It suddenly struck me today, while outlining for a certain class, that my prof probably picked up on the fact that I died of boredom at least 6 times during the last four classes. My bad.
I mean, I paid attention. I took notes. But I have a very hard [...]
“That’s like getting economic advice or financial advice from Keith Richards. Why?? Why would you do that??” Me, to a friend this afternoon.
[...] And there are markets in everything, but this book reminds me more of one of the seven deadly sins discussed by Tyler Cowen in “The Undercover Economist,” than anything else.
Also, why do they all look like Barbie dolls, even the plastic surgeon? I think parents should be [...]
I had my hair cut on Saturday. I had a crappy year and a half, and thus my hair…it was just getting kind of blah and long and blah. So I had about a foot chopped off. And I love it. What I don’t love is some of the [...]
The always amazing, super talented Gilmore over at Pretty on the Outside has developed a few alternative theories about just what was reflected in Dick Cheney’s sunglasses. I just had to link to this. I mean…look at the last alternative he’s presented.
Now that’s [...]
The Gordon Tullock Blog of Insults & Injury
Or “Tullock Insults!” Or “Tullock: Dictator.” Or something clever and econ-related that I can’t come up with at the moment.
C’mon. Yeah, he’s got a webpage, but you *know* the Gordon Tullock Public Choice Blog would be awesome. For the comments section, if [...]
Oh, property office hours…
“So, other than language, is there really a difference between a contingent remainder and a vested remainder subject to divestment?”
“Yes.”
*silence*
“Oh. There’s taxation, and a lot of things not really relevant to this course. But you need to know that the vested remainder subject to divestment isn’t [...]
“All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.” –George J. Stigler
(Left to right: George Stigler, Milton Friedman, John Kenneth Galbraith.
Creation of Mark Skousen. Technical assistance by James Durham
(Source) The technical assistance bit is because Galbraith was [...]
No, not like that, sickos. She’s cheap, but she’s not easy.
Hat tip to Whackette.
He’s, like, 5 million trillion times cooler than me. I am outraged and demand that David DO SOMETHING about it.
DEVELOPING….
Update: WHAT NOW, Englin? I have a graphic! With animation! That I paid a guy who said that if I paid on time, he’d be my best friend for, and [...]
DEVELOPING……
Update: What were Connolly’s plans when he entered the grocery store that fateful day? Where was his grocery list? When did he make that awful, unAmerican purchase?
DEVELOPING….
Update: Since I have nothing better to do with my life, I am going to the grocery store RIGHT NOW to find Gerry [...]
Yes, the rumors are true, and your deepest, most heartfelt secret hope of hopes has become reality. I, Ben’s Ego, am running for United States Senate in the State of Virginia. WOOOHO!
I know you all are deeply outraged that I have never run for anything before. I know. Shh. [...]
“Hillary is like Eminem in that respect.”
“I’m sorry, did you just…wow. Congratulations. You’re talented. That was the first and probably the last successful comparison of a Clinton and Eminem.”
About two weeks ago, my business org class had a team paper due on a small business of our choice. Ungraded, kinda lame. I worked with this guy I’m doing oral argument against. While we were working on the paper, he made some comment about how if this attorney [...]
600 (typo I’m keeping; meant to type “60″) years young, and many more to you!
Can you tell I shared a cab with an Irishman last night? ‘Cause I totally did. Dude was from Dublin, and he was amazing. We left InterPhex at the same time and were headed to [...]
I really liked Bryan Caplan’s “The Myth of the Rational Voter,” and no, that’s not just because I went to GMU and he teaches there. I’m biased, but not that biased. (I am deeply saddened I never got to take one of his classes though.)
Anywho, perhaps I’ve been playing [...]
I don’t do endorsements, but if I did, I would take this opportunity to remind you that Creigh Deeds was once gutsy enough to be interviewed by the Ditzocrats. I would also remind you that he has lots of baby animals, and Brian Moran probably has eaten ducks at [...]
“Why are the cherries on fire? If I wanted flaming fruit, I’d be in an entirely different part of town. No, no, it’s not the fruit, and it’s not the flames, we’re doing seafood this month.”
[...] As deeply saddened as I am over Eliot’s resignation, I did declare him so totally dead to me (I feel like Christian Siriano. Tranny mess! Fierce! HOT FIERCE TRANNY MESS!).
