Grading is done, but I have one more meeting to go to before the official end of the semester. Blogging will be rather intermittent over the next several weeks. I've got two papers I need to finish and send out for rejection review and I have at least one more that needs to get started. And I've got lecture notes to type up for Sports Econ next semester. Oh, did I add in I'll have family currently living in Puerto Rico coming up for a visit over the holidays? That's just another reason to get out the HO scale trains and race cars. I hope they didn't sell off their big fluffy jackets when they left Ohio of PR. They'll need them in Minnesota - in spades.
Anyways, I wanted to leave you with a few excellent posts I've seen over the past couple of days just in case I don't get away from Christmas shopping and writing.
Bill Polley defends markets and so-called price-gougers.
Tom Kirkendall posts on the plight of a former North Korean prisoner. Something I learned from reading a link in Tom's post: up to 3 generations of a prisoner's family must be imprisoned as traitors.
Tom also posts on baseball's steroids problem.
Brian Goff posts on the same.