Category Archives: social sciences

Guessing Dates

Posted on October 22, 2011 by ehurst

Lots of frantic posturing about November 5 and 9. There’s this drive to get folks to pull their money from the big banks by November 5 and switch to something smaller, local, and more like a savings and loan or … Continue reading →

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Nature of Government

Posted on October 18, 2011 by ehurst

Government in the Postmodern West has returned to its roots, becoming once again a matter of one society conquering another. In ancient times, most imperial conquests did not bring that much destruction, nor any massive number of dead bodies, when … Continue reading →

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Internet Demographics and Awareness

Posted on October 17, 2011 by ehurst

Apparently the traffic here has risen just high enough to attract the spammers. I’m getting a lot of spammy comments these days, something which became significant about the time I starting receiving 200 hits per day on a routine basis. … Continue reading →

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False Economies

Posted on October 15, 2011 by ehurst

We’ve seen where hidden economies contribute to our actual production, but aren’t counted officially. Now we’ll discuss fake economies which are counted, but produce nothing. A basic principle: Shuffling money and information is not production. Government also produces nothing we … Continue reading →

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Fools Rush In

Posted on October 14, 2011 by ehurst

I really didn’t think it would come this soon. And it may not, but for all I and thousands of others can tell, it’s going to happen before the end of the month. Maybe any day now. Despite the utter … Continue reading →

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Hidden Economies

Posted on October 13, 2011 by ehurst

You may be aware of the concept of unofficial economic activity, that which isn’t calculated into the formulas because it’s illegal, black market, or in some other way underground and unreported. There are some good estimates and some bad ones, … Continue reading →

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Dunbar and the ANE Lifestyle

Posted on October 11, 2011 by ehurst

Sometime near the beginning of my clerical training in the 1970s, I learned a single pastor could be supported full time beginning around 50 members, and was pretty solid at 75. But as the congregation grew, he would not be … Continue reading →

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Election Grumbling

Posted on October 11, 2011 by ehurst

Part of me wonders if we will even have an election. It could easily be halted by a declaration of martial law. The probability of it grows incrementally every day. But just in case we do have an election, here … Continue reading →

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Silly Disputes over Jobs and Apple

Posted on October 10, 2011 by ehurst

Go ahead and use your favorite search engine. You’ll find many tributes to Steve Jobs, and a growing number of slams. Dig a little deeper, and you’ll see a somewhat finer division among the tributes. Most say he did big … Continue reading →

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Complexity of Reality

Posted on October 9, 2011 by ehurst

We shall have a staged revolution. While I confess to a preference for natural gardening, that doesn’t mean there’s no place for effective shortcuts. To avoid having to use pesticides, I try to grow stuff which has few natural enemies … Continue reading →

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