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China
Tyler Cowen shares my concerns about China, namely that they can’t take a punch, or in this case, an economic downturn.
If you are not convinced, raise your right hand and repeat after me: “China in the 20th century had two major revolutions, a civil war, a World War, The Great Leap Forward [sic], mass starvation, the Cultural Revolution, arguably the most tyrannical dictator ever and he didn’t even brush his teeth, and now they will go from rags to riches without even a business cycle burp.”
It’s worth reading the whole thing.
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An interesting article
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An interesting article on demographics
While I disagree with him about the value of absolute number in military conflict (that has become increasingly less meaningful over time, particularly in the past 100 years) It’s a very interesting read, and falls into my own general meme that self-selection is the dominant force in our society.
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The world is far stranger than one can imagine
Hannidate – the dating service for fans of Sean Hannity. I think a rain of frogs is next.
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This is scary
And will be making the rounds on the internet soon I would imagine.
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Of minor interest
I’m in danger of receiving my first payment check from Google Adsense for the ads on Jargon Database. I’ve almost cracked the 110,000 page view barrier as well.
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The new venture reaches beta
The Blog Squad. Thoughts anyone?
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Rage
Take
1 stressful week
Add
5 ongoing projects
Mix in
3 last minute projects
Pour Over
2 deadlines
Blend in
1 newly configured (by someone else) server
Sprinkle in
2 foreseeable changes
Garnish with
1 instance of Microsoft Content Mangement ServerAnd you get a newly reached level of anger and frustration. About two hours ago I heard a strange noise and realized that it was me. Growling.
I turned into the Incredible Hulk for about 10 minutes, I really did.
I’m better now.
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Quick round up
- Blogs to Riches – a good article on the major blog players. I’m not mentioned for some reason.
- Signs That the United States is About to Bomb Iran – it’s more of what the signs would be more than an indicator of occurrence.
- Bikers roll to military funerals to oppose anti-gay protests
They call themselves the Patriot Guard Riders, and they are more than 5,000 strong, forming to counter anti-gay protests held by the Rev. Fred Phelps at military funerals.
Phelps believes American deaths in Iraq are divine punishment for a country that he says harbors homosexuals. His protesters carry signs thanking God for so-called IEDs — explosives that are a major killer of soldiers in Iraq.
A good article on some fairly spontaneous action against Phelps and his loathsome cadre. Supposedly their intention is to provoke either the police or the military into assault to they can sue.
- In the footnotes of this post, Jane Galt puts it very well with
My favorite moment in the debates came at the “town hall” style one, where Kerry told a pro-life questioner that while he personally agreed with her that abortion was murder, he couldn’t legislate his morality. Pro-choice readers should substitute the words “lynching” for “abortion” and see if this position would overcome their reluctance to vote for a Dixiecrat
That was what turned me off of Kerry too. At that time I was somewhat open to voting for him. Since the course in Iraq is set, I think the president and congress fighting all the time and getting nothing done would be a wonderful thing. Then he said that.
I would imagine his actual position on abortion is more in the middle, most likely mirroring my own strong disapproval, but that statement lost me forever. My original thought on that debate was a bit different. He prefaced that comment with a statement of his Catholicism. My thought was “that’s like saying you’re a vegetarian that eats veal”. But Jane’s remark was much better.
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Interesting
One way to separate the tech savvy from the non tech savvy I suppose.