From The Liberal Order:

Barry Schwartz believes that Americans suffer from too many choices. (PDF file) The result is that we become overwhelmed with too many choices, become depressed, and consequently lead less fulfilling.

I’m certain that Schwartz did not mean that there are too many ideas from which to choose to believe in, but why not? It’s overwhelming listening to political ads during campaigns or editorials and stories on major topics in newspapers. As Ronald Coase said, the reasons for regulating markets for goods is no different than the reasons for regulating markets for ideas, execpt that there’s probably more reason to regulate the latter.

I wonder which ideas Schwarts recommends we eliminate from the set from which we choose.

I haven’t had a reason to see the new movie Sin City, but one reason is because if you see it you are thumbing your nose at the Directors Guild of America.

The answer is that that is all the ligaments and tendons in the arm can take.

I saw this website and the first thing I thought was, “these are amazing pictures from a camera phone.” I then realized that that’s the point of the website. Sony Ericsson has probably hired Robert Clark to travel America and shoot pictures with their spiffy S710a to show that you can take good pictures with this camera phone.

Check it out, the picture are pretty amazing, especially since they were taken with a camera phone.

This is really lame. Sesame Street is getting rid of the Cookie Monster and replacing him with Hoots the Owl. I didn

I have not clue what this is, but I’m scared.

If you’ve ever wanted an example of someone attacking the messenger and not the message, Bill Clinton does a great job of that here:

Former President Bill Clinton wasn’t about to let just anybody attack his wife – especially a gay Republican operative.

Clinton fired back yesterday, suggesting that political consultant Arthur Finkelstein, who has launched a “Stop Her Now” campaign, is suffering from “self-loathing.”

Finkelstein married his male partner in a civil ceremony in Massachusetts in December, with a few of his conservative clients at the nuptial.

“… He went to Massachusetts and married his longtime male partner and then he comes back here and announces this,” Clinton said at a Harlem news conference.

“I thought, one of two things. Either this guy believes his party is not serious, and is totally Machiavellian in his position, or there’s some sort of self-loathing there. I was more sad for him.”

His decision to bring up Finkelstein’s sexuality hearkened back to a similar remark made by John Kerry in an Oct. 13, 2004, presidential debate.

In responding to a question whether homosexuality was a matter of choice, Kerry said, “I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney’s daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she’s being who she was, she’s being who she was born as.”

QandO looks at what liberty to buy and sell things really means (and points out how the NY Times is all for liberty for some people, but not all).

Enjoy.

Quench your thirst for knowledge with this April Fool’s Day joke from Google.