In relation to a couple of posts ago, about governments paying down debt triggering a depression, take a look at ( Read more... )

In a discussion over here:

http://chapel-of-words.livejournal.com/308075.html

I stated that government spending is all that counts in terms of the availability of goods and services for private consumption and investment.  Taxes and borrowing aren't directly part of the equation.

From wikipedia:

The definition of GDP (Y) is a sum of Consumption (C), ( Read more... )

The rest of this article is mostly crap, but one point he does make is that every major depression in this country has followed a significant repayment of government debt ( Read more... )

A while after I started dancing, I heard about this guy named Frankie Manning.   I got the impression he was older, but didn't know anything about him.  So I looked him up on YouTube.

I find a video, and start watching it.  I could do that move.  That's some solid dancing.  I could probably learn that move.  OK, he's got style, and it will take me a ( Read more... )

While some of the stimulus bill is going to get spent on useless things, this just makes my blood boil:

From http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090211/ap_on_go_co/congress_stimulus

There also was last-minute disagreement about a House proposal that could direct ( Read more... )

We've decided to go to the Shakespeare Tavern for Doctor Faustus on Sunday, January 4th ( Read more... )

Anyone interested in joining us for Dr. Faustus at the Shakespeare Tavern?   Sounds like a VERY cool production.

We might be interested in the 2nd, 3rd or the 4th or possibly the 11th or 18th..  But let us know what works for you..
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So far in the swing dance workshop this weekend, I've danced with people from Macon, New Orleans, Rochester, and somewhere in Minn.

And Halifax and Toronto, Canada; Madrid, Spain; Sweden; and 3 follows from Paris, France.   (There's apparently a group of 5; 4 follows and a lead.)

I had no idea this was getting international attention!

For the amusement of my linguistic friends and parents of young children.

Barenaked Ladies has a version of the Alphabet Song on their new album for kids:

A is for aisle
B is for bdellium
C is for czar
D is for djinn
E for Euphrates
F is for fohn, but not like when I call the ladies
G for Gnarly,
H is for hour
I for irk
J for jalapeno
K is for knick- ( Read more... )

So partytrick now has her MacBook...

Any software that is absoutely essential for us to download (or buy)?

We've got firefox, skype and open office currently.

What's the best IM (AIM) client?    Any other cool add-ons?  (The cat-on-keyboard detector?  :-)