Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago School economists and fellow travelers.
Those picturesque New England stone walls were not put there for their looks. They weren’t even the first choice of material. Fences were originally wood, using the zigzag design that calls for a lot of wood for the length. Wood became scarce and too valuable for fencing after the forests were cleared, so stone walls became the default.
Buy goats.
My niece paid something like $2500 for her goat “Cash.” Last Friday she won the 2007 Grand Champion Junior Market Goat at the Houston Rodeo.
The goat went at auction for $108,000! That’s a Clintonesque rate of return!
In any case, I hope she will remember her loving and supportive uncle and forget last summer’s unfortunate attempt at barbecued goat.
I watched the much anticipated 300 at a sold out local IMAX theater. While some critics are, to put it mildly, less than enthused about this latest Frank Miller film that portrays the Battle of Thermopylae, the positive reaction of the audience was unqualified. Of course, this may be an example of self-selection bias or it could also be that Miller has succeeded in tapping a touchstone narrative and executed it well enough that 300 attracts or repels on a visceral level.
Megan McArdle has a post where she asks people for poems they like. A good idea. So I am stealing it.
I put two on there, see below.
Please add your own, though the entire Iliad, for example, should be represented by a choice selection, etc.
I just left a house full of embittered Bears fan.
The Colts were favored. We all knew that. We were ready for the outcome.
It is not so much the fact that it happened, as the way it happened.
If they’ve got you on skills, you have to outmatch them on animal spirits, bloody-mindedness — and you have to not make a lot of mistakes.
But no.
And Manning only got grass and dirt on his helmet once … .
Congratulations to my Hoosier pals.
Chicago’s record cold temperatures are the headline on Drudge, which is metaphorically appropriate.