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Michael Oakeshott, RIP

Not "rest in peace," but "rationalism in politics." My new article on Oakeshott is up at the website of The Freeman

Crash Landing: Solving Your Coaching Problems

'""We're in a rut. We're in a bad situation right now," Georgetown coach John Thompson III said. "We have to figure how to get everyone in that locker room out of it."' Try turning off the heat, John -- they'll leave.

Yeah, and I Gave Unto Them a New Commandment

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Though shalt do as Obama has done:

Augustine the Genius

A dozen centuries ahead of his time, he rejects astrology in favour of environment and heredity as explaining human traits. From The City of God : 'Cicero says that the famous physician Hippocrates has left in writing that he had suspected that a certain pair of brothers were twins, from the fact that they both took ill at once, and their disease advanced to its crisis and subsided in the same time in each of them. 3 Posidonius the Stoic, who was much given to astrology, used to explain the fact by supposing that they had been born and conceived under the same constellation. In this question the conjecture of the physician is by far more worthy to be accepted, and approaches much nearer to credibility, since, according as the parents were affected in body at the time of copulation, so might the first elements of the fætuses have been affected, so that all that was necessary for their growth and development up till birth having been supplied from the body of the same mother, they m...

Principal Agent Problems, Oh Boy

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Jon Stewart Exercises His Brain

I am really not trying to be a crotchety old man, but this Obamania is really out of hand. I get it, you hated George Bush, and Obama is the opposite of George Bush. Or is he? (HT2 "KRM" ) The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c Changefest '09 - Obama's Inaugural Speech Barack Obama Interview John McCain Interview Sarah Palin Video Funny Election Video