It is tricky. At some point, I always get tired of flipping throught the three radio stations that might play something good but usually don’t and are broadcasting commercials 3/4 of the time anyway.
It just gets irritating.
Since it is the weekend, my Diane Rheims (sp?)/Rush Limbaugh whiplash listening is not possible. (Diane ends [...]
YouTube – Jim Rogers in the Max Keiser ’s Oracle 27 February 2009.
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NPR: Household Debt Vs. GDP.
I heard this broadcast from Planet Money. It was quite interesting. The commenters are right that it can’t simply be said that “the problem is us” meaning we all just happened to go into more debt. Something happened to extend credit to those who should not have been extended credit.
But the [...]
“Doublethink” means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Is it any surprise that people have to say things like this to Obama?
With all due respect Mr. President, we were hoping your administration would not carry on the war mongering policies of your predecessor. Instead we see amazingly that you Seek $75.5 Billion More for Wars in 2009. Mr. President, do we really need [...]
My fellow Americans, before enumerating my many disagreements with the policies outlined by the president, let me acknowledge why we had a Democratic president standing before a Democratic-controlled Congress tonight. The Republican party – my party – lost its way. In doing so, we lost your trust and our power.
We were supposed to be the [...]
What he is is an old-fashioned American individualist. He may not quite be Starbuck or Face in real life, but he’s got something of those characters in him. During his recent appearance on Celebrity Big Brother, a wildly popular reality-TV show in the U.K., he was greeted by a snotty British punk-rock singer, who announced: [...]
A Hollow Message of Social Justice: Slumdog Millionaire’s Dehumanizing View of India’s Poor by Mitu Sengupta
It is no secret that Slumdog is meant to reflect life in Dharavi, the vast sprawl of slums at the heart of Mumbai. The film depicts Dharavi as a feral wasteland, with little evidence of order, community or compassion. Other [...]
From time to time, it is a good idea to remind yourself what it is that Keynes actually believed, and there’s no better place than his final chapter of The General Theory (http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/keynes/general-theory/ch24.htm), in which he presents his view, at once vitriolic and uncomprehending concerning laissez-faire but politely stepping away from recommending full-scale socialism in [...]
Immokalee is the tomato capital of the United States. Between December and May, as much as 90 percent of the fresh domestic tomatoes we eat come from south Florida, and Immokalee is home to one of the area’s largest communities of farmworkers. According to Douglas Molloy, the chief assistant U.S. attorney based in Fort Myers, [...]
If a church tradition idealizes (idolizes? hopefully not) an “educated clergy” the keepers of that tradition had better be sure to guard the gate from candidates who really aren’t intelligent enough to understand what they are supposed to be talking about. Education in the hands of people who don’t or won’t understand the content of [...]
YouTube – Right.org: Bailout Prize Patrol.
Hat tip: Karen DeCoster
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A Missouri Senate committee rejects legislation banning the use of automated cameras to catch red-light runners.
The cameras automatically snap digital photos of those entering intersections after a traffic signal has turned to red. A color copy of the picture and a ticket is then mailed to the vehicle’s registered owner. About 30 Missouri cities now [...]
Dilbert comic strip for 02/25/2009 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive..
I tried to embed it, but it wouldn’t fit. Click the link. You won’t be sorry. (hat tip: Ron Dodson, C. Graber)
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It is in draft mode at the moment.
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Findings – Politics in the Guise of Pure Science – NYTimes.com.
This editorial takes the place of a rant that was about to break out on this blog. (Listening to the porkaholic, self-worshiping guests on Science Friday on NPR can be aggravating).
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Imagine that nearly everyone is put to work for a month by businesses that build high-priced houses induced by government stimulus. While that is happening, fewer people are employed baking bread. At the end of the month, people try to buy bread and find that there is not enough. Meanwhile, they do not want to [...]
YouTube – Milton Friedman – Greed.
Side note: when I first saw this, I thought Phil Donahue was–in his tone and gestures and hair–a comedian spoofing a liberal.
It is a shame that Friedman couldn’t apply his logic to central banking and fiat money.
Hat Tip: Doug Selph
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This is so helpful that I’m re-posting the entire entry:
The Fed’s monopoly of money has meant not only monopoly (i.e “play” money that lacks fixed value, in contrast to gold), but also actual monopolies in every industry across the board. The reason is that bigger organizations can and do borrow more, paying back only in [...]
We can find some pretty awful things in untechnological “primitive” societies. (I remember vividly as a Christian youth being shown a Moody documentary showing that in many places in the world, the so-called “primitives” were actually the descendants of great advanced civilizations. But let that go for now.) But what you don’t find is a [...]
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