Francis Bacon and Edward Coke were intellectual rivals. Bacon was a father of the scientific method, and a hero to top-down engineering types. Coke was more from the bottom-up evolutionary common law tradition. When Bacon presented a copy of his New Organon to Coke, Coke inscribed this couplet on the title page:
It deserveth no to be read in Schooles
But to be freighted in the ship of Fooles
(F.A. Hayek, The Trend of Economic Thinking, 72.)
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Politico: Obama: Sunny is ‘friskier’ than Bo
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Politico: Michelle Obama posts ‘selfie’ with Bo
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Politico: Events chief fights drab D.C. parties
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Politico: Bill Clinton dishes on vegan diet
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Orange News: Welshman’s delight at ‘Shed of the Year’ prize
There were more than 1,900 entrants. Well done, Alex Holland of Wales.
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From pages 20-21 of Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo’s amusing 1988 book Baseball Confidential:
Steve Lyons, White Sox — Lyons says that when he was a rookie, he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry after he questioned Jerry Neudecker over a third strike. “I said, ‘man, that pitch was high.’ And he said, ‘You don’t say that to me. You ask me if that pitch was high.’ So I said, ‘All right, was that pitch high?’ And he replied, ‘Yeah, it was. But I still called it a strike and that means you’re out.’ I ended up laughing all the way back to the dugout.”
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This short James Bond-inspired spoof starring various CEI staff was shown at our annual dinner last week. Best line: “You just got yourself kilt.” Click here if the embedded video below doesn’t work.
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Inertia Wins! 