News?

I know that there have been newsroom cuts, layoffs, buyouts and other things at the Boston Globe.  The changing business of news has affected many newspapers in this way.  What saddens me is that instead of the remaining staff focusing on putting out good, quality news stories, they are pressed into things like blogging about [...]

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Poking Fun at Wall Street

Admired as heroes are the musician who played on the deck of the Titanic as the ship sank.  Calmed the passengers and crew as they faced a terrible fate.  Imagine a comedian in their place.  Could you have been a jokester as it happened?  Kudos then to Kappa Beta Phi, the Wall Street Fraternity for [...]

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Adventures in Soap

I don’t know what possessed me.  Things have been maddeningly busy this fall/winter and yet I decided to make soap.  Normally, I would now write, “And I am an idiot.”  However, I have discovered that making soap is not difficult, basic instructions can be found online, and good supplies are not terribly expensive (and reusable!).  [...]

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The Real Cause of Global Warming? The Sun.

The Army Research Office, bless their hearts, has released a study that blames global warming on the sun.  Neat.  (My tax dollars paid for this?) In case you wondered, the Sun is the object that warms and cools the Earth, so I guess it is ultimately responsible for warming.
Way more commentary on Wired’s National Security [...]

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Let slip the dogs of kvetch

Will Wilkinson of the Cato Institute had a wonderfully fun commentary on our current non-recession today on Marketplace Morning Report. It’s short and entirely worth a read or listen.
“With a real recession, we could blame somebody…”

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