A Few Short Links

From the Claremont blogosphere:

• The Forum's laughablly vague "Rules of Conduct." It really is ridiculous. Good thing it is almost never enforced. But I really don't think anyone should have this kind of power...
• Amy Jasper suggests that CMC is male-dominated. It isn't. 52 percent of the freshman class is female, but even if we suspect that it is, so what? What's wrong with masculinity?
• William Voegeli, a visiting scholar at Claremont McKenna's Salvatori Center and sometime government professor, has two great City Journal essays on California's growing and incompetent public sector. They remind me of what Fareed Zakaria said, that while Californians like to brag that we would be the 7th largest economy in the world, we'd also be under IMF receivership.

From the rest of the blogosphere

• The Institute for Justice is suing to open up bone marrow to economic competition. They say that a law regulating it is unconstitutional. I agree, but why stop at bone marrow? Why not make the case for blood as well? (As I did in The American.) The empirical case has been building: my friend and co-worker, Dane Stangler, sent me someting earlier about blood donation compensation via Robin Hanson.
• Riley Lewis (CMC 2011) and I are preparing for Jeopardy auditions on November 8th. I sure hope the categories I get are as easy as this one about economic history and that my opponents know as little as these folks do!