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Oh wait, that happens here now too… –from Soviet humor magazine Krokodil, during Glasnost. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Two guys rescue a woman from a burning vehicle, then sue her for damages. At first blush, I want to call these guys jerks & worse, but then I thought about it for a minute.  The resuced woman had acted … Continue reading →

The two articles discussed here (regarding labor costs and employment).

Apple now has more cash then the US Government.

Finishing off the week’s theme What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It … Continue reading →

Thus says Ezra Klein, finally convinced by brinkmanship on the debt ceiling that They Mean It. That’s right Ezra, that whole Tea Party thing? Not a negotiating strategy.Read the last few paragraphs of Klein’s piece to see what I mean. … Continue reading →

I see a lot of back & forth regarding Norway, and how (as I stated before) their culture is relatively peaceful. Many think that this is indicative of the society wearing blinders to the danger of violent radicals, and I … Continue reading →

Kids overcome fear of risk through play.  Make their play too safe, and they don’t learn to assess risk. Makes sense, when I was 12, I climbed up the outside of Parnell Tower (it was only 50′ high back then).  … Continue reading →

At the Valley 6 drive-in with The Wife to see the last Harry Potter (and Green Lantern). Hope your evening is going as well as mine.

Jonah H., commenting to this post: I wrote my dissertation on The Christian Topography by Cosmas Indicopleustes. It’s an obscure manuscript, a cosmology by a former merchant to India who was now a monk. Anyway, aside from procuring me a … Continue reading →