The One-Handed Economist

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Archive for August, 2005

I’ve flown dozens, if not hundreds of times during my life. Just in the last four years I’ve been on somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 round-trip flights. Since January, including my current trip, I’ve been on four. By the end of the year, it’ll be at least five or six. […]

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The Principle Of The Thing

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

One thing that’s always given me fits in life, one thing of many, is that so many people have a difficult time extending examples into processes by which they can solve other, similar problems. Sort of like that kid in your algebra class in junior high who, no matter what, couldn’t understand that solving […]

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Beutler Is A Name Dropper

Saturday, August 20th, 2005

William Beutler: So, I just got off the phone with Glenn Reynolds.
Me: Yeah?
Bill: Talked to him for about a half an hour.
Me: He pretty personable?
Bill: Oh yeah. Very friendly guy. Had to change phones at the start, because it would be easier to talk without Jimmy Neutron in the background.
So there you have it, […]

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Where Has The Economist Gone?

Friday, August 19th, 2005

Not away, but my lovely girlfriend is in town for the week. Thusly, my blogging is not really happening. Like I update or you read anyway. I can see my traffic, thanks 30 fans!

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I Don’t Even Live In New York

Monday, August 8th, 2005

Go to hell, Spitzer. Go. To. Hell.
There’s a goddamn difference between, I dunno, beating your spouse/girlfriend and a couple of co-eds slapping each other for cash. If you’re too goddamn stupid to see that, well, don’t go fining radio stations. Some DJs, appealing to the lowest-common-denominator, try to give away […]

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Hello Darkness, My Old Friend

Sunday, August 7th, 2005

A few days after posting her personal bleg, JMPP posted an explanation about her no-religion policy. Now, as I said in comments over there, I think she’s painting with far too wide a brush: because not all religionists are weird nutters who’ll try to convert you. Full disclosure: my girlfriend is a believer, […]

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