Absinthe

My fear that drinking absinthe would make me go crazy is waning, and the herbaciousness of the flavor profile makes me think I'd be quite a big fan. Mayyyybe it doesn't make you go mad after all!?

It is an anise-flavored spirit derived from herbs, including the flowers and leaves of the herb Artemisia absinthium... Yum, right?

Reality TV and Drug Trials

Slate article about how short term drug trials don't always indicate long term results. It uses reality show winners as an analogy.

NY Fed

It's too bad Eliot Spitzer was hiring all those prostitutes. He's written a number of articles for slate that seem to really be on the ball, and sometimes ahead of the rest of the news (especially the stuff about looking at where AIG payments went and why they were paid in full instead of looking at the bonuses). Of course, considering he's one of my few insights into Wall Street it is a bit circular for me to assume he's totally right.

Anyway, here's his latest slate article pointing out how questionably the NY Fed is run.