Author Archives: Alaska

Vicious Circle Cycle

Overbearing government leads to corruption: local power players lower or don’t enforce public drinking water standards to attract business and property developers. People stop drinking tap water, and the bottled-water market booms. So the government raises taxes on bottled water … Continue reading

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Inequality Revisited

This is an intriguing analysis: what happened around 1973? Here’s the relevant basic math effect I can all-too-easily imagine many sociologists don’t get. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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Trust Me, He Says

I wouldn’t advise any business to believe any regulator who proposed this kind of deal. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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Embedding This Here

…so I can watch it later after work.

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Briggs-Tabarrok: Not That Staggering

I mean, it’s all about penis envy anyway, right? That’s got to be the only reason anyone would keep their guns in the face of this staggering evidence, you see. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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Got Coin?

I want. We’re really close to that pocketless Star Trek future where your totally functional EDC kit is ridiculously light and thin. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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Utility Ring

Now this is cool. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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I’d Say We’ve Infected Him

Pretty fuckin’ kewl.

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Zamak Valor SNS Pistol

EJ has a very interesting post about, among other things, an interesting pistol. I sure wish we could have gone to the Gunbloggers’ Rendezvous this year. We missed out for certain.

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There But For The Grace of God…

I don’t often feel schadenfreude, but I wonder what the German portmanteau word is for comfort in the misfortunes of others, which I am guessing is the motivation for people to watch all those “reality” shows. I suppose they play … Continue reading

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