“Arlen? It’s Bernie. Tell Zora to get in here. Now. It’s not a drill.” I remember it every fall. It was a lazy Saturday morning. I hadn’t planned on getting up yet, but the phone call worked faster than a cold shower. I passed the message to my wife. It seemed no time at all […]
We’ve moved, and this is to declare the new site open! For too long I freeloaded on what was supposed to be an educational tool, and the irony of a site whoose purpose is (among other things) the study/discussion of Good/Evil breaking the rules I agreed to when I joined the site finally got to […]
I don’t like books “exposing” flaws in The DaVinci Code, if for no other reason than they display a lack of sportsmanship. Finding errors in that book is like fishing at a trout farm; the only real question is how many minutes will it take to catch one. That having been said, I’d like to […]
Get thee over to the TPM Cafe and read The Stagnation Tax by Sterling Newberry. The man knows what he’s writing about, and more importantly can explain it in terms the rest of us can understand. Yes, there are the usual sound bytes one can excerpt to support one’s preconceptions, but look past that and […]
There’s a basic flaw in the minimum markup law here. To understand where I’m coming from, let me first say I’m in favor of minimum markups, in principal. They attempt to keep giant chains from undercutting local businesses, driving them out, and then raising prices back up. They don’t always succeed in that endeavor, but […]
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