Octopodial Chrome

The National Review has a great article on the failed Policy Analysis Market proposal. It's much better written than my own screed. Well worth reading.

Saw the film This is My Father Tuesday. Like many films, it's well made, but is lacking. The essential plot is that a fellow goes to Ireland to find out who his father was. He discovers that his mother had gotten pregnant by a slightly older farmer who went on to commit suicide. It had the typical anti-Catholic bias one might expect in such a film: the lovers' behaviour was portrayed as acceptable and that church's ministers were portrayed as fire-and-brimstone types (which rings false—I've never thought of Irish Catholics as being particularly dour). There's a bit of disapproval over the fact that the suicide is not allowed a church burial—but his death is exactly a choice of despair and lack of faith in God; how could the church allow a burial?

Not really worth seeing, I'm afraid. Some pretty girls in it, though, which is never a bad thing.