abwhitford

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:45:13 GMT

With Kenny Wollesen!

jly

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:30:28 GMT

Movie fans might check out Stanley Fish’s top 10 American movies of all time and his discussion thereof in the New York Times. Here’s the quick read (only the first 2 are in order, the others are tied for 3rd according to Fish): 1. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 2. Sunset Blvd. (1950) 3. Double Indemnity [...]

1. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

2. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

3. Double Indemnity (1944)

3. Shane (1953)

3. Red River (1948)

3. Raging Bull (1980)

3. Vertigo (1958)

3. Groundhog Day (1993)

3. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

It’s pretty interesting that Fish finds that only two post 1950s movies warrant inclusion and that one of them is Groundhog Day (although I did like the film). Feel free to disagree with him, the commenters in the Times certainly do.

In other Fish news his new book is “Save the World on Your Own Time” (Oxford University Press 2008). In it he basically says that academics and academic institutions should stick to what they were meant to do - conduct research and teach. We will give Fish the benefit of the doubt and assume that he put this top 10 list together on his own time. Here’s the book’s synopsis:

What should be the role of our institutions of higher education? To promote good moral character? To bring an end to racism, sexism, economic oppression, and other social ills? To foster diversity and democracy and produce responsible citizens?
In Save the World On Your Own Time , Stanley Fish argues that, however laudable these goals might be, there is but one proper role for the academe in society: to advance bodies of knowledge and to equip students for doing the same. When teachers offer themselves as moralists, political activists, or agents of social change rather than as credentialed experts in a particular subject and the methods used to analyze it, they abdicate their true purpose. And yet professors now routinely bring their political views into the classroom and seek to influence the political views of their students. Those who do this will often invoke academic freedom, but Fish argues that academic freedom, correctly understood, is the freedom to do the academic job, not the freedom to do any job that comes into the professor’s mind. He insists that a professor’s only obligation is “to present the material in the syllabus and introduce students to state-of-the-art methods of analysis. Not to practice politics, but to study it; not to proselytize for or against religious doctrines, but to describe them; not to affirm or condemn Intelligent Design, but to explain what it is and analyze its appeal.”
Given that hot-button issues such as Holocaust denial, free speech, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are regularly debated in classrooms across the nation, Save the World On Your Own Time is certain to spark fresh debate-and to incense both liberals and conservatives-about the true purpose of higher education in America.

Everybody May Get Stoned

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:22:07 GMT

A marijuana decriminalization law goes into effect today in the state of Massachusetts. The law, approved by voters in a November referendum, makes possession of one ounce or less of marijuana legal, though subject to a $100 fine. Minors caught with one ounce or less of marijuana must pay the fine and attend a drug abuse counseling course, [...]

Minors caught with one ounce or less of marijuana must pay the fine and attend a drug abuse counseling course, or have the fine increased to $1,000.

In Canada, marijuana is classified as a “controlled substance” under the federal Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. The Act makes possession of marijuana a criminal law offence. However, since 2000, a series of court decisions in Ontario have invalidated (and then validated) the prohbition of marijuana based on the insufficiency of the exemptions provided for legitimate medical users of the drug. Despite these rulings, prosecutors can still pursue charges against marijuana users. Furthermore, the Act will likely continue to be modified in an effort to conform to constitutional requirements found by the courts. As the Act changes, it’s uncertain if the courts will continue the trend towards decriminalization.

Lastly, while the majority of Canadians support the legalization of marijuana, the newly elected minority government of Canada campaigned on a “National Anti-Drug Strategy,” which considers marijuana possession illegal and includes a much more restrictive law with higher minimum penalties.

abwhitford

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:39:09 GMT

Porn in the USA: Porn Star Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion

kelly.erb@b5media.com (Kelly Phillips Erb) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:04:11 GMT

Gosh, I can think of about a hundred smart comments for this one… A porn star goes to prison? But my mother could be reading. So just the facts. Janine Lindemulder (a/k/a Janine James), a porn star who goes by the clever stage name “Janine”, learned her fate last week stemming from a [...]

