Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Presidency as Game Show

Alex Tabarrok's idea of choosing presidents via game show (link) is indeed cool, but there is something irretrievably dorky about economists choosing sex symbols who just happen to share a surname with, well, somebody kind of famous (link).

Update: Mrs. Buce reminds me of the story of Barack Obama's wife--how, in their dating days, she sent him out to play tennis with her brother, to find out whether he was a gentlemen. And that reminds me of what must be the best political book of the last decade -- Don Van Natta's First off the Tee, about presidential golf (link).

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