[NonZeroSum]

His tastes are very eclectic, that's for sure. And I still can't figure out there the heck he has all that time to surf the web and post comments on his web log all day. He's certainly Posnerian in that regard.

Well, people who do research and writing for a living cam find time to do such things. As someone who runs my own weblog, I find that it doesn't take as much time as one might think, assuming that one already is spending a lot of time working on a computer, and can do it in spurts and breaks. He doesn't actually write all that much--he mostly posts short comments about stuff that other people write,and weblog software makes this pretty painless.

I take it "NonZeroSum" is reference to the classic rejoinder to the Hobbesian argument for the State, no?

Actually not--it's more of a reference to game theory, and Robert Wright's book of the same name.

[Scalia Rules]

1) The rejoinder to Hobbes IS game theory. A stateless society, contra Hobbes, is not a zero-sum game, but more of a hawk-dove game, where cooperation in the norm.

2) Robert Wright is a pretentious bore. Like Tom Friedman of the NY Times, he is much smarter than the average journalistic pundit, but at the same time way way overrated. Only a fews hours after the attacks on the morning of Sept. 11, he's up on Slate.com saying "s=See, see, see everybody, this PROVES we don't need National Missile Defense."

[Scalia Rules]

Well I "research and write for a living," too--just not as law professor, but as a commercial and appellate litigator. I think law professors like him have the time to put up a web log like that. He probably teaches two classes a semeser, three at the most. I, on the other hand, have to find the time to bill 2100 hours per year to somebody willing to pay my going rate.