There are a few things that are well worth a glance this weekend:
Gerard Vanderleun of American Digest is back from retreat and, judging by this post, it’s done him some good. Be sure and read Laguna Dawn. Damn, that’s good writing.
Don’t miss A Daily Briefing on Iran’s coverage of a symposium on the future of terrorism featuring the “terrorologist to the blogosphere” Dan Darling.
Elite Chinese Politics and Political Economy has an update on the ins and outs of the Chinese banking system. Here’s a handy key to the abbreviations so you can make heads or tails out of it:
AMC
asset management companies. IIRC four state-owned asset management corportations were set up to help bail out and clean up the Chinese banking system.
BOC
Bank of China (one of the Big Four Chinese banks)
capital adequacy ratio. The Basel Accord sets a standard of a minimum of 8% for a bank’s CAR.
CCB
Chinese Construction Bank (one of the Big Four)
ICBC
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (the financially weakest of the Big Four)
Wretchard of Belmont Club has jumped ship from the sinking Blogger and has moved to spacious new digs. High ceilings. Low floors. Change your blogrolls, folks! The archives will remain in place to preserve old links.
Calculated Risk highlights the relationship between housing prices and trade deficits.
Here are some things (mostly humorous) worth a glance this weekend:
The funniest post of the weekend is from Balkinization:
My Prediction on the Ten Commandments Case
Justice O’Connor upholds five, strikes down five.
Jeff at Beautiful Atrocities isn’t far behind with his post: Oliver Willis Must Resign.
You might want to check out Boing Boing’s war with North Korea.
Gene Expression points to an amusing critical Spy vs. Spy in review of The Blank Slate. There’ve been quite a few good posts on sociobiology over there, as well.
Lawrence Solum of Legal Theory Blog has the next installment of his legal theory lexicon. This time he’s posted about virtue jurisprudence.
David Adesnik of OxBlog has an interesting rundown of reaction to the unfolding events in Lebanon from the left side of the blogosphere.
The Curt Jester links to an instant workshop generator (if you’ve ever wondered how those workshop agendas get constructed).
I’ve taken a quick glance at a few things this weekend:
Ann Althouse posts about the rising tide of Dutch emigration.
The housing problem she writes about has been going on forever there. I recall that when I was there quite
a few years ago nearly everyone complained of it. Land, in particular, is nearly impossible to come
by. Any country that extends their land surface out into the ocean by building dikes has a pretty obvious
problem. And the apartments I visited when I was there were uniformly dreary and cramped. Do you remember
the squatters’ revolt there of 20 years ago? Here’s
some background on the squatting problem in the Netherlands.
Marc Schulman of American Future has a round-up of reactions to Mubarak’s announced reforms. One that Marc has missed but that’s very worth reading is Abu Aardvark’s. Reaction from Egyptian blogger Big Pharaoh.
Kris of Anywhere But Here blogs about giving her daughter The TALK. They’re blogging about everything these days.
There’s a lot of Oscar blogging going on today. Bioethics Discussion Blog has a post about the inaccurate portrayal of legal and ethical medical issues in Million Dollar Baby (spoilers).
There have been some tremendous comments threads in the last week or so over at Dean’s World. Take a look at this one that followed an excellent post by guest poster Trudy Schuett on the limitations of programs for women who are victims of domestic violence.
Steve Antler of Econopundit has read Michael Crichton’s latest science thriller, State of Fear and has some choice comments. If you’re a frequent reader of Steve’s (I am), you’ll know there are lots of charts and graphs.
The inimitable Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom’s version how to succeed at blogging. Click all the way through to his advice.
