LINK: I forgot to mention yesterday that Yglesias' suggestion for a Federal Dating Service is brilliant (and funny), and reminds me of the following:
"Boswell: Then, Sir, you are not of opinion with some who imagine that certain men and certain women are made for each other; and that they cannot be happy if they miss their counterparts?
Johnson: To be sure not, Sir. I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter."
And if Samuel Johnson thinks it's a good idea, well, that settles the matter.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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