How Late Blight came to be such a disaster and other things you might want to know.

A good explanation of how the unemployment rate can fall while at the same time the number of people with out jobs rises.

Relatively harmless right now. But wait until the cost of health really starts to bring down the government. Then this foot in the door will be expanded.

For all the typeface geeks.

Old News. But don’t miss the part on the end about raising fuel taxes. No tax like a regressive tax.

Not just the Chinese. It is also one of the reasons that banks are not lending to other people.

Most of you already saw this on Bit’er Pitter. But those that did not should not miss it.

Some sad news. At least for the nerds amongst us, there was no better source of hard data and, for that, almost any opinion he had could be tolerated.