The simple plain truth of the matter is that the Keynesian Model was proven tragically right, again. There had been a chance in 2009 to not only restore a reasonable regulatory model for a sound financial system that would have heralded the return of the prudent man theory to banking and economics, but would have provided the reasoned approach to ( Read more... )

I had a lovely depressing chat with a CowOrker who grew up in the UK, and who's visions of the wonders of the Thatcher years are free from the unpleasantry of thinking about the complications that comes about as one transitions from the Age of Empire, to the time when the US can yank Anglo-French policy in the Suez by clarifying who has the nuclear ( Read more... )

There are several problems I have with Our Founding Confusion: What the Boston Tea Party tells us about today’s Tea Partiers. by Mark Gimein. The first part of the madness of course is that I thot everyone knew that the Tea Party was a slap in the face to blindly simplistic Free Marketeering, since of course the cost of getting the Tea shipped ( Read more... )

Hey kids, remember those Great Dean Martin films about Matt Helms?

You know that freak show where Dino does spoofing his own image as a part of the insanity of the early sixties. Which is a part of the process, since we need to recallLike Sinatra, he could not read music, but he recorded more than 100 albums and 600 songs. His signature tune, " ( Read more... )

Mad props to tongodeon for his best effort in In which I prove that God does not exist, but I am not sure this is what would pass as a proof, nor that it is addressing the relevant issue ( Read more... )

Yes happy Kampfr's, as a bond new drewing a line, I look forward to seeing AZ step in and mandate that Numbers are Numerical! A hard won third option, given the really strong commitment to both the "numbers are numerological" and "number theory is just a theory" crew.

I wander this way since I find it interesting that the NYT opted to opt in with ( Read more... )

I was rudely interrupted by a robo call from USAA, which use to be limited to those who had actually served in the US military. But just like GEICO - Government Employee Insurance Corporation - once was about providing services to members of the Evil Liberal Welfare State so called employee's, times change ( Read more... )

I hate to keep harping on this question, but one really does have to wonder. Why would we want to say that we are any more at war now than we had been under dubya or clinton, or even reagan for that matter ( Read more... )

My evil friend ver offered me Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens. What I find most useful for me in the article is concern about how much reasoning, experimentation, et al, are we abandoning as we play on the interGoogles?

Given that my lunch time, read a few more pages, book is The Science of Liberty I am as concerned with the decay in this new 'holy ( Read more... )

It was amusing, to say the least, that the recent discussions coming out of the south is that there is no clear and compelling reason to note slavery as a part of the confederacy month, since now, majikally, and for no apparent reason we are suppose to believe that slavery is bad.

One has to wonder do we still recognize the missouri compromise. ( Read more... )