Gosh, I can think of about a hundred smart comments for this one… A porn star goes to prison? But my mother could be reading. So just the facts.

Janine Lindemulder (a/k/a Janine James), a porn star who goes by the clever stage name “Janine”, learned her fate last week stemming from a guilty plea to tax evasion. Janine will spend six months in prison (plus one year of supervised release) after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of willfully failing to pay tax.

Janine’s adult film career started out predictably: she was a stripper. She appeared in Penthouse and was named as a Pet of the Month in 1987, eventually being named a runner up as Pet of the Year in 1990. Yet, despite those sterling credentials, she could not make it into mainstream film and television.

In 1992, Janine made her porn debut and eventually secured a contract with Vivid, the most famous of the adult film production companies. She “retired” from the adult film industry in 1999 to become - and I’m not making this up - a kindergarten teacher. She stay “retired” from the industry until 2004 when she returned to the adult film business. That year, Janine signed a $350,000 contract to perform in more films and did not pay any of the outstanding taxes owed for prior years, despite being aware of the bill. At the time, she owed more than $200,000 in income tax. Part of her sentence includes restitution in the amount of tax due plus penalties and interest, totaling almost $300,000.

Janine claims that her ex-husband, Jesse James (of West Coast Choppers fame), turned her into the IRS following a bitter divorce. James, who left Janine to marry Sandra Bullock, denies the charge and claims that he agreed to a larger divorce settlement so that Janine could pay off her outstanding tax debts. Instead, she used the money to put a down payment on a new home.

The feds in this case recommended prison time due to Janine’s actions during the time that she had the outstanding tax obligations, including her dramatic spending. Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Cardani wrote in his pre-sentencing memo, comparing Janine to Wesley Snipes, that, “[w]hile Snipes failed to report far more income than defendant James, her tax defiant conduct is similarly offensive. She has demonstrated an attitude of greed and privilege, and has taken advantage of her status as a high profile figure, while at the same time wantonly ignoring her obligation to pay taxes. A meaningful sentence is necessary to get the message to her and others that no one is beyond the law and they must pay their taxes just like everyone else.”

PS - A word of caution: be careful if you Google this one. You’ve been warned!

(Hat Tip: Phil G from Slacker Manager - thanks, Phil!)

abwhitford

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:53:45 GMT

We Interrupt This Tax Blog…

kelly.erb@b5media.com (Kelly Phillips Erb) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:14:38 GMT

I know, I know. It’s a tax blog. And this is more of a corporate news story. But I wanted to share a story that I thought was important this holiday season. It reminded me that people are good - and that companies don’t have to sacrifice their employees in order to make a dollar. Maybe if we had more companies like Lance - and fewer like AIG - this country would be in a very different place today.

Embedded video from CNN Video

Happy Holidays to all! And go buy some Lance crackers (I’m a fan of the Captains Wafers with Cream Cheese myself).

Forget the Fat Tax: Let’s Tax Drug Works

kelly.erb@b5media.com (Kelly Phillips Erb) — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:20:49 GMT

Governon Paterson raised quite a stir after he suggested a “fat tax” to raise revenue combat obesity. But that may not be the most controversial local tax measure to make news this December. Rep. Darryl Rouson, a Democrat from St. Petersburg, Florida, has proposed House Bill 99 to add a “surtax of 5 [...]

Governon Paterson raised quite a stir after he suggested a “fat tax” to ~~raise revenue~~ combat obesity. But that may not be the most controversial local tax measure to make news this December. Rep. Darryl Rouson, a Democrat from St. Petersburg, Florida, has proposed House Bill 99 to add a “surtax of 5 percent” on items described as “drug paraphernalia” under Florida statute.

Florida statute defines drug paraphernalia as “all equipment, products, and materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, transporting, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance in violation of this chapter or s. 877.111.” The list of what that includes is amazing (see it here) and includes such items as charging bottles, whip its and chillums. Yeah, no idea what any of that means. But they’re on the list.

