October 30, 2008
Category: Uncategorizable
Well, last week I finally did it. I put up an Obama sign in the yard. Not that anyone sees my yard. But now that the Editors of Seed magazine have come out with an endorsement, I may as well...
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October 26, 2008
Category: Armchair Musings
This little (19-second) gem is from Calculated Risk (the other video there, Greenspan and The Simpsons, is good too): That says it all. It is the short version. The longer armchair version is this: All economic activity is composed of...
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October 21, 2008
Category: Chatter
This is one of those things that take a minute to figure out if it is serious, or a parody. Block African witchcraft curses against McCain and Palin NOW! Jim Bramlett Sep 28 2008 04:12PM Dear friends: THIS IS...
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October 20, 2008
Category: Armchair Musings
Carborexia is not a word. Any string that garners only six hits on Google is not a word. But the string appears in the New York Times, so maybe it will be a word soon. Perhaps even by the...
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October 16, 2008
Category: Politics
I'm sure I am not the only one who was underwhelmed by the series of Presidential debates. Here is what the candidates and the moderators forgot......
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Category: Armchair Musings
NASCAR, for the non-TV-watching geeks out there, is an auto racing organization. It operates the second-most popular televised sport in the USA. In May, they were troubled, just a bit, by rising fuel costs. One team, Hendrick Motorsports, said...
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October 15, 2008
Category: Social Commentary
Now we learn that AIG execs just spent $86,000 on a hunting trip. Oct 15th, 2008 | CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A handful of top executives from American International Group Inc. spent thousands of dollars during a recent English hunting trip,...
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Category: Chatter
This one is illustrated. The photos speak for themselves. Source It'll work about as well as the Paulson-Bernanke plan. ...
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October 13, 2008
Category: Chatter
Paul Krugman was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. “It’s been an extremely weird day, but weird in a positive way,” Mr. Krugman said in an interview on his way to a...
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Category: Psychiatry
The Archives of General Psychiatry has an open-access article about bipolar disorder in childhood (Child Bipolar I Disorder). I started to write about that. But then, as often happens, I stumbled upon something else. The LA Times has a consumer-oriented...
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