Yesterday you learned that in space, no one can hear you scream, unless you’re Hello Kitty. Today, or friends at NPR, YES OUR FRIENDS AT NPR posted this at their blog. Hermiting is really working out for the Hermit Kingdom … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, The Holy Father, Pope Francis continues to make headlines, what with the Time Man of the Year award and all. LTC Dan (@LTCDanR) writes: Dear Dr. J., Thoughts? Comments?, LTC Dan Dear LTC Dan, Thank you for writing … Continue reading →
The Holy Father is welcome to join Drs. J. and. Laffer at NACC for Thanksgiving Dinner. We’ll talk macroeconomics. Friend of the Gormogons, Anthropocon writes a fantastic blog piece on Pope Francis’s recent writings. It is definitely worth a good … Continue reading →
In Sunday’s New York Times op-ed section, Steven Greenhouse shared an article on low wages paid to entry level and low skill employees. ‘Puter chose the term “article” rather than “opinion” in the preceding sentence because ‘Puter could not tell … Continue reading →
Long before most of you remember, the Czar predicted that the Next Big Thing to blow up on the Left will be academia. Stiff competition from online schools, skyrocketing tuitions, zero-guarantee job placement, and repeated exposure about how stupid the … Continue reading →
Apologies to the Marines to whom I have great respect*, I’m borrowing their unofficial mantra for this post. Why? Well, I’m more of a science/math nerd than an English major but I thought I’d take a stab at writing a … Continue reading →
Mrs. Dr. J. and the Lil Resident, especially, love shoes. One of the brands popular with the Lil Resident, and a number of the young ladies at the Jedi Academy, the other independent schools in New Atlantis, and New Atlantis … Continue reading →
Lovely smackdown of Occupy socialists and corporatist capitalists. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →For those who say capitalism is dead, check this out. Wall Street is gearing up to trade California’s IOUs. There’s always money to be made. Even picking the bones of the once-proud state of California. 'PuterAlways right, unless he isn’t, … Continue reading →
The New York Times editorial staff today put together this whopper. Apparently, the real reason the economy’s in the crapper is because banks are requiring borrowers to pay their full debts, regardless of how underwater the loan is. That is, … Continue reading →
In ‘Puter’s post below, he posits that the hedge funds struck a blow for capitalism and rule of law in America. ‘Puter tacitly claims that the Obama Administration is concerned primarily with nationalizing our economy. But if you don’t believe … Continue reading →
I was doing a little light reading and came across this little factoid: India and China each have about a billion people, taken together accounting for about 40% of the world’s population. In the past 20 years about a half … Continue reading →
‘Puter’s not particularly smart. Or handsome, either, for that matter. But it seems to ‘Puter, sitting smack in the middle of this financial crisis, that America hasn’t given capitalism a chance to work yet. Capitalism assumes that there will be … Continue reading →