Rouson’s idea is to require store owners who sell these accessories, which are commonly used in conjunction illegal drugs, to pay more taxes. The money raised will benefit drug addiction programs. The statute as currently written would impose the surtax on those items regardless of whether they are sold for legal purposes. However, Rouson, a former cocaine addict, has indicated that he will amend the bill to exclude drug-free use of common items.

I have to say, I have no idea how this would work in practice. If you buy a bong, I could see where it would be a fairly easy argument. But balloons, tubes, 2-liter-type soda bottles and duct tape? How do you prove that you’re buying those for non-drug purposes? And whose burden would it be to prove the non-drug use: the buyer or the store owner?

It seems like a bad move all the way round. It will indeed be interesting to see how it’s received by other Florida representatives. If it were up to you, would you vote yes or no?

Uncle Sam Tops Forbes’ List of Fictional Rich

kelly.erb@b5media.com (Kelly Phillips Erb) — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:32:21 GMT

I love the lists in Forbes magazine. You can find a list on almost everything - the best places to live, jobs that are in the most demand, and the most powerful folks in Hollywood. One of the oddest addition to the list is the Forbes Fictional 15, an annual listing of fiction’s [...]

I love the lists in Forbes magazine. You can find a list on almost everything - the best places to live, jobs that are in the most demand, and the most powerful folks in Hollywood. One of the oddest addition to the list is the Forbes Fictional 15, an annual listing of fiction’s richest.

Topping the list - just ahead of Scrooge McDuck - is Uncle Sam. Worth a reputed $29.1 billion, Uncle Sam was described as:

Crusty former frontiersman and U.S. Army recruitment officer experiencing second act on Wall Street. Contrarian strategy: Invests exclusively in companies on the brink of bankruptcy; bullish on insolvent insurers, overleveraged banks, Detroit automakers and “toxic securities.” High net worth attributed to crafty purchase of U.S. Mint in 1792; printed $6 billion in September alone. Large interests in aerospace and defense. With 2003 real estate play in Middle East widely viewed as failure, some hope new management will clean up mess.

Rounding out the Fictional 15:

Uncle Sam
Scrooge McDuck
Richie Rich
Gordon Gekko
Jabba The Hutt
Ebeneezer Scrooge
Tony Stark
Thurston Howell III
Bruce Wayne
Adrian Veidt
Jed Clampett
Artemis Fowl II
C. Montgomery Burns
Lara Croft
Mr. Monopoly

You can read the entire article here.

abwhitford

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:28:13 GMT

12.21.1970: Elvis meets Nixon. [It's a great story, but I'll leave it for our forthcoming book on the war on drugs. The best part is that The King was packing heat when he showed up at the White House.]

12.21.1970: Elvis meets Nixon.

[It's a great story, but I'll leave it for our forthcoming book on the war on drugs. The best part is that The King was packing heat when he showed up at the White House.]

jly

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:16:38 GMT

On the Class Bias in Higher Education Blog Jeff Harrison posts reflections on how Gladwell’s “Outliers” applies to education and provides a personal experience: I was reminded how institutionalized the “special requests” have become when I visited my son’s school to pick him up after an exam that ended at 11 AM. I came across a [...]

On the Class Bias in Higher Education Blog Jeff Harrison posts reflections on how Gladwell’s “Outliers” applies to education and provides a personal experience:

I was reminded how institutionalized the “special requests” have become when I visited my son’s school to pick him up after an exam that ended at 11 AM. I came across a room full of kids still taking the exam at 11:30. He was not among them. I asked if the test had run over and the answer was “No, those are all the kids who get extra time for one reason or another.” And then the teacher added, “For a couple of thousand dollars evidently anyone can have a child diagnosed with something that results is extra time.” Yes, the teacher was describing yet another market the wealthy visit far more than the working class — the market for the disability advantage. In the room were kids with real disabilities and then kids who parents bought them a ticket for more time. (If you are wondering, in the article discussed in the post below, it is noted that “extra time people” score significantly higher on the SAT than others.)

