Who Were the Sea Peoples?

This guy actually took my side against one of his own. Maybe these gold bugs are objective.

Inspired by Bob Murphy's witty barb on this very blog, I make my bid for the number one article on LewRockwell.com for the second straight year.

Pail Challenge II -- minor corrections 070125 Oakland and Novato, CA, (c) 2006-7 by W. Bloch A monk sat on the beach contemplating the mind of God. Nearby, he saw a little boy with a pail digging in the sand. After the boy had dug a hole, he ran down to the ocean, filled his pail, ran back, and poured the water into his hole in the sand. “What are you doing?” asked the monk. “I’m going to pour the ocean into the hole,” answered the boy. “That you cannot do,” said the monk with a smile. “Nor can you understand the mind of God,” said the boy. 0. Dedication Respectfully dedicated to A. Hamburgarius, the most beautiful girl in the world. 1. Introduction Remember those old chestnuts like, "You are given a 7-quart and a 9-quart pail; return from the well with exactly one quart"? PC.I posed these challenges: 1.1) For pails holding a >= b, respectively, give the set Z in terms of a and b of all possible returns from the well (the Special Pail Theory). 1.2) Design a parametrized ...

I was perusing an amusing "Evolution is a Lie!"-type website that an old church friend sent me. (I'm not going to link to it because the atheist readers will just chuckle.) Anyway, one of the claims that was new to me concerned the alleged similarity of human and ape DNA. I think most of us have heard that humans are 99.x% similar to chimpanzees in DNA or something like that, right? But apparently the Human Genome Project changed that consensus. The website quoted this from a supposed news article: Scientists Revise Map of Human Genome By Jessica Berman, Washington Scientists have revised the map of the human genome, saying human beings are genetically more complex than previously thought. The discovery has surprised experts who say it is likely to transform medical research. VOA's Jessica Berman reports. In 2000, the Human Genome Project unveiled a road map of the six billion chemical bases, or alphabet molecules, that make up the body's genetic structure ca...

Peter Schiff says bad. I say he's full of it.

On an email discussion group, libertarian bad boy Stephan Kinsella relayed a college moment that was quite instructive. He was in an econ class and they were learning about the Phillips Curve. He asked, "If all of the unemployed people died overnight, would that cause inflation?" He said that the teacher stuttered something about the curve shifting.

Jonathan Chait : "[Jonathan] Schell insisted [in 1990] that we could force Iraq to leave Kuwait with sanctions alone, rather than by using military force. But the years that followed that war made it clear just how impotent that tool was. Saddam Hussein endured more than a decade of sanctions rather than give up a weapons of mass destruction program that turned out to be nonexistent. If sanctions weren't enough to make him surrender his imaginary weapons, I think we can safely say they wouldn't have been enough to make him surrender a prized, oil-rich conquest." So Chait says that sanctions obviously were a failure, because they weren't enough to make Hussein surrender the weapons he didn't have . Not only that, they also failed to make him draw square circles and build perpetual motion machines! (Via the below-mentioned Arthur Silber .)