Economics professor Mark Perry points us to a fascinating story. A Chinese man reportedly hired virtual assassins to kill his son’s World of Warcraft avatar after becoming frustrated with the amount of time his son spent playing...

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is a huge baseball fan. Earlier this year, Bernanke who has an engraved Louisville baseball bat, told ABC News that he is “very optimistic” about the Nationals this year.  Naturally, after this...