All right, I don't really want to talk about politics here and I hope not to make any more posts about politics (and I'll probably f-lock this one eventually), but I'll just make this post because I thought a couple of you might find it interesting ( Read more... )

I have been a fan of Elizabeth Warren since reading The Two-Income Trap, which significantly changed the way I thought about practical economics. In brief: if everyone's income goes up by a factor of 2, this does not make, say, houses cheaper. Because now everyone can bid up the prices of houses to two times what they could before, housing prices ( Read more... )

Parents-in-law just finished up a visit. I clearly absolutely won the parents-in-law lottery.

In other news, ( Rambles on Blink, snap reactions, Prop 8 tactics, and Gottman's marriage/divorce studies )

Okay, I promised myself one politics post before Tuesday. I promise this will be followed by talk of books ( Read more... )

Yeah, so, if we must talk about the bailout, my feelings about it are best summed up hereAnyway. Back to random ramblings ( Read more... )

I haven't been ignoring this, and I've thought a good deal about it this week; but I don't feel very comfortable posting about it.

( So, even more incoherent than usual )

As part of the great rereading orgy I had over Christmas (including all of the John M. Ford books I've been missing since his death, and some old Star Trek cuddly favorites) I reread Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card. Wow. I had forgotten how much I love this book. It's one of my favorites ( Read more... )

So one of the things that having a fancified wedding did for me was make me think more about why gay marriage is desired ( Read more... )