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David Foster Wallace: words of life from a man dead too soon
Several of you asked for the article in full to which I referred this morning from David Foster Wallace. Here you are, from the Wall Street Journal of Sept 19 of this year. A member of our church (and… more →
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The Economics of the Car you Drive
ctreada wrote 2 days ago: Managerial accounting was one of my favorite classes in business school. It was the class that cove … more →
Dream #2
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babelt wrote 4 days ago: Sunrise I have been playing a tug of war with myself for the past three years. These are the questio … more →
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thewaterworks wrote 5 days ago: Espionage and subversion. Even if valid, conventional wisdom can be made invalid by undermining the … more →
We must get rid of Julio Lugo
John Gugarty wrote 6 days ago: Seemingly ever since the Red Sox acquired him, Julio Lugo has been a bone of contention for many Bos … more →
I sometimes wonder...
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John Gugarty wrote 1 week ago: …if part of the reason that sabermetrically inclined analysis hasn’t made its way into b … more →
Welcome!
John Gugarty wrote 1 week ago: You’ve got mail! Err, blog, as the case may be. Since I’ve recently found myself becomin … more →
Matt Taibbi rips Fareed Zakaria
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Tim Weaver wrote 1 week ago: I have always felt a strong, inexplicable pull towards liking and agreeing with Fareed Zakaria, with … more →
Male vanity comes of age (3)
riomay1962 wrote 2 weeks ago: Bad practices Like people at My Beauty Hub, King and her colleagues at Nivea have taken pains to co … more →
Conventional Wisdom
cmusico wrote 3 weeks ago: OK, I’m no Einstein … or even this precious London girl who has a ridiculously high IQ, … more →
Deborah's List
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OverratedList wrote 1 month ago: 1. Conventional wisdom 2. Approval 3. Oprah 4. Homeownership (Deborah / Alameda, CA / Age 50) … more →
Economists Making Sense
terence wrote 1 month ago: “The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.” – Joh … more →
Mike Scioscia is making me crazy
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sabrtooth wrote 1 month ago: Sabermetrics has come around on the stolen base a bit. Back in the Moneyball era, the steal was a no … more →
1 year, 2 months, 12 days
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musajen wrote 1 month ago: That long ago, on March 8th, 2008, I lost a friend. He died from complications about a month after g … more →
Can the Mind Shape the Brain?
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mind123 wrote 1 month ago: Conventional wisdom holds that the human mind is nothing more than the human brain. This belief deri … more →
My 100th Post
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purecommonsense wrote 1 month ago: I can’t believe that I have already done 100 posts on Pure Common Sense! Time sure does fly by very … more →
The process of doubting
sherfelad wrote 2 months ago: photo by ktylerconk “I doubt, therefore I am” René Descartes Today, I was part of a p … more →
Conventional wisdom and peak oil
Liz wrote 2 months ago: Freakonomics blog takes a look at what happens when circumstances shift too rapidly for the dominant … more →
The Food Police Were Wrong, Again!
Zachary Cohen wrote 2 months ago: I am a contrarian by nature. I see great heaps of people doing one thing, I usually do the opposit … more →
Confused by Conventional Wisdom
truthdriven wrote 2 months ago: So as a regular guy from Kalamazoo, imagine my confusion trying to understand the collection of conv … more →
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