Kevin Drum provides a nice summary of Friday's long posting about weighting.
Cosma Shalizi tells us that his wife's boss is on the NAS Panel on firearms. Right now I'm thinking of a line of clothing emblazoned with: "I got smeared by Glenn Reynolds and all I got was this lousy t shirt". Someone who got more than that is Steve Levitt, who has just been awarded the John Bates Clark medal.
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Brad Delong points us to a New York Times profile on "rabidly anti-gun" Steven Levitt. The whole thing is worth reading, but this part is especially interesting to me:
The year after he was hired, his wife gave birth to their first child, Andrew. One day, just after Andrew turned a year old…
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If you give your children over to the Boy Scouts for a day or two, they may do something to them akin to abuse. This happened.
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