The One-Handed Economist

Sic Semper Tyrannis

Archive for July, 2006

Oh My…

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Thanks Google!

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I Love Pork, But Not In Government

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Via TheBlogfather comes news about 435 Blogs in 435 Districts. Now, I’m a big fan of the Porkbuster’s project, although I do think it is doomed to the sort of failure and mainstream irrelevance that one can ususally only count on from the leftosphere. That said, I think this is a worthwhile endevour.
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I’ve been thinking a lot the past few weeks about College. Not so much the drunken memories of bad ideas from yesteryear, but rather about the sort of violence problems inherent in the system. There’s a lot sort of wrong with higher education in this country, but having a rather small sample I […]

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Updating

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

I am currently upgrading to Wordpress because, although I bought MT a year and a half ago, I don’t really like it. Archive will be available after I import it all. Carry On.

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Runner’s Woes

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Back in the before time, that is before I went to college and got lazy, I did a lot of running. I missed state in Cross Country by less than two seconds, twice, because in my league around Portland a 16:29 5k just wasn’t fast enough to get you there. I didn’t exactly […]

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230 Years Ago: Americans Were Braver

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and […]

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