Chicken Little
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Or, what goes up, must come down. Oh, look! It went back up again!
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Or, what goes up, must come down. Oh, look! It went back up again!
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 journalist...
There’s a woodpecker knocking on my house.
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 ho...
(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;...
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...
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 t...
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 ...
Ancient Rome gave away bread. We give away television. % of television-watching population which receives their television signal over-the-air, and will be affe...
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...
In this political season, it’s helpful to remember that it’s all about popular. … think of Celebrated heads of state, Or specially great commu...
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 Frid...
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 app...
Every now and again I would appreciate a comment on here that’s not spam.
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...