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A much-needed site: Music from

A much-needed site: Music from TV Commercials.

Nice profile of young conservative

Nice profile of young conservative journalist Melissa Seckora

High prices of academic journals

High prices of academic journals now the focus of newspaper articles. (The University of Guelph can't keep up!)

Ten best and ten worst

Ten best and ten worst autograph signers.

Would-be-funny-if-it-weren't-so-sad article about the results

Would-be-funny-if-it-weren't-so-sad article about the results of North Carolina's fourth-grade writing test.

As much about the history

As much about the history of money as you probably want to know.

Lovely, lovely attack on the

Lovely, lovely attack on the Global Warming scam. Includes this: "When the global warmers tell us that the stakes are very high, they are quite right. Global warming has become an immense international gravy train worth billions of dollars. It is now one of the largest recipients of government research money in the world. It finances jobs, grants, conferences, international travel and journals. It not only keeps a huge army of people in comfortable employment but also fills them with self-righteousness and moral superiority, and satisfies those deep instincts in the Green movement for meddling, hectoring, controlling and censuring. It enables them to say, ‘The end is nigh unless you give us more funding, repent, and do what we say.’ Behind these exhortations is the vision of Rousseau, of a retreat from the evil industrialised world of motor cars and electricity back to the simpler, nobler world of nature (except for the Green priesthood who will still be allowed to fly in jet planes to attend conferences)."

Salaries that first-round NBA draft

Salaries that first-round NBA draft choices will command.

A Slate writer argues that

A Slate writer argues that Amtrak should die. It includes this (to me, at least) startling assertion: every day, American airlines carry 1.8 million passengers and almost 1 million people ride intercity buses, but Amtrak carries only about 64,000 people.

Steven Landsburg goes bananas.

Steven Landsburg goes bananas.