Monthly Archives: August 2009

Michael Moore Is Not Talking About Capitalism

Here’s a trailer for Michael Moore’s new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story. This guy’s occasionally pissed about the same things that I’m pissed about. This one looks like it might actually be good, save one small but critical error: he’s not talking about capitalism. The premise of the movie (call it a documentary if you [...]

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The Fallacy of Intellectual Property

I just read a great article by Daniel Krawisz, making a case against intellectual property. Read the whole thing here. Intellectual property has always given me a weird feeling. It seemed to me that something was wrong there, but I could never figure it out. This article got me to look at it from a [...]

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Miss Information

An entertaining NYT op-ed on health care published a few weeks ago. My favorite line: [I]f you currently have decent health insurance, thank the government. Thanks, government! More accurately, if your coverage and care are shitty or don’t exist, thank your fellow citizens (the government) for enforcing monopolies, regulating the competition into bankruptcy, and screwing [...]

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Whisky Boycott?

Noooo! Sure, it was a shitty thing to do, but it was just the one judge. You think he represents all of Scotland any more than Sotomayor represents all of America? You think a single distillery had anything to do with this? Find a way to express your distaste, but please, not the scotch.

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So Great Is the Number of Fools

Galileo wrote the following in a letter to Kepler. I have been for many years an adherent of the Copernican system, and it explains to me the causes of many of the appearances of nature which are quite unintelligible on the commonly accepted hypothesis. I have collected many arguments for the purpose of refuting the [...]

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Cash for Clunkers Banner

The Honda dealership down the street from my workplace has a giant banner over the lot proclaiming “Official Cash for Clunkers Approved Dealership”. It’s been there for at least a week. The Toyota dealership across the street has no such banner. I don’t know whether they’ve applied or been approved or whey they don’t have [...]

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Support Whole Foods

So you read Whole Foods CEO’s WSJ column? Now think about who his customers are. And look at this bullshit. Mackey knew exactly what his customers would think of his reasoning. (They don’t see it as reasoning. They see it as partisan opinion.) Something propelled him to choose to publish it anyway. Some self-interest. And [...]

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Whole Foods Health Care

John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, got his opinion on necessary health care changes published in the Wall Street Urinal today. It’s on page A15. Not exactly prominent, but it’s great to see some media coverage of less intrusive alternatives Bobama’s cockamamie pet projects. Excerpts: Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible [...]

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Violation of Federal Law

The aerosol can in the company bathroom states on the back that it’s a violation of federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling. The operating instructions are to spray for one second toward the center of a normal-sized room. What if I spray for two seconds? Is that inconsistent [...]

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Cal State’s Budget Cuts

Here’s a peculiar way to scale back a budget. Back in February, I applied for entrance to a music program at San Diego State University for fall 2009. Didn’t pass the audition. So I made arrangements to try again this fall for spring 2010 enrollment. Not until I called them a few months ago did [...]

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