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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Chicken Little
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Or, what goes up, must come down. Oh, look! It went back up again!
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Perceptions
The newspaper says there’s a problem, but is there really? via Tom Palmer, David Cay Johnston wonders the same thing. In a letter to his fellow journalists, he writes, In covering the proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street don’t … Continue reading
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Angling for Satisfaction
The excerpts from, and an interview with the author of, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency are disturbing, and reinforce what we already suspected. In what I hope is not a quixotic exercise, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has brought suit, Jewel … Continue reading
Depression
(some observations, which I’ll hopefully clean up and form into a coherent post) Some say the financial crisis is a market failure, fixable by regulation; others, that it’s a regulatory failure, fixable by the market. In any case, someone took … Continue reading
When Pigs Fly
I tend to agree with Greg Mankiw — more generally with Arthur Pigou — on his recommendation to increase certain taxes in order to cover the external costs that those products feed. However, there’s a flawed assumption in the analysis. … Continue reading
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Greetings, Sports Fans!
Watching the Presidential caucus race is, for me at least, akin to watching baseball. It helps to look at it as a team sport, with a rivalry as deep-seated as that between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red … Continue reading
Navel Gazing
For one of her classes last year, D. wrote a paper which analyzes an effect of the self-absorption of the media, in response to one of the unfounded assertions in the class’s text, that the rise of the Internet and … Continue reading
The Circus Subsidy
Ancient Rome gave away bread. We give away television. % of television-watching population which receives their television signal over-the-air, and will be affected by this cutover: 16.2 % of population which receives their signal from cable, and thus unaffected: 57 … Continue reading
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First Impressions of Google Chrome: A List
Show search results from my history first, not from the web. So, how do bookmarklets work now? Default to restoring open tabs. Where’s that “Open in [other browser]” menu item to work around broken web sites? Guess I’ll have to … Continue reading
A Reminder
In this political season, it’s helpful to remember that it’s all about popular. … think of Celebrated heads of state, Or specially great communicators! Did they have brains or knowledge? Don’t make me laugh! They were POPULAR! Please! It’s all … Continue reading
Complex Sentences
Today I learned that my daughter’s 3rd grade class takes their clipboards to the school garden, and then writes something about what they observe. On Friday, they wrote one of each type of sentence. The Big Sister showed us where … Continue reading
Internal Improvements
I read in The Poughkeepsie Journal the other day that Dutchess County is considering widening 1.8 miles of Noxon Road, and that the project requires Federal approval because they’re providing 80% of the funds for it. The United States Federal … Continue reading
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The Transcendent Challenge of Our Time
Every now and again I would appreciate a comment on here that’s not spam.
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Foreign Oil Slicks
The speakers at the Republican convention are harping on exploiting domestic energy sources in order to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of oil. Because, after all, Canada is an unreliable trading partner. And the world market never, ever, impacts … Continue reading
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