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Malcom Gladwell: There is No Absolute Reality
Posted on November 14, 2008Not really, but sort of. Since taste (which is one aspect of perception) is subjective, is there a "true" Spaghetti Sauce? Retailers who make Spaghetti Sauce fail, since people do not want Spaghetti Sauce. They want what they perceive to be spaghetti sauce...
China Buys Gold as Inflationary Hedge
Posted on November 14, 2008China is betting that the United States Dollar will decline in value: The mainland is seriously considering a plan to diversify more of its massive foreign-exchange reserves into gold, a person familiar with the situation told The Standard. Beijing is considering changing its asset allocations during the financial tsunami in order to build up gold reserves "in a big way,"...
Rules, Exceptionalism, and Favortism
Posted on November 14, 2008The New York Police Department's rule preventing it from hiring convicted felons is a good one. Should they grant an exception for a war vet who has paid his debt back to society with interest? Seems like the answer is an easy, Yes. Given New York's history of corruption, how many men like Specialist Osvaldo Hernandez would be hired under...
My Bailout Letter to Congress
Posted on November 13, 2008Dear Congress:I have student loan debt. I dutifully make my payments each month. This needs to change, at least if you want the American economy to survive.You see, I am sending all of this money to banks. They are not loaning any money to anyone. There's a credit freeze...
Media Cannot Be Trusted On Financial Matters: Tom Krisher and Ken Thomas Are Industry Shills
Posted on November 13, 2008There are now billions of dollars up for grabs. Lobbyists are being paid millions to bring these billions to their clients. Lobbyist feed stories to journalists.Journalists are fools on financial matters, as anyone who has read the stories surely knows...
Second Depression Worse Than The First?
Posted on November 13, 2008So says former Goldman Sachs head:The economy faces a slump deeper than the Great Depression and a growing deficit threatens the credit of the United States itself, former Goldman Sachs chairman John Whitehead, said at the Reuters Global Finance Summit on Wednesday...
Are Economists Witch Doctors?
Posted on November 13, 2008Where is $200 a barrel oil? How many other predictions were false? How many forecasts by "experts" were false? False, false, false!Who here knows anything about cold reading? James Randi describes it here. Cold reading works because people don't remember wrong guesses - only right ones...
Liar's Poker Author on the Market Meltdown
Posted on November 12, 2008Micheal Lewis on his first job on Wall Street, and on Wall Street in general: To this day, the willingness of a Wall Street investment bank to pay me hundreds of thousands of dollars to dispense investment advice to grownups remains a mystery to me. I was 24 years old, with no experience of, or particular interest in, guessing which...
Victim Impact Testimony: What Does A Life Look Like?
Posted on November 11, 2008Do see this moving video (via Law.com; story; see warning, below) presented during the sentencing phase in a death-penalty case. It's a lot like the types of presentations plaintiffs lawyers in wrongful death cases present. These always touch me, though I have seen many...
Will Barack Obama End the Cuba Embargo?
Posted on November 10, 2008Cigars and rum? That's change I can believe in. Know what's hilarious? The law making it illegal for me to purchase Cuban rum and cigars is called the Trading With The Enemy [sic] Act. Because Cuba is our enemy? Can you believe the stupidity? Ordering Cuban cigars is pretty easy, due to the Internet...
"Gang Leader for a Day"
Posted on November 10, 2008Looks fascinating: Honest and entertaining, Columbia University professor Venkatesh vividly recounts his seven years following and befriending a Chicago crack-dealing gang in a fascinating look into the complex world of the Windy City's urban poor. As introduced in Steven D...
The Case of the Missing Two Trillion
Posted on November 10, 2008Where did it go? It really is true that you can steal more money with a briefcase than with a gun.
White Trash Parody Blog
Posted on November 10, 2008This blog is genius. Here are her money-saving tips; more here. And, yes, white trash people do view auto accidents as a "jackpot."
