WQ: Massive amounts of money flowed into the United States because the Bush administration produced absurd deficits through an utter lack of discipline and ill-advised tax cuts in a time of war. Then we asked foreign investors and governments to buy our debt to finance our lack of discipline. Thomas Friedman has made a convincing …
You’ll see a new link in the blogroll over on the right to Winthrop Quigley’s blog. Win’s a colleague at the Journal, a business writer who is very much part of my critical brain trust. His desk is the one I wander to first when I have a question about economics, but his range of …
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I’m intrigued to find that Inkstain is the number one hit for “does andys pawn shop have guitars in fairfield”.
It was art: A police report indicates Smith said he was a “special agent with the United States Illuminati, badge number 0931.” His mission? One from “Director Womack,” to “defuse and confiscate a Soviet-made MERV6SS-22AN warhead, with 14.5 kg of enriched uranium and a plutonium trigger, capable of delivering a 40-kiloton yield.” Police say Smith …
One of religion’s longstanding problems is the immutability of scripture – the inevitable struggle over the inability of a fixed text to respond to changing conditions. You can see this as Jews try to keep the Sabbath, and in modern fundementalists’ struggle over shellfish. I was thinking deeply about this issue today on my bike …
No power, no printing presses, but they keep on publishing. There is no more heroic news organization than the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Watching my young friend Kelsey’s feed for the Gustav evacuation order. (So far, so good.) update: evacuation order has been issued.
On DOE’s new “branding” effort.
The giant novelty item to end all giant novelty items: by Florentijn Hofman h/t Kittrick
I recently complained to my boss about the plastic forks he keeps in his desk drawer. I regularly steal them when I forget cutlery for my microwave lunches. But Charlie was getting those really crappy, flimsy forks. Totally unacceptable for eating microwave lunches. Yesterday, I noticed that he had gotten some of those beefy, sturdy …