Assorted links

1. What were the top TV words this last year?

2. What a fig is.

3. How the WSJ and NYT really work, in the eyes of the Chinese (video).

4. Camille Paglia on Lady Gaga (negative).

5. The culture that is Australia, part I, and here parts II and III.

6. Against the R&D tax credit.

7. Video of Manne, Sen, Ostrom, and Buchanan at George Mason; at 90 years old Buchanan still stole the show.