For the entitled, Harrison argues (and I’m poorly paraphrasing), life is a zero sum game involving constant leveraging, claiming on public goods, and negotiation - all in order to gain advantage. Has this phenomenon (assuming you believe it) increased over time?

Robert Putnam argues that social capital has decreased over time and that this decrease has important implications for American life. Could this phenomenon be its lesser cousin? If so, what should we name it? And what’s the tag line? Perhaps, “Getting the Bigger Bowling Ball Because I’m Special”

abwhitford

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:56:52 GMT

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Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:18:54 GMT

Jawbreaker says “I wanna be your shirt”. Andrew Gelman blogs about statistical graphics on t-shirts. Which brings up the holiday season. Looking for a last minute gift for that person into statistical visualization? Try these! I am statistics ninja! Eat. Sleep. Statistics, which apparently can be bought on a thong. be happy. do statistics (Jeff, this is [...]

Jawbreaker says “I wanna be your shirt”. Andrew Gelman blogs about statistical graphics on t-shirts.

Which brings up the holiday season. Looking for a last minute gift for that person into statistical visualization? Try these!

I am statistics ninja!

Eat. Sleep. Statistics, which apparently can be bought on a thong.

be happy. do statistics (Jeff, this is also available as a dog t-shirt.)

One of Bayes rule, for those with spike priors.

Perhaps the creepiest: daddy’s little outlier.

Saddam Hussein’s Dysfunctional House of War

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:16:32 GMT

Ubaka Ogbogu over at UofA blog mentioned the new HBO series House of Saddam. Although I only caught a few episodes, here are my preliminary thoughts on the series. Accurate Information in the Fog of War Alex Homes, one of the researchers for the series, shares the difficulty in finding accurate information on Saddam’s life. Sally and I [...]

Ubaka Ogbogu over at UofA blog mentioned the new HBO series House of Saddam. Although I only caught a few episodes, here are my preliminary thoughts on the series.

Accurate Information in the Fog of War

Alex Homes, one of the researchers for the series, shares the difficulty in finding accurate information on Saddam’s life.

Sally and I started by reading all the biographies that had been written over the years. The first thing that struck us was how the accounts of Saddam changed over time. Fuad Matar’s biography, written in 1981 and containing extensive face to face interviews with Saddam, could not be more different that those written by Western journalists after the 1991 invasion of Kuwait. Finding incontrovertible facts was going to be a problem.

The context in which this series is written is essentially crucial, as the American electorate still struggles with a highly controversial conflict that they are still uncertain over why they are there. The infamous 2003 USA Today poll indicated that 70% believed Saddam was behind 9-11.

What We Won’t Hear Much Of

Biographical entries that will likely be glossed over or omitted from the series include how the CIA helped put Saddam in power in the first place, and helped him create lists of names for his mass graves,

In 1959, there was a failed assassination attempt on Qasim. The failed assassin was none other than a young Saddam Hussein. In 1963, a CIA-organized coup did successfully assassinate Qasim and Saddam’s Ba’ath Party came to power for the first time. Saddam returned from exile in Egypt and took up the key post as head of Iraq’s secret service. The CIA then provided the new pliant, Iraqi regime with the names of thousands of communists, and other leftist activists and organizers. Thousands of these supporters of Qasim and his policies were soon dead in a rampage of mass murder carried out by the CIA’s close friends in Iraq.

They will probably also overlook that the American administration helped arm Saddam with WMDs, as will the remarks by (Canadian born) U.S. ambassador April Glaspie, the State Department, and Assistant Secretary of State John Kelly over the Kuwaiti invasion.

America’s complicity in Saddam’s crimes will clearly be ignored, and of course the entire Iran-contra affair probably won’t even get a peep.

These inner corners of American politics, and how this knowledge affected the psyche and perspectives of Saddam, will be deliberately omitted.

As a reult, the series will eventually go down in history as a well-designed propaganda piece for an illegal war that destabilized the world for decades.

You voted. I saw 2 movies: "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Australia."

annalthouse@mac.com (Ann Althouse) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:55:49 GMT

You could have sent me to "Rachel Getting Married," "Milk," "Synecdoche, New York," or "Let the Right One In," but you chose "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Australia." I'll say a few things comparing the 2 movies, and I'll keep this spoiler free.

