Category Archives: social sciences

Silly Disputes over Jobs and Apple

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

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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Less Than a Month?

Even the MSM is now admitting the current banking system of the West is just two or three weeks from collapse. The focus of attention is on Greece. Ever met any Greeks? I have. The national pastime is gaming the … Continue reading

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Profits of Sin

The CEO of Bank of America says, regarding the new fees he’s charging debit card users, that his bank has the right to make a profit. So far, so good, but he’s trying to ignore one little problem: [P]eople aren’t … Continue reading

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Radical Stability

radical (Latin: radix) The root, pertaining to the source or foundation of things; a political position which advocates removing everything and starting over. The word is typically used as an adjective suggesting dramatic and wholesale change in the current situation, … Continue reading

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Recapitulation of Intuition

So my timing was a little off, but not by much on the scale of things. Back in April I wrote I felt things would be significantly worse here in the US before my birthday, now two weeks past. I … Continue reading

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Myth of Lothario

It’s not that there are no Lotharios out there, but they are rare. When you begin to collect facts and use them to displace mythology, it’s amazing how it can change your understanding of things. Your reflexes and instincts shift … Continue reading

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Watching Economics News This Weekend

Because most people know so little about economics, TPTB don’t knock out the alternative econ-news sites so quickly as the others. That’s a good thing if you know economics, but it’s opaque to the sheeple. What little they do know … Continue reading

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Music and Self-Deception

I’m not a real musician. I just happen to be able to sing some, and can almost read music — I can pick out the correct notes on a keyboard, but can’t actually play. People tend to like my singing, … Continue reading

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Womanhood: The Big Western Lie

Fundamental to our modern Western notion of what men and women ought to be to each other is the Western Medieval Mythology of Mariolatry. Please note: I don’t attack revering Mary as the mother of Jesus, and this is not … Continue reading

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