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The paradox of “assholism”
This is Professor Geoffrey Nunberg’s crude neologism, not ours. Dr Nunberg, a professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley, delves into “the moral logic of assholism” in his 2012 book Ascent of the a-word: assholism, the first sixty years. (We spent the better part of yesterday afternoon … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Language, Paradoxes
Tagged Assholism, Bill Belichick, Geoffrey Nunberg, Self-Contradiction
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What ESPN doesn’t want you to hear
Addendum: By the way, while we’re on the subject of ESPN’s three-week suspension of Bill Simmons, check out this original analysis of the economics of employee suspensions here. (Tyler Cowen offers two possible economic explanations of employee suspensions.) This part of … Continue reading
Posted in Bayesian Reasoning, Deception, Language
Tagged Audio, Bill Simmons, SoundCloud
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Who is an American?
Anyone who lives in the Americas, including but not limited to citizens of the United States. People in the U.S., however, like this culturally-insensitive law professor, often use the term “American” to refer exclusively to themselves. But this is wrong and blatantly offensive … Continue reading
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