For me, this guy.....

Second Place....I can only remember seeing Jay Burson playing a couple of times, but there's no way someone who's 150lbs should be able to play D1 basketball.

H/T Bryan Caplan. 

When I now broached the question of what the source of his so strongly felt hatred for the Jews was, and why he wanted to destroy this so undeniably intelligent race - a race to which the Germans and all other Aryans, if not the entire world, owed an incalculable debt in virtually all fields of art and knowledge, research and economics - Hitler suddenly calmed down and gave this unexpectedly sober and almost dispassionate explanation:

Ian Ayers suggests that you "make it interesting " as they say in certain circles.

Ian wanted to lose 20 pounds and keep the weight off so he entered into a promise contract with a colleague at Yale.  Ian put up $500 each week and pledged to lose a pound a week until he reached his goal.  If he failed to reach the goal for the week, then his colleague could send the money out to a charity of his choice.

Promoted by John. Excellent points. Good discussion

The Adam Smith Institute (naturally, based in Edinburgh) recently came out with a piece highlighting the approach undertaken by Sweden's government in regards to school choice .

First, does any of this sound familiar?

Predictably, the video wasn't cheered in all quarters.  And many would argue that's it's income inequality that should really be addressed by government.

In 1979, the British universal healthcare system was held up as the crown jewel by the nationalized medicine crowd. Now, the system is plagued by rationing and the tough decisions that government has to make for its citizens when we attempt to satisfy infinite desires with finite resources. 

A few examples...

Reason Magazine recently interviewed Kurt Loder and I thought he had some interesting things to say re: the survellance culture, media fragmentation, the nanny state, celbrity culture and more ...Some snippets....

On the Movie "Sicko"....

In my diary entry 70,000 Britons expected to escape the NHS this year we explored the quality of care concerns that are leading many Britons to look at healthcare overseas.  A few posters correctly pointed out that it's not a phenomenon limited to the NHS.  Many people look to "escape" our healthcare system because of rising costs.

Can you spot the problem with his defense ?  (NYT blog linked)

A new Treasury Study sheds some light in income mobility in America.  (WSJ article here.)

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Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS - with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year.

And by the end of the decade 200,000 "health tourists" will fly as far as Malaysa and South Africa for major surgery to avoid long waiting lists and the rising threat of superbugs, according to a new report.

Many of you probably recently saw that a Maine school decided to make available contraceptives to their students.

Maine School to Offer Contraceptives
By JERRY HARKAVY –
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — School officials on Thursday defended a decision to allow children as young as 11 to obtain birth-control pills at a middle-school health center, saying the new policy is aimed at a tiny number of sexually active students.

The Club for Growth recently came out with a list of the 10 Dumbest Votes in the US House. This is a bi-partisan listing so it should be good fun for all.

http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2007/10/the_10_dumbest_votes_in_the_us.php

Whether it's Republicans running amok on the spending front or Dems seemingly caving on the war/warrantless wiretapping it seems that few in Washington have a political backbone.

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One thing that Alan Greenspan rails about in his book is that his office has been used (maybe mis-used) as a political tool. Like it or not, that's the case. We've elevated his words to the point that they move markets. As such, instead of good monetary policy, it seems like the primary job of the Federal Reserve has been to not rock the economic and market boat rather than to control inflation via the money supply.

but it's not often you see a Duck kick a Cougar's ass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_aaYih92ss

FWIW, the Duck was suspended.

They both withold potentially life saving drugs from those whom they are supposed to protect....

In 2001, two parents were convicted of manslaughter in Colorado for allowing their daughter to die from untreated diabetes-related infection. Had she been taken to a doctor, she would likely have lived. Several of her surviving siblings were also found to be sick with strep throat, with which they had apparently been infected for months.