1. Some economic benefits of gay marriage, via Richard Florida
2. Why it is hard to catch diseases through air travel, plus a defense of the TB guy who got on the plane
3. European writings on economics, a new web site
4. Why are there so many dumb blonde jokes? Bob Frank says maybe blondes are smarter but less educated
Your blond link is to the wrong place, I suspect.
Person, that’s one of my favorite jokes. Originally heard it as a socialite with no mention of hair color. Am I the only one who prefers brunettes?
Franks doesn’t consider that not everyone who appears blonde is genetically blonde.
Regarding the site of supposedly European economics writings, several of those
there are not strictly European. Richard Baldwin is an American in Europe, Alberto
Alesina is a European in America, and Barry Eichengreen is an American in America.
Makes sense. Blonde women are hotter than average, so men like them more. Women like high status men, high status me usually have high IQ’s, so eventually beauty and intelligence converge. It’s simple Darwin.
What I know about blondes, teaching at a prep school full of alarmingly rich people:
I can tell where a woman falls on the full-time-job/stay-at-home-mom spectrum by how thin and how blonde she is. (And I think most of the blondes are really and truly blonde, given how many of their sons are.) Thin and blonde? Stays at home. Thin and not blonde? Works part time or is a grad student. Not thin and not blonde (very rare among our mothers)? Has a career.
It is positively eerie how accurate this is.
Intersting look at gay marriage, but there is nothing about the costs of divorce. What would be the impact after the divorces are figured in?
I used to work at the New York City Comptrollers office back when we worried about taxi-cab medallions,
bridge construction and other banal concerns. Gay marriage does appear to contribute to the City’s
line according to the report. I would advocate that polygamous marriage be included as it is likely
to have a higher impact per unit of marriage ceremonies conducted at the marriage bureau on #1 Centre
Street (nyc Muni building where marriages are “performed”).
I don’t know why you and PZ keep linking to Effect-Measure. His squawks during the Bird-Flu epidemic were unbearable enough, but this pronunciation on the TB scandal is just indulgent and delusional.
Does anyone comfortable with science feel smarter after reading revere?
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