Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is still getting the Obama treatment. 

During a speech in Waterloo, Ontario on Friday in which he was discussing his Liberal government's first budget, a reporter asked Trudeau about his government's strategy on ISIS, the reporter prefaced the question by stating, "I was going to ask you about quantum computing but...."

And Trudeau, ever the show off, answered the question about quantam computing much to the delight of an audience of theoretical physicists. 

However, Trudeau was a lot less forthcoming when it came to answering the reporter's question about ISIS. 

It's all well and good that Trudeau knows about quantam computers. Unfortunately, it does nothing to defeat ISIS. 

Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper probably couldn't tell you about binary systems, but I bet he has a much better idea about how to defeat ISIS than Justin Trudeau does.

Last night in my seminar on Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations my students and I covered Smith’s chapters on public goods. During the course of the discussion one of my superb students, Chris Kuiper, mentioned in passing that Paul Krugman, in a recent New York Times column, mistakenly described safe drinking water as a public good. Here’s that column. Mr. Krugman emphasizes that safe drinking water is a public good according to “Econ 101.”

(Please excuse me for a moment while I take a sip of water from my bottle of Aquafina…. Ok — my thirst is now well and truly and safely quenched. Back to this blog post…)

The Golden State Warriors made NBA history with a 125-104 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies in the final game of the regular season. The Warriors finished the 2015-2016 season 73-9 besting the 72-10 mark set by the Chicago Bulls 20 years ago. Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr was a member of that Bulls team. Of course, Kerr was sidelined for more than half the season recovering from back surgery. It was under Lukes Walton began the season 24-0 and winning 39 of its first 43 games before Kerr took back the reins.

But where would this team have been without Stephen Curry? He sank his 400th 3-pointer last night shattering his own record of 286 a year ago. A second consecutive NBA MVP is on the order paper for Curry.

How good were the Warriors? The 5-time NBA champion San Antonio Spurs were 67-15. Normally that would have been the the league's best record. Instead the Spurs finished 6 games back of the Warriors.

On Monday & Tuesday night, I watched both parts of Ken Burns' Jackie Robinson mini-series on PBS.

I was already familiar with most of Robinson's biography, but was fascinated with the light shed on his post-playing career particularly his political involvement with the Republican Party.

Of course, I knew Robinson supported Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election, but did not realize the contempt in which he held John F. Kennedy. Robinson was even less impressed after meeting with JFK who told him he hadn't met with many black people by virtue of being from Massachusetts. An angry Robinson told JFK it was his job as a Senator to meet with all Americans. Robinson was also appalled at JFK's selection of Lyndon Johnson as his running mate. During his time as Senate Majority Leader, LBJ had shown little interest in civil rights which was typical of Southern Democrats of that era.