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Incentives Matter (Tom Brady Edition)
Roger Goodell, the unpopular Commissioner of the NFL, recently heard Tom Brady’s appeal in the now-infamous “Deflategate” or “Ballghazi” case. As things stand now, the Commissioner has only two options: (i) reduce Tom Brady’s four-game suspension, or (ii) do nothing … Continue reading
Probability Calculator (“Grexit” Edition)
Hat tip: Felix Salmon.
Deadweight Losses (Voicemail Edition)
Hat tip: narwhalforall (via reddit).
“Wonder Bree”
Let’s get real … The stars & bars are no more inclusive than ISIS’s black flag is.Credit for “Wonder Bree”: Rebecca Cohen (via tumblr).
Supreme Court Scorecard
Overall, how great is the Supreme Court in protecting our rights? On balance, does the Court create more rights than it taketh away? For our part, we concur with the excellent David Post (via The Volokh Conspiracy) that “a Supreme … Continue reading
Starbuck’s Transcription Error
Hat tip: SuperCub (via reddit).
Lubet vs. Goffman
We are not big fans of Alice Goffman’s best-selling book On the run, since we think most of the stories in her book are pure fiction at best. (We have even gone as far as to suggest that “Goffman is … Continue reading
Art Project (Swedish Broccoli Tree Edition)
Via kottke, check out the complete series of these sublime pictures of the same tree shot by Patrik Svedberg. Like a modern day Monet, Mr Svedberg has been photographing a single Swedish tree for the last two years and posting the … Continue reading

