I have found that YouTube is something that can swallow lots of one’s time. Particularly given the “similar recommendations” column down the right-hand side. Recently, for example, I got sucked into the Sterek phenomena. The interest by fans in imagining that there is some budding (or actual) relationship between the characters Stiles Stilinski and Derek Hale in [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Art, Music, Popular culture, Saturday chit-chat, Sexuality
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Tagged Basketball Math Guy, Dylan O'Brien, films, James, music videos, Placebo, Sterek, Teen Wolf, The Boy Next Door, The Love Within, The Matrix, Tyler Hoechlin, Water, Wavey Davey, We Once Were Tide, YouTube
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April 10, 2013 – 12:32 am
In order to understand this post, you need to be familiar with this cartoon. Familiar? Good, now onto the ‘fun’ part. As a general rule, I try to avoid the situation in which the cartoon’s protagonist finds himself. That is, getting into lengthy online disputes where – it would seem – very few people are [...]
The combination of the Melbourne heatwave, being very busy at work (having to get up a 5.30am in the morning to beat the traffic then doing a full day’s presentation teaching takes it out of me) and an obsessive writing project have meant I have not been around much. Apologies for that. When I have [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in History, Law, Politics, Popular culture, Public Policy, Saturday chit-chat
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Day Lewis, Eastern Front, Lincoln the movie, slavery, spam, Thirteenth Amendment, US democrats, US republicans, WWII
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February 21, 2013 – 3:39 pm
I frequently get comments from female working friends with kids who say, “I don’t know how you combine full-time work, two young kids and blogging! What’s your secret?” It’s a juggle which involves many late nights and a sympathetic, helpful husband. I have often wondered how many balls I can simultaneously juggle, as I’m one [...]
January 10, 2013 – 9:30 am
The further back you can look, the further forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill. With the release of the first film of The Hobbit trilogy, An Unexpected Journey, the blogosphere is rife with Middle Earth allusions. My favourite is Frances Woolley’s wonderful post (with some great comments) The Macroeconomics of Middle Earth, though [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Economics, England, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Marriage, Politics, Popular culture, Public Policy, Religion, Sexuality, Society, Technology, Welfare
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Tagged Andy Warhol, consanguinity, deepak Lal, Distributism, Eric Crampton, Fascism, films, Frances Woolley, Industrialisation, J R R Tolkien, Kingdom of Wessex, luxury good, Matthew Akers, Morton, Niall Ferguson, Pope Gregory, Scott Sumner, Winston Churchill, world war one
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January 9, 2013 – 10:00 am
It’s just occurred to me that most of our readers aren’t Facebook friends with one or another of us, so you have no idea what is going on or what we’re planning to do writing-wise for the rest of the year. In short: Legal Eagle is currently in Oxford where she’ll be teaching and researching [...]
January 2, 2013 – 5:27 am
Wishing a very happy new year to all our commenters and readers. DeusExMacintosh will return – but for now, she presents some eye candy du jour. ‘Ava good one peeps.
December 30, 2012 – 1:00 am
It’s fair to say that this blog, although newsy, is not a news site. It represents the eclectic contributions of a group of people with disparate interests to whatever happens to take their fancy. Fair and accurate, yes (lawyers tend to be paranoid about this sort of thing), but comprehensive and unbiased, no. To that [...]
September 10, 2012 – 4:44 pm
Over the last twelve months or so, the blogosphere saw another round of a long-standing fight over money. Not over getting more money (though that is an element too), but its nature and history. A story about debt The aforementioned tussle has been provoked by the publication of David Graeber’s intriguing, but seriously flawed, book Debt: The [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Economics, History, Society
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Tagged barter, Bob Murphy, Carl Menger, Charles Goodhart, comparative advantage, David Graeber, Debt, Douglass North, foraging, ibn Khaldun, Jeff Hummel, Keith Hart, manorial economies, Michael Hudson, money, optimum currency area, public debt, transaction costs, von Mises
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August 13, 2012 – 10:30 am
A feature of the internet has been the growth of networked zealotry; where intensely held attitudes are expressed in overheated rhetoric and ad hominem abuse, not as solitary aberrations (though that also happens), but in self-reinforcing internet coteries. This has fed off, and possibly intensified, the bitter “culture wars” of the US; the intensification of [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Academia, Britain, History, Media, Politics, Science, Society
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Tagged David Henderson, Ian Castles, Jodie Foster, mel gibson, Scott Sumner
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