I don't know how long this shiny dime has been sitting on the street waiting for me to pick it up, but Steven Leavitt and Stephen Dubner have started a blog about Freakonomics (a Rouge Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything), which is not only their book but their viewpoint.
Leavitt is the economist who noticed (and pointed out) that for all our national angst about guns, more children die in backyard swimming pools every year than by mishaps with the home arsenal.
He seems happy to annoy the entire political spectrum - other research includes a discussion of the correlation between a rising abortion rate and a falling crime rate. (I have not yet read that study, only heard him discuss it, so take that semi-sentence summary with large grains of salt.)
A excellent opportunity to question a few assumptions.
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