Interesting from Everywhere

• Falkenstein commenting on a neg-upgrade?  My bet is it doesn't take off, because self-deprecation violates some of the "game"-r other- (higher) priorities.  
• Gelman largely validates the male-female personality differences study.
• Will Wilkinson on Leiter on Marxism: " ...make no mistake, Marxists did lose a big argument, one we now know as "the 20th century." The evidence has been in a while. People fare best in liberal-democratic welfare states with capitalist economic systems. This is a fact available to any honest inquirer. The places where human needs are best met are not those in which aggrieved majorities swoop in and suddenly confiscate 3/4 of the assets of successful capitalists. They are places that don't do that."
• Tuttle on the confusion between crony-capitalism and capitalism:   "So long as the confusion between free markets and plutocracy persists – so long as libertarians allow their laudable attraction to free markets to fool them into defending plutocracy, and so long as those on the left allow their laudable opposition to plutocracy to fool them into opposing free markets – neither libertarians nor the left will achieve their goals, and the state-corporate partnership will continue to dominate the political scene."
• Tim B. Lee:  Google is indeed less evil.
• Obama does something right.
• Caplan: what would real real GDP be?
• Kling with a decent response to McArdle's muddleheadedness on Copyright.
• CoyoteBlog channels Hayek re: the Fed.
• Caplan:  Egalitarianism necessarily increases inequality.
• John Goodman notes we've found the mechanism for finite willpower.
• HBDChick points out an obvious truth to go with Caplan's from a few days ago.  If it's configured as us vs. them...killing them (in an unpunished fashion) is the smart thing to do.  One reason I really dislike Jehu's us-vs-them strategizing.