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Daily Archive for July 29th, 2011

Weekend Thought …

As I drive home for the weekend, I cannot help but think: “wow, how incredible is it that we have had all of these new and innovative American automobile start-up companies during my lifetime.”

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These are the same guys that enforce every other “law” – including your precious tax laws, health care laws, environmental laws, and the like.  Be sure to watch the video. Police and government brutality on the streets, in prisons, and god-knows where else is the civil rights issue of our time. Yet it receives scant […]

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Don’t fret folks, I am still plowing my way through the ecology literature. I thought I’d delight you with this short sentiment from Barry Commoner’s The Closing Circle (this quote from p. 37 of the library edition I have): Any major man-made change in a natural system is likely to be detrimental to that system. […]

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You Be the Judge

I really try to do my best to read Progressive blogs and to stay away from getting near anything resembling an ad-hominem. With that in mind, I reprint in full today’s post from Scott Sumner, who is always well worth reading (of course, after reading him you will realize how utterly bad your macro education […]

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When I started here in Rochester, a prime stretch of real estate on the east shore of the Genesee River, walking distance from downtown (where the Blue Cross Arena is, the HQ of the library, the HQ of Blue Cross, Dinosaur BBQ, etc.), this monstrosity (which ran something like 2 or 3 city blocks) was […]

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