.
1. Sometimes it's relaxing to listen to Garrison Keiller's "A Prairie Home Companion" on Sunday NPR. Today he mocked the Reps. "Ever since I became a Republican, I lost interest in politics". Good one!

2. Another really good stuff from EconomicPrincipals.com's Dave Warsh. In his nice obituary for Franco Modigliani he also refined his categorization of economists. Quoted: "There were Keynesians (Paul Samuelson, John Hicks, Wassily Leontief, Lawrence Klein, Robert Solow, James Tobin, Franco Modigliani). There were the Moderns (Kenneth Arrow, John Nash, Tjalling Koopmans, Herbert Simon, Gerard Debreu, Trygve Haavelmo, Maurice Allais). There were Chicagoans (Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Theodore Schultz, Friedrich Hayek, Ronald Coase, James Buchanan, Harry Markowitz, Merton Miller, Gary Becker, Robert Lucas, James Heckman). And there were those who were honored in elsewhere than in Stockholm (Joan Robinson, George Dantzig, Albert Hirschman, Gordon Tullock, Janos Kornai)..."

3. Just learned today that Socrates was ugly. But why do historians care? They say: Socrates was half goat half man. Can't be more irrelevant.