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Your week in Quickies
Aug 06 2009, 21:24 EDT [updated Aug 06 2009, 21:27 EDT]
Machine translation of "Do Not Want" into Japanese
[jackdied]
Aug 06 2009, 21:23 EDT
That site translates a phrase from English
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Break-In at Kelly's Diner
Jul 28 2009, 22:33 EDT [updated Jul 28 2009, 22:35 EDT]
No, this isn't a reposting from last year. The power went out around 9:00pm and by 9:30pm a few guys were spotted walking around the closed Diner (breakfast/lunch only) with crowbars. The whole neighborhood was outside either sitting on their front stoo
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UMass Economic Dept is Great ... if you're into Marxism
Jul 20 2009, 22:27 EDT [updated Jul 20 2009, 22:35 EDT]
Sure, someone has to study this stuff but the UMass graduate course listing is all Marx all the time. Out of 35 listed courses twelve have marx, marxian, or neo-marxian in the short description. The words "classical" and "monetary" combined appear with
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The Ghost of Tom Jones
Jul 20 2009, 00:34 EDT [updated Jul 20 2009, 00:40 EDT]
Tonight, I had the experience of going to a Tom Jones concert at Meadowbrook Pavilion, an open air venue near Laconia. Yes, that Tom Jones. The man is now 69 years old, and came to fame in the sixties!
While tailgating(that's right.), I got a good lo
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Your week in Quickies
Jul 16 2009, 22:13 EDT
Man Fights Off Mountain Lion... With Chain Saw
[bobsalive]
Jul 16 2009, 22:12 EDT
Being a former marine probably helped, but still. Pre
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Government stops providing a service so Private companies start
Jul 15 2009, 17:26 EDT [updated Jul 15 2009, 17:27 EDT]
As a cost-cutting measure the Massachusetts DMV stopped sending expiration notices for driver's licenses. This was a very unpopular move, as you can imagine.
Local banks are stepping into the void. Signs that say "is it your birthday?" are popping up i
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The problem with a politically directed economy is politics
Jul 15 2009, 16:44 EDT [updated Jul 16 2009, 01:57 EDT]
To make GM into a profitable company again requires bringing their overhead down closer to their competition's level. This means cutting car dealerships and renegotiating Union contracts. Bankruptcy would have accomplished both but the Union-friendly ad
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Congressmen are not Philosipher Kings
Jul 13 2009, 00:16 EDT [updated Jul 13 2009, 00:21 EDT]
Rep Grayson (D-Forida) fell for a Ponzi scheme. He is a member of the Financial Services Committee who was taken for millions of dollars in a a financial scam.
Keep in mind non-savants like Grayson vote on bills to spend billions and trillions of your d
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The Low, Low Marketing Costs of Government
Jul 08 2009, 02:59 EDT [updated Jul 08 2009, 04:31 EDT]
An argument in favor of government doing something is that having the private sector do it comes with the extra costs of companies advertising that they do it in the first place. If the government did the exact same thing it could do it without an advert
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Your week in Quickies
Jul 07 2009, 19:14 EDT
Alec Balwdin says he's Alexis de Tocqueville
[jackdied]
Jul 07 2009, 19:14 EDT
.. at least compared to the Governator. This is an odd a
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Palinology
Jul 05 2009, 23:09 EDT [updated Jul 05 2009, 23:12 EDT]
Don't ask me to make sense of Sarah Palin resigning as governor. I haven't read anyone, anywhere that made a reasonable argument why it helps her achieve any future office. The only rational explanation is that she is going the Al Gore route; she has n
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