Governance
Politics, policy, and world events
- 15.January, MM
- The NYT hates America
- The New York Times is trashing our troops again. With no new "atrocities" to report from Iraq for many a month, the limping Gray ...
- 07.January, MT
- Voting for Dummies
- If your state's primary is creeping up and you've yet to make up your mind, this handy-dandy "vote by the issue" quiz can ...
- 07.January, MAT
- An Oil-Free Sweden
- While wandering around the internet, I came across this interesting article in "The Guardian" from February 2006. According to the article, it is the ...
Markets
Business, economics, and finance
- 16.January, MM
- France…
- Honestly... I don't even know what to say.
- 09.January, MT
- Economists Heart Howie
- A team of researchers has published preliminary findings about individuals' risk tolerance based on the show Deal or No Deal, which apparently began in ...
- 08.January, MT
- Your Next Financial Advisor, Age 11
- A team of fifth graders won first place in the state-wide Stock Market Simulation in Wisconsin, by doubling their initial "investment" of $100,000 in ...
Humanities
Philosophy, art, and religion
- 10.April, MT
- Neglected Child of Punctuation?
- This is quite possibly my favorite article this year; I love semicolons. The NY Times did a story some time ago on the ...
- 14.December, MT
- Golden Suicides: More Interesting - and Cultured - than Britney/K-Fed Baby Mama Drama
- As some of you know, during my trip to Albuquerque this past weekend, I accidentally left my O'Hare-purchased copy of Vanity Fair in the seatback ...
- 18.October, MM
- NaNoWriMo
- November is National Novel Writing Month. Celebrate with me by participating in NaNoWriMo - a blitzkrieg style approach to writing a novel. The competition begins on November 1st and the goal is to write 50,000 words by month's end.
Science
Research, innovation, and applications
- 08.May, MM
- Motor Racing and the Enviroment
- I've always been quite a fan of Formula 1 motor racing (and not just for the sex scandals). Beyond the entertainment, it looks like ...
- 19.December, ID
- Physics 101 Finally Becomes Interesting
- This is wonderful. I particularly enjoyed the emails that were sent in.
- 04.December, MM
- Apple’s Newest Revision
- Apple's new operating system, Leopard, has been winning wide praise since its release. Still, a few are left wondering if Cupertino's latest is mostly hype.
Society
Culture, media, and behavior
- 16.January, MT
- Sports, Politics, Religion & Violence, Green Bay Packers-Style
- First, in the world of sports intermingling with politics: Guliani has NO hope of winning the primary in Wisconsin (not that our vote will matter ...
- 04.January, ID
- Mountains of Trash Pile up in Naples
- I watch French television, in theory to improve my French, but also because they occasionally discuss gems like this . Evidentially, no one has ...
- 20.December, ID
- Investing in Charity
- This article, also published in the NYT, discusses this non-profit, Givewell. Givewell is focused solely on evaluating the effectiveness of other charities. Founded ...
Miscellany
Personal items and local interest
- 18.December, MM
- Holiday Tipping
- Lately there has been a lot of house talk over holiday tipping. While Gotham indexed, the New York Times provides some insight.
- 13.November, MT
- If you enjoy the fragrance of the rose, you must accept the thorn which it bears
- Looking for a new manly scent for the holidays but sick of just sniffing the little pull-tab things in Neil's copy of Esquire? Then you ...
- 07.November, MJL
- Top Ten Tips for Leopard OS
- Thought this would be helpful to pretty much everyone in HMP but travis, shelly and myself. Especially good for the three new ...
Comments
- ticketgenie.com – Your Source to buy Concert Tickets, Sports Tickets and Theater Tickets: We’ ve seen the...
- BPA: If you REALLY want to look at the credit crunch as it relates to central banking and first-world economies,...
- BPA: I guess you all better watch your backs when I come home!
- MAT: This is the best internet video I have seen in a long, long time. Many thanks for posting this.
- MM: Apparently the feds are promising a solution.
- MAT: Sorry about the broken link. The proposal’s correct link is: http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/ 574/a/67096...
- MAT: It’s probably true that this fellow sweats pretense, but d-bag of the year? That not only seems harsh, but...
- MM: Oh man, I was just logging in to post this. It was also picked up by Marginal Revolution. Good catch ID.
Asides
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Still trying to figure out what the whole subprime mess is about? Maybe these two can help.
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I’ll grant that Boston was a great city as recently as 220 years go.
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I’m glad Ivana’s just a transplant, not one of these native French prostitutes.
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Is this guy not everyone’s hero? Update: How about now? Perhaps not?
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Even though atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to accumulate - it’s up about 4 percent since 1998 - the global mean temperature has remained flat.
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Not with a stripper, but with this guy, because he has no qualms about saying what the rest of us are thinking.
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Extracts
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…and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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If indeed Iran stopped its nuclear-weapons program in 2003, is it a coincidence that this was the same year America made good on its threat of military force against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq?
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It is an illusion of youth that one can attain the universal without becoming anything in particular.
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From the Renaissance onward a synthesis has no longer existed. Men began to discover the discrepancies between the world of sensation and the world of objectivity from which these sensations derived their stimuli. In short, the scientific method, the beginnings of inquiry into the nature of things, had forever disrupted the unity that had existed between the objective world and the imaginative;
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Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once.
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Hotel Mount Pleasant is home to a group of friends living and working together in Washington, D.C. We rarely hold the same views, but share many common interests. This blog records our conversation.