Links I liked

• Finally, a group brave enough to stand up to the annual display of immorality that is Saint Valentines Day. At least someone’s got their priorities straight.
• Angus Deaton questions the gospel of randomized evaluations. In my opinion, randomized evaluations are the worst method of gathering information on program effectiveness -- except for all the other methods that have been tried. Deaton gives some good reasons why results from randomized evaluations may not be as watertight as many assume, but reading his article didn't lead me to fundamentally alter that opinion.
  
• America's fiscal deficit miraculously plugged