Category Archives: Weekend Reader
Dependence Day: the Sunday Not-So-Funnies
When you spend more than you make you go into debt. Congress has been spending more than Americans make for 25 years now, spending on foolish entitlements for the sole purpose of staying in office. They have taken your money … Continue reading
Baraku Obamasawa versus Crudezilla! Aiiiieeeee!
Crudezilla, King of All Spills (1954) In the dark, storm-tossed Sea of Japan, workers in helmets and jumpsuits wrestle a drilling rig on a lonely oil platform. NARRATOR This is the sea. Beneath its depths lies a fantastic secret world … Continue reading
Liberal Arts Majors and the Adults Who Lie To Them
All you freshly minted Liberal Arts majors with degrees in such in-demand fields as Fourteenth Century French Literature – nobody cares about your steenkin’ degree! This 30 minute podcast from Numbnuts Progessive Radio features recent grads calling in with the … Continue reading
The South, Texas & the end of the American Idyll
About eight weeks ago economist and commentator Walter Williams, a man I respect most highly for his constant clarity and vision, wrote this. I don’t usually publish other’s work in toto but this is just too damn good to abridge. … Continue reading
pRaising Arizona
~ the joys of literacy… Associated Press, May 2nd – Owners of the [Vermont] dairy farm were told last week that if they won’t sell the hayfield for $39,500, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will use eminent domain to … Continue reading
Elections: Sparta, Stalin & the First Undocumented President
Confession: I didn’t vote in the last Presidential election. Faced with a choice between a senile liberal guilty of engineering passage of a bill restraining First Amendment Rights (McCain-Feingold), and an avowed Marxist, and possibly undocumented alien President who has … Continue reading
Financial Reform, Dog Weddings & The Death of Keynesian Economics
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. John Maynard Keynes Spent the past … Continue reading
Luxuries
Today I was fortunate enough to tour the Biltmore House in Asheville NC. Completed in 1895, this magnificent edifice had every luxury available to man at the end of the nineteenth century. Vanderbilt even had electric lights, running on a … Continue reading
Letters From Oz ~ Saturday Morning Storms & the Decline of Western Civilization
On May 1, 2010, at 3:34 AM, [my sister in Oz] wrote: I would like to just look at an iPad. There may still be none in Aussie. When I update it will certainly be to something more compact than … Continue reading