I don't know what the hell bizarro universe I woke up in today, but I kinda like it. Democrats proposing tax cuts? In my Congress? It's more likely than you think...

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Don't miss the money shot at 5:11 -- "particularly when we're using a Chinese credit card to pay for it all." Boo yah.

This should go without saying, but I'll say it anyway -- call ( Read more... )

Although I occasionally like to cook tremendously complicated things that take copious amounts of prep time, my time is at a premium these days. However, since the thing that has my time at a premium is the spring paper season, I'm being more budget-conscious, which means cooking rather than ordering takeout. I'm rather pleased with how tonight's ( Read more... )

Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, recommended by shabda and available free on the web from the University of Virginia.

On that note, what's a good serious economic analysis of post-scarcity systems? This reading list is rather long, but also dates to 2000, and a lot has happened between then and now. Soddy's Wealth, Virtual ( Read more... )

By way of ernunnos, the dollar is now the currency of choice for carry trades.

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It's been a busy week for comments over here at Radio Free Meredith, and there have been some exciting discussions going on. I'd like to break yet another comment thread out into a post of its own: heron61 and I got to talking about some freedom-of-speech stuff, which you can go read if you want to, and I'm going to continue that discussion here ( Read more... )

Worth exactly what you paid for it, so hey, if I piss you off, all you wasted was your time.

Anyway. I recently read some discussion in a trans* community about the following excerpt from an HRC newsletter:Getting the truth in front of the American public is no small undertaking. Extremist groups are not only attacking equal rights we've already ( Read more... )

I am not the world's biggest fan of Hugo Chavez, but sometimes, the dude comes up with some really good ideas. I don't agree with his blanket-condemnation sentiments about capitalism -- they make more sense interpreted as a slam against mercantilism, the belief that a nation's power depends on its supply of capital -- but bartering goods and ( Read more... )

Several folks took me to task for the "stuff like highway funding" remark in my last post, so I decided to do a little digging and find some real numbers about how federal expenditures by state break down. Conveniently, the US Census Bureau produces an annual report, Federal Aid to States, which covers all this stuff and explains it with lots of ( Read more... )