1. Both movies have an in-your-face sense of place. "Slumdog Millionaire," showing us India, has us running all over the slums of Bombay and touring the Taj Mahal. I get it. It's India. "Australia" fills the screen with the map of Australia and giant red rocks and expanses of dry wasteland. Yeah, that's Australia.

2. Both movies tell an elaborately plotted story through the eyes of a little boy. In "Slumdog," the boy, Jamal, plunges into a pool of shit to get his story going, and in "Australia," the boy, Nullah, plunges into a water tank to advance the plot. Our hearts are, of course, supposed to mesh with the heart of the central child character. This is a time-worn method of emotional manipulation, but it works pretty well in both movies. Both boys, for all their troubles, are magically lucky.

3. Both movies have lovers who are torn apart and brought together repeatedly, and both have key scenes where there is a lot of violent chaos and the lovers are running around looking for each other as time is about to run out. Both movies have big close-up kisses that seem to be about the cinematic history of big close-up kisses. There's no real fire between the lovers in either movie. They are big, pretty movie-star heads, but I didn't for one second believe I was looking at 2 human beings who were passionately in love with each other.

4. Both movies weave in a very familiar work of American pop culture. The whole story of "Slumdog Millionaire" is framed by a single performance on the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." This is the coolest thing about the movie and is extremely well done -- using flashbacks and quiz questions that relate to the past. "Australia" is strewn with references to the movie "The Wizard of Oz" that come and go and don't really pay off very well. Wishing, home... whatever. But it is pretty amusing when Nicole Kidman's character awkwardly and abysmally tries to tell the Oz story and sing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" to the boy and manages to inspire him in spite of her inadequacies.

5. Both movies have bathtubs. I'm slightly obsessed with the prominence of bathtubs in the movies. You'd think the most interesting thing in the world was a woman in a damned bath. "Australia" has the conventional lead actress taking a bath for no good reason. Hmm... 2 characters have to have a conversation. Let's put the woman in the bathtub. Depending on what rating you want, it will either be a bubble bath or it won't. It's embarrassing. "Slumdog Millionaire" has a memorably unusual use of the bathtub, so that was fine.

6. Things "Australia" has more of: cattle, horses, spears, bombs, airplanes, ships, sentimentality, pectoral muscles, drunk guys, fistfights, aborigines, contracts. Things "Slumdog Millionaire" has more of: shit, TV, doing laundry, guns, beggars, torture.

7. "Slumdog Millionaire" was a lot shorter and a lot better. "Australia" was a big epic that was completely old-fashioned except to the extent that there was supposed to be something hip about being intentionally old-fashioned. I'd rather watch "The African Queen" again, and if I need some hipness, let me watch it with hip people and we'll say hip things.

jly

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:09:10 GMT

Not to be confused with DJ Rob’s Top 5 lists in High Fidelity (below), these lists use M-H’s information to provide rankings of law firms on a number of dimensions. Here are the Top 10 US Law Firms by M-H visability (profile views) for November 2008: Rank Top 10 Law Firms: United States Change in Rank Last Month Months on [...]

Top 10 Law Firms: United States	Change in Rank	Months on list
1	Holland & Knight LLP	1	19
2	Greenberg Traurig, P.A.	2	19
3	DLA Piper	4	19
4	Jones Day	5	8
5	Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP	3	4
6	Mayer Brown LLP	10	13
7	Foley & Lardner LLP		1
8	Latham & Watkins LLP	8	5
9	McGuireWoods LLP		1
10	Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.	6	19

You can also rank on a number of other “top 10″ dimensions including: most peer reviewed lawyers (by A, B, or C rating), most compared, and most article views. You can also sort your rankings by practice area, country, or state.

