Monthly Archive: November 2011

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I have been doing some sifting through some old posts from before my time, as we prepare for what I now think of as Project Rufus.  I came upon this post from Erik on...

The ever-interesting Matt Nolan looks at the income of the Us top 1% and suggests some of the change may have been income reporting after tax changes in 1986.  Perhaps Reagan was to blame...

On “fishing“, with various interesting links to discussions.

MSNBC reports “Pelosi fires back at report on ‘insider trading’”. A television report that questioned whether members of Congress are making investment decisions based on insider information drew a heated response from former House...

Responding to the news that, post-OWS, media mentions of income inequality have skyrocketed by nearly 500%, Steve Kornacki says the Occupiers have already won. But victory comes with its own drawbacks: Before the past...

The European debt crisis is still threatening to engulf the world. But have no fear, the technocrats are here! From yesterday’s New York Times: The question now, in both Italy and Greece, is whether...

Before there was Jerry Sandusky, there was half of the UAB Blazers football team. I really wasn’t sure that one would ever be topped.

  Now I know that you’re sitting there deep in your velvet seats and you’re thinking “Uh, he’s up there saying something that he thinks about, but I’ll never have to sing that song.”...

Inevitably meme, enter stage right: Rick Perry’s remarkable meltdown in front of millions of people on national television Wednesday night adds to the growing sense of inevitability for Mitt Romney — if only because...

On January 23rd, 1941, Ory and Ethel (Lettie) Freeland signed the following: “We the undersigned, being the father and mother of Maurice H. Freeland, a minor, an applicant for enlistment in the United States...

My first love, as a kid, was baseball. No, strike that, that’s not quite right. My first love, as a kid, was the Los Angeles Dodgers. I grew up in what was to be...

I found Ryan Bonneville’s post this morning on the horrible events at Penn State to be highly appropriate.  Especially this: I don’t know what the solution is. Taking membership in these institutions with a...