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If this doesn’t make you laugh out loud, what will?
If this doesn’t make you laugh out loud, what will?
Jan 8 2007
In this essay, I start by suggesting that hardly anyone has health insurance. The health coverage most Americans have is what I call “insulation,” not insurance. Rather than insuring them against risk, most families’ health plans insulate them from paying for most health care bills, large and small. It touche...
Jan 8 2007
In this essay, I elaborate on the new paper by North, Wallis, and Weingast that I first posted on last week. In the essay, I write, I would say that there is no chance that the United States will succeed in its objective of establishing an open-access order in Iraq. The best we can hope to do is restore Iraq to a natu...
Jan 6 2007
If this doesn't make you laugh out loud, what will?
READER COMMENTS
jaim klein
Jan 7 2007 at 5:13am
Is it working? I mean causing drama (“I am going to kill myself”) may grant tenure at Harvard? On the other hand, please someone verify that Dr Sherley is really African. He sounds awfully like my uncle Shloyme.
Jo Esperanto
Jan 8 2007 at 3:34am
Gandhi advised against the overuse of the hunger strike, for obvious reasons.
Snark
Jan 8 2007 at 12:35pm
December 6, 2005:
Many scientists who do not support human embryo research are afraid to speak out because of possible reprisals from powerful scientists who can affect grant success, publication acceptances, tenure promotion, and employment. – James Sherley
Credibility Check: Pass
Whether Dr. Sherley is granted tenure or not, he’ll be famous for having discovered an effective weight-loss program.
dearieme
Jan 8 2007 at 5:47pm
Some sad buggers look at economic blogs while on vacation.
Scott Johnson
Jan 9 2007 at 10:45am
Sounds like one of those scary/unreasonable people I run into occasionally. Smart, but it’s like talking to granite if you try to contradict them.
This can actually be very dangerous. My alma-mater U of Ark had a professor murdered by a PhD candidate. See: http://www.geocities.com/josephebecker/locke/lockereport.html
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