However, DJ Rob is still the king of the top 5 lists. First, top 5 break ups:

Then, top 5 records:

And, of course top 5 things he misses about her:

… and for those who are ok with some bawdy language, the t0p 5 songs to make love to (bonus material, not in the movie):

jly

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:27:42 GMT

The New York Times has an interesting article and the cool graph above on teenage employment. The basic idea is that at times get tough, teenagers go to work. What would have been really interesting is to see some statistics on the type of job that teenagers have relative to their family’s socio-economic status. Not [...]

abwhitford

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:29:01 GMT

Do you remember?

American Idol Winner Reminded That Life Is Not a Fairytale

kelly.erb@b5media.com (Kelly Phillips Erb) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:25:49 GMT

var iamInit = function() {try{initIamServingHandler(234,156,340884,"http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/Resources/Css/css2.css")}catch(ex){}}() American Idol third season winner Fantasia Barrino may be losing her home. Well, one of her homes. One of Barrino’s homes, located in Charlotte, NC, and valued at $1.1 million, is going to auction after Barrino failed to pay a third party who covered her property taxes in 2006. According the Charlotte [...]

American Idol third season winner Fantasia Barrino may be losing her home. Well, one of her homes.

One of Barrino’s homes, located in Charlotte, NC, and valued at $1.1 million, is going to auction after Barrino failed to pay a third party who covered her property taxes in 2006.

According the Charlotte Observer, court documents indicate that a company called Broward Energy Partners paid more than $68,000 of Barrino’s property taxes in 2006. Barrino only repaid $10,000 of the loan. Broward sued to recover their losses and won by default, since Barrino was a “no show” at court.

Barrino is now required to pay the company the entire amount owed plus court costs and 8% interest, or the house will go to auction in January. Barrino allegedly claims that the whole thing is just a giant misunderstanding and that she simply missed her court date.

You know, maybe. But the whole thing is puzzling on a number of levels. For one, that amount of property taxes on a $1 million home seems extraordinarily high. Fan sites are reporting that the taxes on her less expensive property in the same city run less than $10,000 per year (take that with a grain of salt). It’s also puzzling that a star with a best selling album, Broadway role, successful book and more would fall behind on property taxes. And even if Barrino honestly missed her court date, why wouldn’t her lawyers and other financial advisors urge her to write a check immediately? It’s all sort of bizarre. I guess it shows that no one - even pop stars - are immune from the burden of property taxes.

But don’t cry for Barrino, she has another home located a few miles away - and one in Atlanta.

Richard Posner

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:56:01 GMT

I have recently read a trio of books by Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point, Outliers, and Blink. I will likely post on these reads in more depth in the future, but I recently read a review of Blink by Judge Richard Posner in The New Republic. He aptly articulates the gist of Gladwell’s work: Malcolm Gladwell, [...]

I have recently read a trio of books by Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point, Outliers, and Blink. I will likely post on these reads in more depth in the future, but I recently read a review of Blink by Judge Richard Posner in The New Republic. He aptly articulates the gist of Gladwell’s work:

Malcolm Gladwell, a journalist, wishes to bring to a popular audience the results of recent research in psychology and related disciplines, such as neuroscience, which not only confirm the importance of intuitive cognition in human beings but also offer a qualified vindication of it. He argues that intuition is often superior to articulate thinking. It often misleads, to be sure; but with an awareness of the pitfalls we may be able to avoid them.

Posner then makes a very interesting observation (especially for a judge):

When, many years ago, a judge confessed that his decisions were based largely on hunch, this caused a bit of a scandal; but there is increasing recognition that while judicial opinions, in which the judge explains his decision, are models of articulate thinking, the decision itself–the outcome, the winner–will often come to the judge in a flash. But finally the contrast between intuitive and articulate thinking is overdrawn: it ignores the fact that deliberative procedures can become unconscious simply by becoming habitual, without thereby being intuitive in the sense of pre-verbal or emotional; and that might be the case with judicial decisions, too.

In my mind this says a good bit about the judicial decision process - while opinions may be one thing, the outcome decision is very instinctive - notwithstanding Posner’s awkward backpedal there at the end of the statement. BTW, he hates Gladwell’s book. On this point, I respectfully dissent.

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