The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

Making this a double dose of Hal G.P. Colebatch, if there has been a better poem title than: 'Observing a thong-shod pedestrian's ...

"And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced it. It i...

From the New York Times In the last few years, unable to hold a list of just four grocery items in my head, I’d begun to fret a bit over ...

So another World Cup has come and gone. Enough water had passed under the bridge that I no longer resented Argentina for their dismal perfor...

' Vaguely Rude Place Names of the World ' It's good to see Australia get some decent representation in there.

So Brazil gets humiliatingly crushed in the World Cup by Germany, 7-1. While there is much to be said about this, mostly in the way of crue...

Apropos nothing, the great Earl Scruggs, playing 'Foggy Mountain Breakdown' (which he in fact wrote), the best banjo tune perhaps si...

One of the things that Sam Peltzman most famously taught us (or perhaps reminded us) is that one should always pay attention to income effec...

Back in 2003, in the lead-up to the Iraq War, a younger Shylock Holmes was an ardent neoconservative. Democracy was, in my view at the time...

In real life (certainly in this country, though not nearly as much in Australia), I've sometimes been accused of having no filter on wha...

Continued from Part 1 . If you've just joined us, we're giving a good fisking to the Mayo Clinic's worthless list of STD ri...

So I'm back in The 'Hagen. Thoughts from last time are here . A surprisingly large effect of being on holiday is the impact of no ...

Every time I read anything about STD risks, I tend to get mightily annoyed at how difficult it is to get any useful information from the me...

As the Greek rather astutely noted, the last post on picking a mail order bride  was guilty of burying the lead somewhat, in that I didn...

Those of us who enjoy collecting correlations as a hobby sometimes yearn for a higher stakes version of our craft, something like the Correl...

The great Gary Becker has apparently passed away . One of the most influential economists of the 20th century, along with Keynes and Friedma...

The problem of me getting busy at work is that it seems to have coincided with a marked increase in the frequency of outbreaks of brown scar...

Last time's thoughts here and here . -Concert festivals are one of the very few ways to a get a relative price measure of the popula...

Some excellent thoughts from the good doctor : “Do you care about the health of the planet?” is a question not quite in the class of “Hav...

Well, Moldbug was certainly prescient on this one. (Isn't he always?). The technology brown scare  has really started to flex its muscl...