Archive for August, 2009
Monday, August 24th, 2009
The Secret to My Success
I love xkcd!
Tech Support Cheat Sheet:
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Stupidity causes food to go to waste, increased prices for consumers
Record cherry crop will be left on trees – UPI.com:
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Aug. 22 (UPI) — Tart cherry farmers near Traverse City, Mich., and in six other states are as sour as their fruit over a mandate they must not harvest the whole crop, one said. Rob Manigold, one of the Michigan farmers who grow [...]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
To quote Weird Al, “Everything You Know Is Wrong”
More Evidence That We’re All Getting Richer:
Steve Horwitz
While looking for something else, I stumbled across this Census report on household income from 2006. What’s really interesting is to look at the percentage of households in each income category and how that’s changed over time. If the prophets of doom and decline and rising [...]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Less Power=Less Maddening Actions
The Problem With Politics:
The way to avoid the maddening convulsions of politics isn’t to change them, or rise above them, or move past them, or transform them, or whatever the trendy term of art is on any given day. It’s to avoid them—and reduce their power to hold sway over how we live. And the [...]
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Something Is Happening Here, But You Don’t Know What It Is…
Something Is Happening Here, But You Don’t Know What It Is…:
Seems to me the media accounts of this story are missing the point. Yes, it’s amusing and a bit surreal to picture Bob Dylan wandering around a local neighborhood near where he’s giving a concert. But now everyone’s having a good laugh about how two [...]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
The decline and fall….
Panem et Circenses:
The Los Angeles Times reports that Uncle Sam is on the verge of paying the City of Los Angeles $30 million to subsidize a ten-year run of Cirque du Soleil.
So it’s finally come to pass – America has embarked on the same road down which ancient Rome marched to its ruin: Uncle Sam [...]
