Your daily serving of doom and gloom.
The post will make you remember why you don’t like cities. The comments will make you remember why you hate people.
The sun still quite and they tell us we should not be worried. So maybe you should start worrying.
This is already destroying gardens near you.
Beggar thy neighbor. Really, the law allows no other choice. But it seems kind of immoral to take assets away from one group of workers and give them to another when they all paid in and all had the same agreement with the parent company. It will make for bad international relations as well.
This week’s poem of the week Nothing is Beyond You from Rich Mullins, Mitch McVicker, and Tom Boothe.
The rant of the week is Corrie Ten Boom’s complaint about false teachers.
This week’s essay of the week is part of a ridiculously long essay that the Chieftain of Seir has been working on. Technically, it is still in the draft stage. But he has been taking his sweet time finishing the thing, so we thought we would throw this out to put pressure on him to hurry up and finish the thing.
Interesting set of links on Toxoplasma gondii.
They were very fearful. Funny how they worry that fear will cause us to make bad decisions but they never seem to wonder if fear drove them to make some very bad decisions.
You know a bank is to big when it starts suing itself.
Secret program no big deal after all. Somehow, that is not a surprise.
An interesting angle on California’s IOUs. Note that just because states are barred from creating their own currency does not mean that no one else can. That distinction seems to be lost on some people.
Tribute is always easiest way of dealing with barbarians. Even Rome understood that.
Do you know how the word albatross (which is the name of a bird) became associated with a wearisome burden? If you don’t, you need to read this poem from beginning to end for your own education.
“Why can’t the regular U.S. military organizations do anything?” is this week’s rant of the week.
You are going to be hearing a lot about “front running” in the coming months. There are a growing number of people who are prepared to blame all sorts of evils on the practice. For that reason, people need to read this white paper so that they can understand what all the fuss is about.