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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

On Halloween costumes

Posted on 6:11 AM by Unknown
From a Facebook friend.
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

A reinterpretation of the Mayan calendar

Posted on 10:46 AM by Unknown
Hat tip: a Facebook friend.
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Friday, October 26, 2012

Ayn Rand on Michigan Television

Posted on 6:24 AM by Unknown
This old interview with Ayn Rand from a now-defunct UM television network works on many levels.

Via the Bentley Historical Library.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Job market run-up home run

Posted on 5:30 PM by Unknown
Nate Seegert hits a pre-job-market home run as his job market paper is cited on both Marginal Revolution and Ezra Klein's blog at the WaPo.

Congrats to Nate, whose job market paper I quite like as well.

We have other great candidates too .... seven of them with letters from yours truly.

Hat tip: Jessica Goldberg
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Arizona 52, Washington 17

Posted on 3:43 PM by Unknown
This may be the worst game Washington has played all year. Unlike LSU and Oregon, Arizona is good but not great. The Huskies should have been close, if not the winners. And yet they got blown out, in large part due to their own mistakes.

This one actually has caused some grumbling in Seattle, as Jerry Brewer describes in his column.
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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Michigan 12, Michigan State 10

Posted on 8:56 AM by Unknown
At last! A victory over MSU! And in a hard-fought defensive struggle that was exciting even on the radio over the internet. Well done.

Coverage from annarbor.com here.
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The satanic video

Posted on 6:21 AM by Unknown
The NYT offers this thoughtful piece on the video that, for a few days, was the cause of the raid on the US embassy compound in Libya and on the broader issues it raises.

It seems to me that we are repeating the same error we made during the Cold War. Liberalism, in the broad sense, is a vastly superior product to communism. That case could have been, and should have been, made without apology. Liberalism is also a far better product than theocracy, whether Christian or Muslim or otherwise. That case, too, can and should be made without apology and without any offense to sincere and honest faith.
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