Random links
- God's little rabbits: Religious people out-reproduce secular ones by a landslide
- "… women among all denominational categories give birth to far more children than the non-affiliated. And this remains true even among those (Jewish and Christian) communities who combine nearly double as much births with higher percentages of academics and higher income classes as their non-affiliated Swiss contemporaries."
- Weisleder: Religious marriage does not include property rights
- I'm a little bit confused about this one given the state of the law regarding common-law relationships - however the judge in this case appears to have distinguished between the religious marriage (in this case under Sharia law) and the state endorsement of this several years later in determining how property is to be divided in the event of a divorce.
- To cut the deficit, get rid of our surplus of laws
- "Every law should automatically expire after 10 or 15 years. Such a universal sunset provision would force Congress and the president to justify the status quo and give political reformers an opening to reexamine trade-offs and public priorities." - how it's easier to get a new program than to kill an old. Another suggestion: "There is one common technique that has been used in successful legal overhauls, from Justinian's recodification in ancient times to the Napoleonic code that is the basis of modern European civil law to the uniform commercial code adopted in the United States in the 1950s. The technique is this: radical simplification."
- The World's Most Expensive Drugs
- "The nine drugs on our list all cost more than $200,000 a year for the average patient who takes them. Most of them treat rare genetic diseases that afflict fewer than 10,000 patients. For these diseases, there are few if any other treatments. So biotech companies can charge pretty much whatever they want."