Honestly there is little useful anyone can do with a humanities degree, BA, MA, or PHD except teach the same stuff you learned to other fools.
That being said a society that has so little respect for abstract learning and so little wealth that they can’t create some jobs for these degrees is a poor in [...]
Krugamn. Health Care Now.
Preach it Bro. Preach it.
From USA Today.
I’d buy this. Most people who work and strive only commit minor crimes stuff like drug possession, simple assault, DUI, minor gun violations, and occasional theft, mostly of the petty sort.
If its true it going to be a tough nut to crack, Gangs recruit and even breed new members, aren’t centrally directed like [...]
This cranky editorial extolling the virtues of vouchers as stimulous though is spot on. Rather than trying to preserve the status quo and drop up campaign contributors , err I mean important institutions , it might be better to simply give people vouchers. I’d rather give cash so people can save it when needed but [...]
A pro consumption rant from the BBC.
I’d like to ask the folks out there, whats wrong with having less and working less? I can always get more stuff later or get it cheap (yay $1 Book Store and Friends of the Library) but until someone comes up with a cure for aging [...]
To give credit where credit is do Indigo on America Blog relayed this stor .In my mind this applies very much to the idiots like Bernard Madoff that got us into this mess.
Kurt Vonnegut and Saul Bellow were at a convention years ago where a major entrepreneur was the speaker.
“You know,” Kurt said [...]
Prosper’s Law of Bureaucracy states a bureaucracy is an institution designed to resist change at any cost.
Keep that law in mind when you go trying to fix screwed up situations. Any change will be resisted all out.
Also keep in mind this isn’t always a bad thing. Not all change is good.
from my post here
The stimulous may be a “last ditch” effort but its no more likely to work than monetary policy. While the infrastructure spending is much overdo and quite welcome the rest of the effort is just a wasteful continuation of the current failing system.
It would have been cheaper and more effective to cut [...]
Here.
Actually its a a bill to require cell phone cameras to click when used. Its allegedly to protect
people from “upskirt” predators and the like but the real effect is what mor elike what I called it
Since the government of a free country can apparently spy on its citizens with street cams [...]
This article on the IHT discussing the much overdo global move to social democracy made a particularly interesting point about China
In China, where the demise of the American market has brought to light the perils of excessive savings at home, the government has not only recently proposed a big Keynesian-style stimulus program but has [...]