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Good things to know about the workplace

Posted on July 12, 2007
Guy Kawasaki has an excellent post with the top 12 things he wished he had learned before graduating from college. My experience is that there are quite a few people well into their careers who still have not learned some of these lessons, such as how to write a five sentence email ("All you should do is explain who you are, what you want, why you should get it, and when you need it by...

Iowans for Tax Relief: Ron Paul not "Credible"

Posted on June 21, 2007
According to a press release from Iowans for Tax Relief, they invited all "credible Democrat and Republican Presidential candidates" to speak at the candidate forum on June 30, 2007. However, the Free Liberal confirms that Ron Paul was not invited.Iowans for Tax Relief will not allow Dr...

Results Oriented Thinking in the War on Terror

Posted on June 13, 2007
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr works himself into knots in two convoluted posts about the al-Marri case (4th Circuit rules that Qatari student living in the U.S. can't be held indefinitely as an "enemy combatant"). Prof. Kerr trots out a hypothetical familiar to anyone who has studied Criminal Procedure generally and the 4th Amendment exclusionary rule in particular...

Kenyan Economics Expert: "Stop the Foreign Aid!"

Posted on June 07, 2007
Spiegel International has an interview with Kenyan economics expert James Shikwati about foreign aid. They seem shocked that his main plea is for foreign governments to stop sending aid.SPIEGEL:Mr. Shikwati, the G8 summit at Gleneagles is about to beef up the development aid for Africa...

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What is Atheism?

Posted on June 04, 2007
There's a common misunderstanding when talking about atheism that has reared its ugly head in the stoic philosophy forum I participate in. This post seeks to identify the problem and work toward greater understanding between those who believe and those who do not...

Bostonians: Still Stupid

Posted on May 31, 2007
No, it's not blinky cartoon characters this time, it's a garbled fax from marketing.In a scene reminiscent of the Cartoon Network bomb scare that paralyzed the Boston area in January, police shut down a strip mall yesterday in this small western suburb after employees at a Bank of America branch mistook a botched fax for a bomb threat...

Congress Buys Pork with Soldiers' Lives

Posted on May 25, 2007
Yesterday afternoon, right before they went on vacation, your 110th Congress (including the Maryland Senate delegation) decided to go against the wishes of almost 3/4 of the American people and give in to the President to pass a no-strings-attached war funding bill...

Games and Poems

Posted on May 15, 2007
Bruce Godfrey tipped me off to a nice blog post about the five games you need to play to live well. It's a good post, and worth the read. In the section on gambling, there was a snippet from Rudyard Kipling's poem, If:If you can make one heap of all your winningsAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breathe a word about your loss;You really should read the whole poem; it's a wonderful litany of what it means to be a man and worth reading periodically to focus one's endeavors...

Rep. Wayne Gilchrest on the War

Posted on May 08, 2007
Reason has an excellent interview with Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) in which he talks about the GOP, the war in Iraq, and what history can teach us.The whole thing is excellent, but I especially enjoyed the stoic overtones in his final answer:Reason: You don't worry about another primary challenge from a Republican who thinks this war has to be won or those issues are important?WG: I don't worry about a primary challenge...

Gun Control on the Way to the Supreme Court

Posted on May 08, 2007
The D.C. Circuit has denied a petition for en banc rehearing of Parker v. D.C., so the way is clear for the Supreme Court to hear the case. Analysis of the denial and the likely timeline for Supreme Court review.Interesting article about how liberal law professors have been instrumental in shifting the gun control debate in this country.

Interhash 2006 Photos

Posted on April 18, 2007
I went to the World Interhash in Chiang Mai, Thailand last October. Over 6000 hashers from around the world in one place with unlimited beer and official sanction from the Thai government. Imagine the insanity, if you dare. There's an album of pictures from my trip up here: InterhashThailand2006As usual, I didn't take enough pictures and few of them include me, but there's some nice shots...

Prodigy + Apache = Video Mashup Madness

Posted on April 18, 2007
So freaking awesome!

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