Compulsory voting
What are your views on compulsory voting? I think I'm in favour of it. I've always been surprised that right leaning parties don't try to...
The intervention – item # 476
In reading for Best Blog Posts 07 there are several first rate posts on the aboriginal intervention. And one of them linked to this fascinating...
Christopher Hitchins on Robert Hughes
Christopher Hitchens has some strange views. But it's not hard to see why he gets published. Triffic writing - as for example in this post...
International negotiation as if it mattered: Send in the economists
To your right is a graph of carbon emissions - megatons of C02 equivalent per annum. We'll get to them in a sec. As Dani...
Giving internationally
Via Andrew Leigh's blog I came upon Give Well which attempts to rank charities in terms of their effectivenss. Damn good thing too. I have...
A nice, simple bit of Microsoft bashing
By Aaron Edlin Here. In the best of all worlds, we would all benefit from the so-called network effects that result from most people using...
A seriously cool way to multiply
HT - Peter Martin.