Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol
Taxonomy of pencil grips
Hat tip: @ChristinaLauren. The complete thread as well as pictures of additional pencil grips are available here.
Map placing Pearl Harbor at the center of the world
Originally posted on prior probability:
Hat tip: AJgloe
Map of the University of California (circa 1939)
I guess my alma mater, UC Santa Barbara (#GauchoForLife), wasn’t part of the UC system back then. Hat tip: u/Petrarch1603, via Reddit.
Dear Santa …
… This is what I want for Christmas, along with two boxes of Avo cigars (robustos) and two bottles of Woodford Reserve. (One box/bottle for home; the other for the office!) More details here.
What part of the Constitution would you repeal?
On this day (5 December) in 1933, the 21st Amendment was offcially ratified. This was the historic constitutional amendment that repealed the Puritancial and paternalistic 18th Amendment, which had mandated a nationwide prohibition on the manufacture, distribution, and sale of … Continue reading
The primacy of procedural rules
Check out the map pictured below depicting the results of the 2020 presidential election by county or parish. (Hat tip: u/natanel_thicc, via Reddit.) In other words, if the Electoral College were tied to local counties instead of States, President Trump … Continue reading
Lock Them Up!
Bush and Blair are war criminals and deserve to spend the rest of their lives rotting in a jail cell. Yeah, I have not forgotten about the Iraq War, and if I ever meet either of these smug assholes in … Continue reading
Rest in Peace, Walter Williams
More details here, via National Review. Professor Williams was one of my intellectual heroes. Update (12/4): Here is another homage to Walter Williams, via my colleague and friend Alex Tabarrok.
The logic of cancel culture
More details here. Hat tip: Brian Leiter.
Revised Review of Cowen
FYI: I have posted a revised version of my full-length review of Professor Tyler Cowen’s “Love Letter to Big Business.” Below is a summary of my review, which is available here via SSRN: “In 1848, two obscure German philosophers, Karl … Continue reading

