I write a lot of overblown junk, but it's a reaction to the various stuff that gets thrown at me.  I'm willing to approach This Thing of Ours from all kinds of different angles, and I have.  My ideas evolve when they hit something that unlocks them, etc etc ( Read more... )

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"For all the superficial parallels that can be drawn between Mssrs. Putin and Bush, they made an oddly matched pair during their February 24 meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia. After all, it could be said, one of them heads an increasingly authoritarian and lawless government that is pursuing a radical vision of global revolution rooted in the ( Read more... )

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The Real Dow Jones Average

Stock Market Meltdown

Already the big investment banks are taking on water. Merrill Lynch has fallen 22% since the start of the year. Citigroup is down 16% and Lehman Bros Holdings has dropped 22%. According to Bloomberg News: “The highest level of defaults in 10 years on subprime mortgages and a $33 billion pileup of unsold bonds and loans for ( Read more... )

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this is great.

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now I'm certainly no constitutionalist, but this is a nice aristotelian/lockean smack down here.

if any of you use SQL Server, I wrote a handy little script that will optimize your DB
just run it from osql with the -d option

here's the file

if you'd prefer to copy and paste the sql yourself here's it is below the cut:
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What Really Matters
- John Taylor Gatto

"In 1776 a full 90 percent of Americans not in slavery shaped their own work, they had independent livelihoods, and in 1840, despite the rise of industrialization the figure was still 80 percent. It was hard then for any man to get rich on the labors of others because there wasn't much free-floating labor to ( Read more... )

The Real Story of Money

This guy says it so directly and simply. Really great.

On a related note:
Asshole (the Drinking Game)