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A rational investor presumably seeks out all the available data about housing markets.  One paticularly alluring piece of information, it seems to me, is the national days-on-market average - the…

I think so.  Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post notes that many pundits have written off Hillary.  But he says that he's not ready to declare the race over yet…

Massachusetts state legislator Demetrius Atsalis has proposed that high risk sex offenders be prohibited from voting at polling places located in libraries and schools.  As he explained, "if someone has…

What are the odds of contracting a computer virus when you download a free file?  I was pondering this question yesterday as I found an apparent link to a lecture…

Howard Wasserman over at Prawfs has a great conversation going on about this narrow but absolutely critical scholarship question:  how do you write?  Do you draft the piece freestyle, straight…

Here is one of those Steven Levitt Freakonomics mysteries I've been pondering recently.  As many people know, designer knockoff bags are sold by vendors on Manhattan's Canal Street.  You can…

In the search for an understanding of New York's new governor, here's one more tidbit for the pile.  When it came to Megan's Law, he was the rare rational legislator. …

Call it a blogger confessional.   I know that I haven't been putting up hugely substantive posts of late.  Those entries take more time and concentration than I can currently muster…

Belle Lettre has a good list of interesting posts on Eliot Spitzer here. As always,  sometimes, the Smoking Gun has the primary documents here and here. Update:  I'm behind the…

Apparently they do in the California State University system.  This from the SF Chronicle: As a Quaker, [Cal State East Bay teacher] Kearney-Brown is committed to nonviolence and was unwilling…