Fantastic Storytelling
Posted on November 09, 2008This guy is good. Notice his intonation. His gestures. His use of pauses. Would you want to listen to this man speak? Would you want to listen to the average lawyer speak? You'd think, then, that the study of narrative would be a high priority for every litigator...
Hedge Fund Managers on the Market
Posted on November 09, 2008People who, unlike economists, actually make their living betting on markets, are not optimistic: One said he was sickened by the crisis, while another admitted shock and embarrassment at the severity of the market slump and the losses his firm suffered...
Economists and Chickenhawks
Posted on November 09, 2008This is sobering.What's interesting is that "experts" in the United States keep saying, "That won't happen here." When you ask them, "Why not?" how many have a good answer? Even with all the benefits of hindsight, today's economists don't even know what caused the Great Depression...
Blacks, Prop 8, and Intellectual Consistency
Posted on November 09, 2008Blacks voted overwhelming in support of Proposition 8. They were the only racial group who, beyond the margin of error, voted in favor of discrimination against gays. What does this mean?Does it mean blacks qua blackness are homophobes? Or does it mean that poor people are religious; black people tend to be poor; therefore blacks tend to be religious...
Best Thing on Television
Posted on November 09, 2008Benny Hinn is the lead emcee for this segment of TBN's Praise-A-Thon. Some people watch sports or sitcoms for amusement. There is nothing better on television. Great one-liners: "I'm going to lay hands on your seed!" "The Gospel is free but the means to deliver the Gospel is expensive!" He's about to start lining people up again, to knock them...
"Tips For Clueless People Who Get Mugged"
Posted on November 09, 2008It's probably better to read this before you get mugged.
The Disappearing Male
Posted on November 08, 2008Scientists are finally starting to realize that xenoestrogens, which I have known about and been avoiding for over a decade, are destroying males. Way to not like political correctness get into the way of science.If you're already a male and would like to continue feeling like one, avoid xenoestrogens like the poisons that they are...
The Onion Asks: What is Reality?
Posted on November 08, 2008Read this article (real). Then watch this video (fake - or is it?): Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
Liberal Racism
Posted on November 08, 2008"Barack Obama's winning the election shows that we aren't racist. We love black people. We love them so much that we hate ourselves! But don't you dare let the black kids invade our nice schools."
Blacks and Mormons; Religion's Track Record
Posted on November 07, 2008Most thinking people, when considering whether or not they should listen to somoene, look to that person's track record. Has that person been right (or wrong) before? How wrong was that person? Was the person wrong about a really big issue?Until very recently, Mormons discriminated against blacks...
Interesting Juxtaposition
Posted on November 05, 2008On the night America elected the first black President, over two-thirds of blacks voted to deny gays equal rights. Will blacks get a free pass on their homophobia? After all, no other racial or ethnic group opposed equal rights for gays. Blacks are alone in their dedication to discrimination...
Is There a Constitutional Right to DNA Testing?
Posted on November 04, 2008The Supreme Court will decide, having granted review in a case I blogged about here. I think there will be two competing themes. First, how does the Court get around Heck v. Humphrey? Under Heck v. Humphrey, a state prisoner may not bring a §1983 action challenging "the fact or duration" of his confinement...
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Do parents have the right to NOT turn in a sexual offender?
No. The offender should be turned in regardless of any disability (1), or reason...
Can someone detained in a search w/ warrant, be charged with a crime related to the search if they were not arrested at the time of the search?
The police have fairly wide discretion on when they can make an arrest so long a...
I was a bookkeeper for a recreation center. The Center Director left and a new director took over. I went to work one day and some of my files were missing. I called our computer tech and her restored the files (I had ma
In order for a crime to be established you need to conclusively prove that the D...
If I was detained by citizens unlawfully, and then the police showed up...is everything they charged me with in-admissable?
Probably depends on the law of the state in which you live. Many states allow fo...
If I pay restitution, can I still be charged with a crime?
It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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