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Keeping the blog alive….
Sorry, I’ve been busy lately. Here is a random assortment
- Velvet Underground on YouTube
- Justice, War, Etc from David Friedman
- Interesting article about Crime in Atlanta
- A nice profile about a former client of mine.
- The Agitator puts it very well with “we’ve reached the point where even jaded libertarian cliches present an inaccurately optimistic picture of what’s going on”
- A very good explanatory video by Tim Hartford.
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Yet another belated tab clearing post
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Sparse posting and random thoughts
Sorry for the lack of posts recently, a happy development has taken up a my free time.
And the random thought – Obama’s new “Smarter government, somehow!” push could serve to keep the nags, parasites, and do-gooders busy and let creative people create things, instead of having them filter into the general population as seems to have been the case over the past several years.
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An interesting thought
Via Megan McArdle – I’m not for this, but it would solve the problem.
My lunatic proposal for the day: why not make it easier to move homeowners out of homes they can’t afford? Set up a streamlined foreclosure proceeding where a current or mildly delinquent homeowner can simply give the house to the bank and walk away. Do this with two legal provisos:
1. No tax on the forgiven loan
2. No black mark on the credit record. The bank marks the loan as fully satisfied.
Of course, if we decide to actually “fix” the problem we should loosen immigration and get people actually in the vacant houses.
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Skank vs Skank
These two are awesome. Not safe for work
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Jargon Database in the google rankings
I just went and checked Google Analytics for one of my sites, JargonDatabase.com – and much to my surprise, I rank #1 for
and many others, and #2 for
And many others. Wow.
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Line of the day
Via Megan McArdle “History may not repeat itself, but it stutters like hell.”
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The funniest thing I read today
Was this Construction signs warn of zombies – via Scarbrough via Facebook.
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Swooning, raptures and Barack Jong Il
CNN headline – “Cheers greet Obamas on parade route”
What is this, North Korea? It’s like the fans of Survivor, American Idol and Sean Hannity all got together and gave each other Eskimo kisses.
I stand by my Bush III/IPod comparison – now more than ever.
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The table goes to table heaven
Where it will listen to different music I’m sure. I finally finished it today after about ten weeks of slow construction – I’ve been finishing it for the past 3 weeks in fact.
The majority of the time was spent creating and joining all of the pieces of the top together (about 50 or so). You can’t quite tell in the below photos but the top is all end grain oak, cherry and walnut. The stain melds the colors a bit.
