Tag Archive for 'smoking_ban'

Weekly Links: The Fed’s Coup, Life for Hoarding, and More

Business and Politics
U.S. considers overhaul of financial industry.

Minnesota’s smoking ban has wrought unintended consequences.

Controversy over a religious statue placed outside a Tennessee courthouse.

There is a looming rice shortage in the Philippines. The government is threatening rice hoarders with life in prison.

There Is No Gas Shortage

Al Qaeda does not target innocents. Also, bin Laden is alive and in good health.

Interesting take on Hillary’s “misspeak.”

Science and Technology
Microsoft’s brand has declined in the last four years. The article doesn’t say why Microsoft’s reputation is in decline, but it gives a hint:

Microsoft, which has been diversifying its business beyond packaged software in the past several years, has struggled to articulate how the many facets of its business — software, entertainment and online among them — show a cohesive business plan.

Microsoft’s brand is diluted by its breadth. People don’t know what Microsoft represents anymore.

Speculate much? UK astronomers have discovered the youngest known planet. It’s only 1,600 years old. The next youngest known planet is 10 million years old. One wonders how they figure these things out. Do planets come with birthdays tattooed on their rings?

Christianity
From Christianity Today: Not Your Father’s L’Abri - The Swiss retreat now tends less to philosophical skeptics than to disaffected evangelicals.

The Kiwi enters the debate on how much context matters

An olderish NT Wright interview Really good to watch if you’re still confused about his views.

Blue Like Jazz: The Movie

Weekly Links: God Ordains Huckabee, Price Controls are Cool Again

God Strikes Again
At Liberty University, Mike Huckabee basically claims that he’s getting a helping hand from God.

God must really be wanting a smoking ban and a national sales tax. Naturally of course, we all thought God was already voting for Giuliani, seeing as how he wants all those terrorists dead.

Price Controls Are Back
Welcome back price controls, we missed you! George Bush has decided to freeze interest rates to “help out” poor people of course. But this rhetoric is not to be confused with the “save our economy” talk as well - isn’t it nice when these two things magically line up. Of course, no one is talking about the fact that interest rates were dramatically lowered in 2001 and 2002, likely well below market levels causing the very malinvestment that we are paying for today. Unintended consequences are already being predicted.

More Politics
John Edwards’ latest ad says the systems is rigged against you. (video)

Matthew Yglesias says Mitt Romney’s problem is that he did not decide to flip-flop on religion by abandoning his Mormon faith for something more palatable to the Republican base.

In Iraq, “The size of the corruption exceeds the imagination”.

A timeline has just been created of significant acts by the Bush Administration to curtail civil liberties and privacy rights.

Watch what you say on this and other blogs - you may be arrested.

An application for analyzing political values: http://idealog.org/

In Addition
Chris Tilling asks what “proof-texting” means.

An interesting look at Pullman’s Hid Dark Materials trilogy (you know, what the movie Golden Compass is based on): link


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