July 29, 2010

Gypsy Facts

Béla Janky's 2006 paper on Gypsies in Hungary, "The Social Position and Fertility of Roma Women," has lots of interesting facts from the big survey of Roma in 2003. For example, the overall Hungarian total fertility rate is 1.3 babies per woman per lifetime, but for Roma women in 2003, it was 3.0.

And Gypsy generation times are considerably shorter:

The final word on Oliver Stone

I have a nostalgic interest in Oliver Stone, going back to 1986, the Year of the Three Olivers (Oliver Stone's Salvador and Platoon, Oliver North's Iran-Contra Scandal, and Oliver Sachs's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat). Clearly, Stone is over the hill and burnt out now, but for somebody of my generation, he's an interesting figure who burned brightly for a few years before everybody decided to hate him.

Rob Sanchez On BlogTalkRadio--"The Ruthie Report"

Rob Sanchez is on BlogTalkRadio--"The Ruthie Report", 8:00 PM CST, I. E. Right now.

SB 1070 as a Ballad?

I see the Federale blog has supplied a useful amplification to Heather McDonald’s NRO discussion about the flimsiness of the reasoning Judge Susan Bolton used to camouflage her tyrannical action on SB1070 yesterday.

"Dirt Gap" Validated

Here's a study called "Residential Land Use Regulation and the US Housing Price Cycle Between 2000 and 2009" by Haifang Huang and Yao Tang that does a regression analysis on U.S. metropolises that comes to some of the same conclusions as I've been saying since my "Dirt Gap" article right after the 2004 election.

Huang and Tang find that the size of both the housing price inflation in 2000-2006 and the size of the price crash in 2006-2009 correlate with: