6/20/2006
- Name: John Lott
- Location: Virginia, United States
About Me
My commentary on a broad array of economics and crime related issues.
Most of my posts are now at the Crime Prevention Research Center. Our work is very important and you will find the latest information available there. Please click here or go to crimeresearch.org to get that information.
E-mail: johnrlott@crimeresearch.org
Academic Papers
- Terms of Use
Copyright 2005 by John R. Lott, Jr. All rights reserved
My Op-eds
More Books of Mine
Dumbing Down the Courts: How Politics Keeps the Smartest Judges Off the Bench
Straight Shooting: Firearms, Economics and Public Policy
Are Predatory Commitments Credible? Who Should the Courts Believe?
Reviews of Freedomnomics
Other Web sites
Previous Posts
- Kennedy ensures that the Clean Water Act will mean...
- Getting rid of the electoral college?: Proponents ...
- Jumps in Logic on Global Warming
- American Hunters and Shooters Association, revisited
- Some Spending Earmarks Detailed
- Devaluing achievement: "everyone can be a winner,"...
- Concealed Carry Permit holder defends himself in a...
- Apparently there are good reasons to sleep with yo...
- iPods and Baseball, even better together
- I thought that gun bans would stop this
Book Reviews
- For a list of book reviews on The Bias Against Guns, click here.
Interesting Past Topics
-Research finding a drop in violent crime rates from Right-to-carry laws
-Ranking Economists
-Interview with the Washington Post
-Debate on "Guns Reduce Crime"
-Appalachian law school attack
-Sources for Defensive Gun Uses
-The Merced Pitchfork Killings
-Fraudulent website pretending to be run by me
-Steve Levitt's Correction Letter
-Ian Ayres and John Donohue
-Other issues regarding Steve Levitt
-National Academies of Science Panel on Firearms
-Baghdad murder rate
-Arming Pilots
-General discussion of my 1997 and 2002 surveys as well as related surveys
-Problems with Wikipedia
-Errata for Gun Books
-US Supreme Court Wire
-Futures for Financial Markets
-judgepedia
Links
Economist and Law Professor David D. Friedman's Blog
Larry Elder's The Elder Statement
Economist Robert G. Hansen's Blog
Firearmstruth.com -- a media-watchdog website
A debate that I had with George Mason University's Robert Ehrlich on guns
Lyonette Louis-Jacques's page on Firearms Regulation Worldwide
An interview concerning More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
The End of Myth: An Interview with Dr. John Lott
Art DeVany's website, one of the more innovative economists in the last few decades
St. Cloud State University Scholars
Bryan Caplan at George Mason University
Alphecca -- weekly review on the media's coverage of guns
Xrlq -- Some interesting coverage of the law.
Career Police Officer
Gun Law News
Georgia Right-to-Carry
Darnell's The Independent Conservative Blog
Robert Stacy McCain's Blog
Clayton Cramer's Blog
My hidden mathematical ability (a math professor with the same name)
geekwitha45
My Old AEI Web Page
Wrightwing's blog
Al Lowe's blog
St. Maximos' Hut
Dad29
Elizabeth Blackney's blog
Eric Rasmusen
Your "Economics" Portal to the World by Larry Low
William Sjostrom
Dr. T's EconLinks.com
Interview with National Review Online
Blog at Newsmax.com
Pieces I have written at BigGovernment.com
Data
- Johnlott.org
(description of book, downloadable data sets, and discussions of previous controversies)
Updated Media Analysis of Appalachian Law School Attack
Journal of Legal Studies paper on spoiled ballots during the 2000 Presidential Election
Data set from USA Today, STATA 7.0 data set
"Do" File for some of the basic regressions from the paper
7 Comments:
I think it's a Jap video...I don't know what the deal is, but it is not unusual to bizarro-world freaksville stuff emerge from the land of the rising sun.
Perhaps consuming LSD would offer some insight? ;-)
At least the chicks were cute...
It's Japanese. I speak a little and even if I didn't, I'd be able to tell since only the Japanese could come up with something as wacky as this.
And the sad thing is that no matter how creative they get with teaching English, it never works well.
Its Japanese, I think. Not too sure but Chinese use vertical characters as opposed to horizontal writing of others. Perhaps the video is just a spoof? Even East Asians can have a sense of humor at times!
I spent 10 days in Japan some time ago and the way that English was used was always quite amusing. Lots of signs were in English, but they usually made no sense: "I feel Coke" or "I Taste Lark." On the back of hotel room doors where they would have information for guests, the write up was often unintentionally quite funny. I think that the word "of" was there favorite word or at least someone had convinced them that every third word should be "of."
It's definitely Japanese. And it's entirely unintentional if I guess correctly. Engrish is one of those peculiar facets of japanese culture that loves anything American. As a country they're pretty innocent on the grand scheme of things. Of many things to find annoying or insulting, I can't do anything but laugh about this one. It's cute and silly in a typically Japanese way.
Here is another version of the same video, but in this one the dance is interspersed with a little skit of a woman being robbed by two men, then going to the police.
Note, the site contains ads and other content some may find offensive. The Hadji Girl video was number one there for a few days, though.
Dear Scott:
Thanks very much. I guess that the version I put up was the sanitized version.
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