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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Norman Lear has another HIT on his resume
I was lazily working my way through the paper on a non-football Saturday morning and came across an interesting article. No, it wasn’t that The Woodlands boys and girls both won their varsity soccer games, as usual. It was that … Continue reading
Darwin & Viktor Deak vs. Jindal, Huckabee and booga-booga
In the 6th edition of “On the Origin of Species” Charles Darwin lamented over the power of “steady misrepresentation” of the facts and observations of his work 150 years ago. Those were days when God’s grace meant you could be … Continue reading
Posted in anthropology, astronomy, behavior, biology, brain, philosophy, politics, public policy, religion, science, social science
Tagged ambivalence, Branch & Scott, Copernicus, Dogma, evolution, faith, Galileo, genetic drift, intolerance, mutation, primates, religion in schools, Roman Catholic Church, science, speciation
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Homeland Security Threat Level – Does it ever change?
I did a lot of business travel in the last 18 months and have witnessed the variety of TSA and airport security changes. Most of the improvements have actually, well, improved the security experience. However one thing that NEVER changes … Continue reading
Money, Money and More Money; Obama, McCain, Gates & Bernanke
At the delayed morning meeting with an attorney that hates attorneys, we got around to talking about the money… yeah, THAT money. There is the Stimulus Package I & II, the normal government loads to states, the bailout to some … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, business strategy, economics, finance, government, media, musings, politics, public policy, taxes
Tagged ARRA, bailout, Bernake, collaspe, Ford, GM, Leadership, obama, states, stimulus packages, tillions, wars
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Presidential Address to Congress Transcript
Here’s the transcript from tonight’s Presidential Address to Congress: Get it from the WhiteHouse.gov site. My favorite part: But it is the responsibility of every citizen to participate in it. And so tonight, I ask every American to commit to … Continue reading
Posted in politics
Tagged address to congress, Congress, Democrat, obama, presidential address, Republican
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Questioning Long Term Investment via Stocks – a Case Study with Intel
Reproduced from a private email by Mahesh Johari: For most of the last 25 years we (as a nation) have been sold a story about investing in stocks for the long run. Invest steadily, mindlessly, and over the long run … Continue reading
Posted in data mining, economics, finance, mathematics, metrics, public policy, speculation, Statistics, truth
Tagged bonds, case study, dji, dow jones, finance, index, intel, investing, investment, investor, long term, s&p, s&p 500, stock market, stocks
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Oscars Ratings 2009 – Will the 81st Academy Awards Ratings be Slumdog?
Update 2/23 – Oscars Ratings up about 10% (see here and here) putting the ratings around 33 million. Not a great bump from recent trends… Review the last 50 years of ratings here. Certainly the show was better than in … Continue reading
Posted in hollywood, media, Television
Tagged academy awards, best picture, oscars, oscars 2009, slumdog, slumdog millionaire
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Coincidence of Wants Problem Destroyed By Internet
The Conicidence of Wants, the conceptual basis of our money system, has this formulation: The phrase double coincidence of wants was used in Jevons (1893). “[T]he first difficulty in barter is to find two persons whose disposable possessions mutually suit … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, philosophy, politics, public policy, science
Tagged coincidence of wants, copyright, Internet, piracy, pirate bay
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