EMMABODA - emmaboda festivalen: day 2, 08/01/08

What do economics and hummus have in common?

They both come in a neoclassical variety.

Thanks to the blog reader who sent this in.

littlesparrowstuff: email save-the-dates

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canadian friend littlesparrowstuff wants you to save the earth and send email save-the-dates. hers are charming! plus she sends a 4.5x5 print-quality version if you really must have them on paper. custom orders and colors are welcome.

plus cute cards:



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More on the GSE Rescue Bill

Larry Lindsey reports:

Congress rejected a proposal that Fannie and Freddie be barred from paying dividends if they are receiving injections of capital from the federal government. This idea would seem to be the first lesson in a course on Government Bailout 101. The government shouldn't be shoveling taxpayer money in the front door while the company is shoveling dividends to shareholders out the back door.

Freddie Mac paid $1.6 billion in dividends last year while Fannie Mae paid $2.5 billion. Both have dividend yields that are many times higher than the norm. Congress chose to protect the shareholders at the expense of the taxpayer.

Two more hours to vote girls!

And while I know you are probably tired of details from my wedding, I'm going to link to our recently added knot real weddings post anyways!

UPDATE: Numero FIVE is the Winner. Congrats to the Number 5 bride. Erika - forever-more, you can tell people you had the preppiest wedding of 2008!!

EMMABODA - emmaboda festivalen: day 1, 07/31/08

The Cost of Being PC

Here is a ranking of academic disciplines by political correctness:

The most PC: Psychology, Sociology, English, History, Elementary education

The least PC: Criminal justice, Economics, Marketing, Accounting, Computer science, Biology, Finance, Management information, Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering

Political correctness is defined here as "the belief that gender gaps in math and science fields are largely due to discrimination; support for affirmative action; and belief that discrimination is a key cause of racial inequities in American society. Generally, members of this cohort see race and gender as fundamental ."

I notice that the non-PC disciplines appear to correlate with the most lucrative college majors. Some might take this fact as even more evidence that life is fundamentally unfair.