money for a host of causes—Obama declared: “I’ve been fighting... 4947@http://divisionoflabour.com/ Politics 2008-07-25T11:32:46-05:00 http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/004946.php An interesting thought from the July 25, 1908 NYT:COLORADO SPRINGS - George E. Roberts, President of the Central National Bank of Chicago, and ex-Director of the Mint, was the principal speaker at to-day's meeting of the State Banker's Association. He... 4946@http://divisionoflabour.com/ Economics 2008-07-25T11:13:48-05:00 http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/004945.php An interesting quip from the July 25, 1908 NYT:The "masses" and the "classes" in England differ in this - the former are to be bought with a drink, the latter with a dinner.The same could be said of the masses... 4945@http://divisionoflabour.com/ Politics 2008-07-25T11:10:13-05:00 http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/004944.php Here's are the first and last paragraphs from an article in the New Scientist from May 2005:A gun that spits out ball bearings after spinning them to extreme speeds is being developed by a US inventor. The novel design has... 4944@http://divisionoflabour.com/ Culture 2008-07-25T11:08:41-05:00 http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/004943.php Stimulus checks for dead people.... 4943@http://divisionoflabour.com/ Misc. 2008-07-25T10:39:38-05:00 http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/004942.php It’s tough to be a lobbyist these days, baby. It’s not all capture and vote-buying as the populists would have you believe. As Kimberly Strassel writes in today's Opinion Journal, politicians have no reason not to use what leverage they... 4942@http://divisionoflabour.com/ Politics 2008-07-25T10:08:32-05:00 http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/004941.php A former student sends me this article on a summer "jobs" program in Washington DC: Samantha Baskin gets paid to be patient. One of thousands of students across the District who had pay problems in the summer youth jobs program... 4941@http://divisionoflabour.com/ Misc. 2008-07-25T10:03:25-05:00 http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/004940.php The [Augusta, GA] GreenJackets will make fun of the retired, maybe now un-retired, quarterback legend, by giving away flip flops in honor of the flip flopper. The first 100 fans through the gates for the team's August 4th game against... 4940@http://divisionoflabour.com/ Sports 2008-07-25T09:48:37-05:00 http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/004939.php The abstract of a new NBER paper: The province of Ontario has two publicly funded school systems: secular schools (known as public schools) that are open to all students, and separate schools that are open to children with Catholic backgrounds.... 4939@http://divisionoflabour.com/ Economics 2008-07-25T09:43:52-05:00 http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/004938.php These musings gathered after reading many good economic blogs recently. The newspapers are filled with articles describing how gasoline price increases are causing a financial burden on American families. They describe how households are substituting away from luxurious but thirsty... 4938@http://divisionoflabour.com/ Economics 2008-07-24T20:01:24-05:00 http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/004937.php I sent this article to the Jewish World Review in response to Dick Morris's column condemning speculators. I never heard from them, so I posted it on the Mises Blog. The opening paragraph: In a July 21, 2008 column in... 4937@http://divisionoflabour.com/ Economics 2008-07-24T18:33:23-05:00 http://divisionoflabour.com/archives/004936.php Today's local fish wrapper inteviewed a local fast food owner about today's minimum wage increase. “It’s going to be costly to all retailers,” Ferrell said. “But I don’t disapprove of it. I feel like we need to be as fair... 4936@http://divisionoflabour.com/ Economics 2008-07-24T15:22:50-05:00