MICHAEL LEWIS PRINCETON BACCALAUREATE 2012 MERITOCRACY OR LUCK OR EVEN SOMETHING ELSE I WOULD SUGGEST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiQ_T5C3hIM&list=UUcBYSgQTxc126-lj_gdrO8Q&index=1&feature=plcp

 THIS IS ONE TO WATCH

Radovan

People used to exclaim that they mistook me for him.........
I think they were justified, in their error............
We used to joke that if I were found dead, it would be because someone mistook me for him.


My hair still has color though.....

See David Kaiser's current post

RE THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME THE END IN SIGHT FOR GLOBALIST MARKET CAPITALISM

http://etfdailynews.com/2012/06/26/u-s-seeks-war-with-china-to-stiff-investors-of-treasuries-uup-udn-gld-slv-uso/

RE PLAYING THREE SIDES IN TRADE AND PROTO HOSTILITIES

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17988142

THIS MAY LOOK VAGUELY FAMILIAR TO ONE OR MORE OF YOU

RE THE HORSEY SET NYT

Reddam represents the bottom, doesn't he, in several categories:


Analytic philosophy
Animal husbandry
mortgage backed securities
loan sharking


He once taught ethics and analytic philosophy, 


but hey, not lucrative enough.

Russians love this site

Russia 13

Pageviews by Browsers Internet Explorer 13 (100%)

I FOUND THIS SITE RATHER INTERESTING ON FIRST LOOK

http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/mind-control-theories-and-techniques-used-by-mass-media/

RE STEPHANIE FLANDERS BBC: EUROZONE NO SAFE HAVEN

I am tickled to see that she does not shrink from using the ' competitiveness ' word here.


Term search: flatly wrong

SAW THIS ON JUDE HAMMERLE'S SITE

"Specialties

A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of a carpet must be a genius.
--Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Furniture, 1840"

Since I am an old oriental rug nut, I could not resist the implication.

twice as many foolish Russians this week view this site as those from all other countries combined

This is a popular Russian URL:

http://www3.hardueantivir.dnset.com/?pf1=lNuazJ6nmq6Zh9rnpqObmOTanaXDo52qy5WnrMyvnpY%3D

This is a popular referring site apparently:

http://www3.hardueantivir.dnset.com/

RE the menu SQUIRREL IS A LOT BETTER THAN RABBIT

It is no longer  (or was or is ultimately, never, really) just about cat food.............................


My mother, who was in a position to know, so advised me of the above comparison recently 'squirrel is a lot better than rabbit......' 


I meant to ask her to elaborate.....

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-is-squirrel-perfect-austerity-dish.html

Re DK s current post and this comment

 "James50 said...

I think about putting people to work and expanding our company all the time. The biggest roadblocks are contained in the regulatory apparatus of the government and the uncertainties created by our over-spending and dysfunctional political system. You speak of further government expansion as a way to address the needs of the community. But what I see on the ground every day is that government is the enemy of the expansion of production and the enemy of wealth creation in communities. The large companies hire lobbyists and revolving door regulators to get their way. In medium and small business, we are expected to make our way through a thicket of regulations. There is no way to keep track of all of them. Sometimes I think they are put there by the “big boys” as a way to keep down competition. I know they are a source of constant fear and anxiety for people like me.

Others have pointed out that investment in long term assets (>20 years) is 50% of what it should be and is the main reason our economy continues to suffer such large unemployment. Government creates uncertainty at every level. Can anyone say what tax policy will be in the future? Can anyone know the long term effects of the vast expansion of the money supply in the last 5 years? What will our health care system morph into? You want government to get bigger, but it seems that only increases its dysfunction. The evidence right before our eyes is that more government makes things worse not better.

David, I am not sure what the answers are, but think your analysis is too much rooted in a past that will never return. Government this large and powerful is inherently corrupt and corrupting."

Great and revealing comment.

This is the kind of frustration one gets from a system designed to do little, and to spread power out, originally only among 13, but then eventually through fifty, states.

It was not a system designed to pull together, but rather, perhaps, designed, if anything, when it hit the fan, to pull amicably, or at least peacably,apart.

That was not how Lincoln and some others interpreted it, however.

Certainly Texas always retained a right to secede, and who could have blamed them, given what each and all states faced?

re DK's current post

"....The great adventure of the twentieth century, pursued by leaders and political parties of all stripes, was the attempt to organize relatively just societies...."


I wish that this had been the case, but I think that it was not about this at all, for virtually any of them, even the so called liberal democracies; 


but especially not, for the likes of say Hitler, or Stalin, whose agendas were decidedly contrary to this dreamy ideal. 

the menu re deviled eggs again today

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/05/menu-deviled-eggs-michael-lewis-john.html