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Economist Urged Using Wealth for Social Needs ( Read more... )

Last weekend I took a trip up to Seattle to visit with the usual crowd of Robert, Heather, Jessica, and Chris. Loren Thor was also in the City and it was a pleasure seeing him without warning and being introduced to his girlfriend Tegan. Friday night, a group of us went to see a concert of works by the modernist composer George Crumb, which was ( Read more... )

I’ve been hearing a lot of collective moaning is past few days about going back to school. That’s funny to me since for the most part, I am glad to be back. I could wring my hands about taking more classes at a school I was supposedly done with, but that would be unnecessary. The fact is that every credit I spend at community college will mean one ( Read more... )

An unqualified belief in anything, except the likelihood of being wrong, is a certain predictor of tears ahead.

Generation Debt ( Read more... )

I was just informed by my landlord that Carl, Tucker, and I have to move out of our house by the end of next month.

I am so tired of being fucked over.

One aspect of industrialization that many people fail to appreciate is the immense increase in productivity in the past two hundred years. Clothing is a good example of this. Before weaving and sewing were industrialized, most people owned less than three changes of clothes at any one time. These clothes were expected to last for years, much longer ( Read more... )

For those of you not lucky enough to witness my feat of Sushi-eating for the Sushi Land plate champion contest, I have written down a plate by plate account of it ( Read more... )

...Their rebellion was felt to be an especially potent threat to capitalism, which relied upon an army of docile, pacified workers, willing to submit themselves to the soul-destroying discipline of the machine. And yet "the system" seemed to take this form of rebellion in stride. This lack of discernable impact presented a serious threat to the ( Read more... )