That being the case, go Team Blind Guy! That’s right. David Paterson, who is both blind and black, [...]
NO! Not Eliot Spitzer ! NO! It sounds like a bad game of Clue, man… it was Eliot, at the Mayflower (room 871), with the hooker named Kristen, for $3500/hour, for 6 years…NO.
This is almost as traumatic as Ron Paul dropping out of the race.
Look at him. He’s [...]
Barack Obama is always looking for ways to help. What can Barack* do for you?
My fav thus far: “OBAMA WILL MAKE YOU A GOURMET EGGPLANT PARMESAM MEAL, WITH SALAD, ROLLS AND FRESH STRAWBERRIES AND CREAM FOR DESERT”
Just keep clicking through. Brilliance.
* In Con. Law, during my utterly brilliant [...]
Unofficial Ditzocrat mascot, Keith Richards is the new face of Louis Vuitton. Many bloggers are commenting that perhaps LVMH is planning on making Mr. Richards into a piece of luggage himself.
You know, because he’s already tanned, and you know he’s durable.
Said a spokewoman for LVMH, “Keith Richards is [...]
When leaving the library’s 7th floor this afternoon, I decided to take the back stairs instead of the elevator. Elevators are for the lazy, and I was thinking about the role of the judiciary versus the legislature, in the light of “The Myth of the Rational Voter,” and I [...]
Ralph Nader, perennial candidate, has kindly stopped by to answer a few questions. For the slow, it’s a mock interview. Meaning he stopped by, except not really. Just like how you’re cute when you’re stupid, except not really. Movin’ right along.
DD: Ralph, why run now? You’re quite late into [...]
Hey everyone,
I know I said I’d get it posted today/yesterday, but things are slightly crazed over here. I’ll try to have it up before Monday. I need to stop setting deadlines for this blog, or take on an unpaid intern.
Exciting news on the Ralph Nader front, folks. Super exciting news. Really tremendous news. Ralph, it seems, has become irritated at my, um, blunt attempt to demotivate him into never running for President again, and will be joining us Tuesday for a mock interview*.
We’ll be trying to keep him [...]
What are you on, man? When they said anyone in America could grow up to be President, they weren’t talking about you, Ralph! You’ve tried and failed and tried and failed! And don’t give me this “I’m making a statement” crap. We have a new environmentalist-who-is-trying-to-be-relevant-through-environmentalism now. His [...]
Dear Property Professor,
I don’t read ahead for your class. Here’s the thing- I think you think I’m reading ahead, and I’m totally not.
Remember today, when we talked about adverse possession in class*? We talked about if it was a good doctrine or not. I came up with a bunch [...]
My last semester of undergrad either rocked or blew. My marketing classes were amazing! (I loved marketing; I used to work in advertising and sales, and also did a lot of actual field research for a few people.) My econ class…not so much. Mainly because of the professor, so [...]
In law school, they split us up into sections. You have all your classes with your section. The entire law school, as far as you’re concerned, is your section.
Well, until your second semester, that is. We’re allowed to have one elective class with people from another section our second [...]
That’s right, folks, in Property today, we discussed if organs, most particularly organs from live donors, ought to be considered property and if we ought to have a market in them. We already have black markets in organ donation, people are compensated for their “time” for donating blood, surrogate [...]
I have a great post about a diversion that we got off on in class today, but I wanted to give a little teaser while I’m working out the details of my thoughts.
This class discussion got me so confused that I swung by my prof’s office hours this afternoon. [...]
I thought I’d stay in and have you all re-name my blog*.
No, seriously. The title is all kinds of wrong. First of all, where ever the fuck Eryn is, it ain’ there, so the “s” part of “Democrats” is wrong. Secondly, if it’s just me, I’m not really that [...]
When rushing to get out of your apartment in the morning, grab the first available hoodie, which will be a GMU hoodie. Don’t make the connection between your hoodie, your property professor and the fact that your 1/4 of the class is the 1/4 of the class due to [...]
Before I begin, I’d like to say that Property is officially my favorite class. It saddens me that we don’t have this class everyday; where else do I get to answer a question on how best to distribute excess containers of heating oil by basically reciting the Coase Theorum? [...]
I live in Philly and am therefore allowed to trash Jersey every now and then. And by “every now and then” I mean, “in this post right here.”
From Justice Rehnquist and the Chief Justice’s dissent in City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey:
“First, in New Jersey . . . Landfills [...]
