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Thursday, October 9th, 2008

I’m not an economist or a trader, but I play one on the Internet.  As a result, I’d like to give you my predictions for the market and share my long term investment strategy.
First, I am currently heavily invested in canned goods, firearms, ammunition, and gold - with extremely fortified positions in remote land and [...]

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    Craziness, Surviving the Apocalypse, The Economy | No Comments »

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

On the same day that the Obama defenders are rallying to his side and suggesting that years of working alongside a domestic terrorist don’t make Obama a bad person, the left is also trying to attach the actions of random crowd members at a rally to McCain-Palin.
Now, I’ll first repeat my firmly held position that [...]

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    Barack Obama, Candidates, Craziness, Democrats, Elections, John McCain, Political Parties, Politics, Republicans, Terrorism, War | 4 Comments »

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Let’s be clear about one thing.  The economic disaster we find ourselves in is not entirely the making of Wall Street.  For the Democrats in the audience, it is not entirely the fault of Republicans.  For the Republicans in the audience, this is not entirely the fault of Democrats.  This is, to put it plainly, [...]

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    Business, Congress, Craziness, Crime, Democrats, Government, How Not To Sell, Legislation, Republicans, Society, Stuck On Stupid, The Economy, The Law, Waste | No Comments »

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

One thing I really dig about Twitter is the fascinating links people share.  Today I got into a discussion with Kevin McCann about a snippet from this TED talk on moral foundations and the difference between liberals and conservatives.
Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.
The speaker’s point was we live out our collective [...]

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    Democrats, Hunting, Libertarians, Miscellany, Political Parties, Religion, Republicans, Sex, Society, Sports, Twitter | No Comments »

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Anil Dash from SixApart is discussing the ways and reasons people use the web.  He glossed over a point that I think is really the key idea of the web, and social media generally.  While discussing the idea of collaborating with people around the world, he commented that the web connects us with people who [...]

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    Bloggers, Society, Technology, The Internet | No Comments »

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