He's a Rare Kind of Republican

Somehow a lispy libertarian is beating all the other Republicans running.



Could it be that in 2008, instead of voting for the lesser of two evils, Americans will actually get to vote for the greater of two goods?

The Paradox of Choice

I was looking over this book, The Paradox of Choice, and I found it very interesting. It's central premise is that our assumption that having more and better options from which to choose makes us more satisfied is largely wrong. Obviously getting to choose something you clearly prefer over something you clearly don't is more satisfying than being stuck with something you don't want, but when you have a ton of options, all of which are pretty good, whatever you choose is not going to be as satisfying because you may wonder if what you did not choose would have been better.

One would think someone with fewer options would not be as happy as someone with lots of options, but when you have fewer options, you have fewer decisions to regret if they don't work out. Having more options is only beneficial to the very decisive. To everyone else, they are just distractions.