As many who frequent SC are aware, I have my own formulation and use of the Golden Rule.  Basically, it works as follows:

Overview.

This diary documents the conventions which comprise the GoRight Style Guide for the English language.  This style guide is being developed using a differential approach to documenting specific style elements.  In other words, this guide only seeks to document those elements which make the GoRight style unique.

George Carlin has died at age 71.

Fuck.

And I use that term very deliberately given that Carlin's "Seven words you can't say on TV" ultimately became the focus of a Supreme Court case about obscenity and censorship.

Some pictures of Elliot at 2-3 months old. I blame him for my light posting recently =)

Promoted by Brendan (and timestamp changed) -- everyone get in on the fun!

There has been some interest in starting a stock market challenge over at Marketwatch . Of course, everyone who is interested in playing is welcome to join.

We do need to set some rules:

Starting cash amount [$100,000]:
Public portfolios [y]:
Portfolio resets [n]:

Private protection has a strong and under appreciated place in our society says Sheldon Richman

This is Richman reflecting on a speech by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel:

In making the case for private nonstate protection, he pointed that we already are protected to some extent from government invasion by private organizations. How so?

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.

Without a doubt, one of the most fascinating and disheartening chapters in The Logic of Life is chapter 6 on "Rational Racism".

A test was done at the University of VA. Students signed up and were paid to be part of the experiment, which was done via a faceless web based interface. They were divided in two groups. Employers and Employees. The employees were randomly assigned colors: Green or Purple. The experiment was done in 3 phases.

A recent discussion about limited resources and economic growth and their relationship as it affects our sustainability got me thinking about a book I just finished last week: The Logic of Life by Tim Harford .

(promoted by Ender) OK, take a breath Swords Crossed. Back in August of last year, we put up a set of ten questions that we'd revisit after the first major primaries ended. With Florida pending for the Republicans and the Democrats poised for a Super Tuesday Blitz, the results look to be fairly surprising. So how'd we do? Let's see how far we've come...

Here are the questions, with some of the selected answers that were dead on, way off, and even the absurd :-) I've only selected a few; you guys can click through to the original if you want...

Being dead certain about issues in a complex world is not easy. Last week, Tyler Cowen praised uncertainty in a posting that got quite a bit of play in the blogesphere and on his site. I guess it's more messy to talk about what you are uncertain about because the list is much longer and more open to interpretation than talking about certainties.

Hey, folks:

It's the holiday time again, and I figured I'd share my favorite recipe with you all for anyone who'e into baking. If others are willing to put in their favorite recipes for the holidays, no matter what it may be, you're more than welcome. Here goes:

Chocolate Pound Cake with Rich Chocolate Glaze:

Cake:

2 cups all-purpose white flour
2 cups of sugar
2 sticks of unsalted butter (I always melt the butter first)
3 large eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/4 tsp. salt
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder

nm...

First the New York Times and now....

AP News Wire says Murdoch will make the WSJ will be removing its subscription wall.

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday he intends to make access to The Wall Street Journal's Web site free, trading subscription fees for anticipated ad revenue.

"We are studying it and we expect to make that free, and instead of having one million (subscribers), having at least 10 million-15 million in every corner of the earth," Murdoch said.

The 2007 Weblog awards finalists have been announced , and of course all the usual large blogs are represented, since it's basically a popularity contest. But it got me thinking, we have such insightful posters and discerning commenters here, we should have our own awards =)

Details below the fold.

Today, the ever-changing and innovative English band, Radiohead , announced they are taking control of all the aspects that the four giant music industry corporations once had a stranglehold of: distribution and pricing. Did they have to change their name, create a new symbol, and tattoo themselves with the word 'slave' in order to wait-out their record contract and get control of their career a la Prince/AFKAP ?

The research into causes of homosexuality strongly suggests there is a genetic component involved in orientation. Given that it means that we can and will be able to exert a measure of control on incidence of homosexuality in what is most likely the very near future.

But what does that mean on a human level? What does it mean to determine a set of alleles that contribute to homosexuality and then be able to detect their presence within a zygote?

Take a second to really think about what you would do in each situation:

Let's just get all of our grievances with the Bush Administration out there, once and for all. The object is not analysis here. Let's simply list as many Bush disasters as we can think of-- no analysis, no sourcing, just briefly name the person, policy, or incident that has been bad for the country.

Four rules for comments in this diary:

1. You may not use the body of the comment form. Your comments should use the title only-- which will limit you to maybe 10 words or so. (That should keep the comments analysis free)

This weekend I was at six flags and the topic of HBCUs came up while we were in line. One of the reasons why one of the patrons in our group for not allowing her child to go to an HBCU was that they "won't prepare [him/her] for the Real World." In fact, this premise has been laid as the reason for a myriad of college programs--why we have speech codes, Affirmative Action, etc. I want to challenge that premise today and spark a discussion on a key question. Does college prepare you for the challenges of the real world? I figure I'd take some of the tidbits from each side of the debate.