Jacques Barzun: the Cheerful Pessimist
With the death of Jacques Barzun passes away a paragon of human intellect and a great friend of America. His oft-quoted line “Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better...
Daily Archive: November 2, 2012
Everybody does this when they get a webcam
Or so it is that I am saying to myself. (Youtube video behind the cut.)
Angry for Paradise
“This is the kind of thing New Jerseyans are built for – we’re plenty tough and now we have a little more reason to be angry after this. Just what we need in New...
Friday Afternoon Jukebox: Amiga!
For you youngsters, this will be a look at computer graphics from an antiquated era. Sort of an “awww, cute, old computer graphics!” But in the mid-90’s? On a personal desktop? This stuff was...
Trade Sequence Part 1 – Introductions and Definitions
So, I thought it might be interesting to do a post on trade theory, to give an economist’s perspective on international trade. Yesterday I realised I’d hit 4 pages and I wasn’t even finished yet. Since...
Four More Years, With Head Held High
Four years ago, between the summer of 2008 and the spring of 2009, about 30% of my clients went out of business. Most of these clients were directly or indirectly related to the commercial...
An Emerging Staten Island Narrative
Staten Island is getting upset. Staten Island is a borough that has an uneasy relationship with the rest of New York City’s boroughs under the best of circumstances. It has felt treated like a...
Mystery on the Bounty
From the Star Tribune: The tall ship began to die early Monday morning in the hurricane-ravaged waters off the North Carolina coast. One of the HMS Bounty’s generators failed. Water flooded everywhere. The 180-foot-long,...
