Did somebody just try to buy the British government? I have come to the absolute conclusion that foundation X [sic] is completely genuine and sincere and that it directly wishes to make the United Kingdom one of the principal points that it will use to disseminate its extraordinarily great wealth into the world at this […]
Category Archives: serious stuff
and yet, the National Post is still worse
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Reinstate Rick Salutin << Murray Dobbin's Blog That the Globe would fire him is indicative of the final stage of the Canadian political and economic elite’s betrayal of the country’s traditions and values. It’s all just business now and anything that isn’t business – certainly anything that questions it’s “natural” dominance – is simply dispensable. […]
So, about the Old Testament
Thursday, September 16, 2010
The Infamous Brad – Christians in the Hand of an Angry God (part 3) And when a group of Pharisees caught an adulterous couple, they figured they had the perfect trap for Jesus. You see, the holiness code very specifically prescribes the death penalty for adultery (Leviticus 20:10). However, Roman law said that only the […]
Yep.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Psychotherapy Brown Bag: Rumination: How just thinking about the problem can make the problem worse
Derivatives
Friday, July 9, 2010
Johann Hari – How Goldman Sachs gambled with the world’s poor – and won There are some smaller explanations that account for some of the price rise, but not all. It’s true the growing demand for biofuels was gobbling up much-needed agricultural land – but that was a gradual process that wouldn’t explain a violent […]
Wait till they get a majority
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Abortion vote ‘inevitable,’ MP says – Toronto Star Meanwhile, the anti-abortion caucus continues to work for that day, with monthly meetings over dinner on Parliament Hill. They fly so far under the radar it’s not clear how they divvy up the cost of their researcher from their parliamentary budgets or even who they count as […]
Truth in economics
Monday, May 10, 2010
John Williams: Believe Him or Not His thesis is both simple and surprisingly complex: over the course of thirty years, Washington politicians have pressured federal economists to tweak the methods by which they assess key metrics of the economy, to inflate the numbers and protect the incumbents from voters who would surely rise up in […]
Patents are bogus: another reason
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
What If The Very Theory That Underlies Why We Need Patents Is Wrong? [The paper] looks at the putative theory that innovation comes from a direct profit motive of a single corporation looking to sell the good in market, and for that to work, the company needs to take the initial invention and get temporary […]
TV
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Clay Shirky: The Collapse of Complex Business Models There are two essential bits of background here. The first is that most TV is made by for-profit companies, and there are two ways to generate a profit: raise revenues above expenses, or cut expenses below revenues. The other is that, for many media business, that second […]
Complain about the government, but it could always be worse…
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Kafka’s Castle is collapsing | openDemocracy The saying «We have been put on earth to make Kafka come true» has been well known since Soviet times. We have been so steeped in absurdity since childhood that we haven’t even learnt to distinguish any of the rules that regulate it. We are on the other side […]
