LegalXXX asks: Ok, if: (1) Politics is like showbusiness for ugly people; and (2) Showbusiness is like politics for stupid people; What is blogging? It’s Quantum politics. Which, of course, has almost nothing to do with Chris’s post, except that after reading his post the thought popped into my head. My brief layman’s understanding includes […]

I used to have Google Adsense ads in the header of this blog like this one: I replaced those with the ads above and thought I’d share why. Aside from the fact that they don’t seem to be working at the moment. First for the weak-stomached among you, I am a capitalist and those ads […]

We have new tax proposals running out our ears – let’s tax the politicians instead.

I heard this PSA on the radio the other day during a talk radio show and thought it was a parody.

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution has been pondering the question of why America has inferior raw ingredients for cooking compared even to developing countries. He had a list of reasons of which number 3 (efficient transportation) and number 4 (efficient large scale agriculture) are instructive. The American market has made the (I’d say rational) choice […]

Check out the Social Security calculator from the Heritage Foundation and see how much you are losing by not having your money invested privately. I was surprised – I was able to get my Social Security return above 4%….if I extended my life expectancy to 115. Link from The Flybottle.