Posts Tagged ‘Economy’
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The Paddy Wagon
Posted on August 4, 2010
It is unclear whether the paddy wagon got its name from the Irish who were hauled off in police wagons in the late 19th century or from the Irish cops...
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Internet Tax Shopping
Posted on July 14, 2010
One of my wife’s favorite hobbies is taking out the laptop and shopping online. She can buy clothes for my son, she can shop for shoes, she can get great...
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Thesis, Antithesis, Progress
Posted on June 24, 2010
Like many college students, I struggled mightily to understand what the hell Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was trying to say in his very dense philosophical texts. Since I don’t read...
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America is Doomed?
Posted on May 27, 2010
I was watching television this morning and CNN was alternating between video of the great Gulf leak and a video from the Hubble telescope of a planet getting eaten by...
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The Constant Gardener
Posted on May 26, 2010
In 2005, Paramount released a movie starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz called The Constant Gardener. This post has absolutely nothing to do with that movie. I was thinking about...
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