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The BETTERHO Egg Scissors

We found this in a drawer at Patricia’s house. I’ve never seen anything quite like it before.  

Posted in Cool

H.R.7260 Transparency in the Creation of Wealth Act of 2008

110th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7260 To increase the quality and public accessibility of research by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on the effects of monetary policy on the distribution of wealth in the United

Posted in Hmmmm

Teachers of the common herd

Capital must protect itself in every way…Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily

Posted in Politics and Government

Just Another Day

Posted in News and Events, Politics and Government

Milkmen

When I commuted and I drove the hours before dawn, the radio played all-night new age music, always a piano, overly bright in timbre, with synthesized strings, chimes and nature sounds. I’m not sure why I didn’t turn it off.

Posted in Arts

If this is the greatest, well damn …

McCain’s move: Putting priorities or politics first? – CNN.com: “Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, called McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign the ‘greatest single act of responsibility ever taken by a presidential candidate.”

Posted in Politics and Government

Wall St. Moral Rot: Spreading To Politics, Main St.? : NPR

Wall St. Moral Rot: Spreading To Politics, Main St.? : NPR

Posted in Politics and Government

Video Lectures | Public lectures given at the Institute for Advanced Study

Video Lectures | Public lectures given at the Institute for Advanced Study

Posted in Science

Mob Mentality

There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. – PJ O’Rourke

Posted in Quotable

and then comes the bozo explosion

bozo explosion n. The large number of inept employees that a company ends up with when it hires an incompetent executive, who in turn hires incompetent managers, who then hire incompetent workers. — from wordspy The really scary part of

Posted in Commentary