ARNOLD KLING
August 14, 2011
The Top Political Contributors
August 11, 2011
Gender and the New Commanding Heights
August 11, 2011
Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
August 11, 2011
Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
August 10, 2011
Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
August 14, 2011
The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
August 12, 2011
The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
August 12, 2011
Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
August 10, 2011
Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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Congratulations!
congrats
Your boys can swim!
Wonderful! My sincerest congratulations.
(And now I'll selfishly have something else to distract me at 2.00am.)
Congrats man! Good news indeed.
My prediction: A girl. ;-)
How's your happiness? Joking aside, congratulations!
Congratulations! The world needs one more rabble rouser.
Mazel tov.
Congratulations!
Congratulations! Another Camplin baby is also on the way. Mid-September due date.
Excellent! More stimulus on the way (diapers, clothes, furniture, etc)
Also, congrats. Also congrats to Troy Camplin.
Me, I've had my three, so I've already done my part :)
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Congratulations to you and your wife.
Dear Bryan,
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING COULD UPSET SOME READERS
One other comment. You wrote the following:
When you ask an individual point-blank, "Why aren't you having any more kids?," there is a good chance that you are thoughtlessly twisting the knife.
That's a good point.
There's sometimes another side to it, though. Because you're a thoughtful, gentle person who practices what he preaches, you never asked me why Rena and I have only one kid. But in telling you the painful story of why, I discharged some of the feelings. Similarly, I like it when people ask me how my brother died because when I tell about his suicide, I discharge some of the pain from that awful event 39 years ago.
So it sometimes helps to ask people personal things if you're really willing to listen. It's a judgment call.
Your friend,
David
Awesome! The sonogram shows what appears to be a virgin holding a sheaf of wheat.
A selfish reason for me to want Bryan Caplan to have more kids....
More little Caplans will likely make the world a better place.
Congrats and thank you!
Congrats! Pic looks like there's a sole occupant in there this time. Hope Tristan and Aidan don't think the little one's too lonely in there.
Congrats!
"Starting mid-September, I'll be expecting another baby..."
Okay, if it weren't for the ultrasound photo with yesterday's date, I would have taken this phrasing to mean you and your wife had just decided to have another child -- and that you expected the conception process to take about 7 months.
Just think, a little constipated Caplan that can't make up its mind over the marginal utility it would derive from loading its diaper or continuing to hold it in.
shouldn't someone who is older and already finished raising kids be the only person to say that its worth having kids? And I know your reasons are the selfish reasons to have kids, but you should really consider what a kid wants, which is impossible to determine, and so in my mind one should never have kids. you may be happy in this life, but what about the risk that the kid is born with a disease or is teased at school or that has to experience their parents die or grows up to be totally depressed? I never want to have kids because there is no way to guarantee your kid will be happy. And if you want a kid, their potential happiness should be a major consideration. Sorry to ruin the party. Did I mention that I also hate kids?
Congratulations!
I have to echo what Glen said...until I noticed the ultrasound image.
Just had our first a couple months ago, and lo and behold, he accompanies me on my nocturnal blogging.
congratulations!
Congratulations Bryan. I cosign stanfo's thoughts. We need more folks like you around.