http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness/ quotations web site. Other topics include wine, military news, economics, history, libertarianism, and other random things which happen to strike my fancy. Backup site is at http://quotulatiousness.blogspot.com/ (if there are no posts showing, hit the backup blog for explanation). Comments have been turned off, as the spam was getting too much to handle. Comments can be emailed to me for posting.]]> en-us 2008-05-02T10:17:25-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/004518.html Regular readers will know that I've been a long-term skeptic about the economic figures reported by the Chinese government (for example, here and here back in 2004). As a result, this post at the Economist is not very surprising: As... Economics Nicholas 2008-05-02T10:17:25-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/004517.html Radley Balko posts a link to the most popular 50 pages on Conservapedia under the heading Compensate Much:... Media Nicholas 2008-05-02T08:54:28-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/004516.html As you may occasionally find, we're having some CSS issues on the site at the moment (for instance, when I rebuilt the site a minute ago, I lost the sidebar at the left). They're not consistent, which makes it much... Administrivia Nicholas 2008-05-02T08:54:04-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/004515.html In a discussion on the technical writing mailing list earlier this week, someone proposed trying to organize technical writers in some form of union or guild. Kevin McLauchlan tackled the idea of a guild head-on: Doctors and lawyers don't often... Economics Nicholas 2008-05-02T08:36:08-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/004514.html I ran the same test on the blog, once at the old location and once here. Apparently I've developed a written form of Tourette's Syndrome: Old SiteNew Site Created by OnePlusYouCreated by OnePlusYou... Administrivia Nicholas 2008-05-01T18:28:41-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/004513.html My usual piece of advice is to blog frequently, but Megan McArdle provides an even better word of advice: Note to all new bloggers: this sort of thing is generally, at least in the blogging circles in which I travel,... Media Nicholas 2008-05-01T09:16:05-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/004512.html "Canada" [. . .] is the ancient Ojibwa word for "kick me" Kathy Shaidle, "I missed 'Pingu' for this?", Five Feet of Fury, 2008-04-30... Quotations Nicholas 2008-05-01T09:04:36-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/004511.html You know those books you read but would prefer that nobody knew that you read . . . no, not those ones. The worst trash you read. Everyone seems to have some reading vice like that. David Hines knows exactly... Media Nicholas 2008-05-01T08:51:38-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/004510.html Dr. Ayala, a former Dominican priest, said he told his audiences not just that evolution is a well-corroborated scientific theory, but also that belief in evolution does not rule out belief in God. In fact, he said, evolution "is... Quotations Nicholas 2008-04-30T09:00:19-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/004509.html David Weigel has a look at "wildest Libertarian Party nomination fight in decades". After the big names, he presents the usual list of names nobody should expect to see on the final ballot: 9. The others. There is absolutely zero... Politics Nicholas 2008-04-30T08:59:30-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/004508.html Jacob Sullum asks some pointed questions about the state's interest in removing several hundred children from their mothers: I'm not quite as old-fashioned as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), which hews to the early-marriage customs... Law Nicholas 2008-04-30T08:42:50-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/004507.html Mrs Obama is most famous for declaring, a propos her husband's candidacy, that "for the first time in my adult lifetime I'm really proud of my country". Just a throwaway line reflecting no more than the narcissism and self-absorption... Quotations Nicholas 2008-04-29T08:53:41-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/004506.html So it is with the idea of creating new states where existing ones are not meeting expectations. Katherine Mangu-Ward has more: If Peter Thiel funds something, it's bound to be cutting-edge awesome. He is a supporter of the Methuselah Mouse... Liberty Nicholas 2008-04-29T08:30:47-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/004505.html The biofuels debacle is global warm-mongering in a nutshell: The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real... Quotations Nicholas 2008-04-28T09:14:52-05:00 http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/004504.html Ronald Bailey points to some new suggestions for easing the load on doctors and nurses . . . icons to replace medical charts: Update: Jon sent along this related link: Giant microbe stuffed toys, and this link: 4 Veneral dolls.... Humour Nicholas 2008-04-28T08:58:13-05:00