It is better to support your body with little means than to support your spirit with little worth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html?pagewanted=all
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Projected 10 percent increase in property taxes because of the stock market downturn. And New York State has the reputation of having one of the better run pension plans.
Not that reputation necessarily means much. People use to think that Harvard had a really well run endowment.
On the other hand, some reputations keep getting confirmed all the time. Products from China can hurt you in ways you never would have dreamed of.
A bunch of graphs that will show you how the economy is doing. If your not really interested in the housing industry scroll down to the middle of the post. That is where the broader economic measures start.
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Anyone who has ever had to deal with their bosses overacting to information contained in an MSDS will appreciate this post.
Cometary on Der Spiegel’s report that Hezbollah killed Hariri. It helps balance out the people who are running around saying that the Spiegel article was just Mossad disinformation.
The Binghamton Newspaper put together a Google map showing the most heavily traveled “structurally deficient” bridges in Broome county. Their is also a list of all of the bridges in the southern tier of New York here. This type of information should be easy to get for all counties but it is not.
Essay of the Week: 5/24/09-5/30/09
This week’s essay of the week is a fascinating essay about the difference a good doctor can make. And it raises interesting questions about what would happen if people really knew who the good doctors were.
Typical hillbilly ingenuity
Dangerous as all get out. But then, the rest of his life is probably just as dangerous.
Growing your own fresh air
The McDonnell XF-85 Goblin
As a kid, we all knew that things like this just had to be done.
(went looking for this after reading this article)
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Maybe America should let the Taliban win. At least then the world would not be giving billions of dollars in aid to a nation that is expanding its nuclear arsenal even as it is fighting a civil war and is unable to support itself economically. It just shows how insane the world is that nobody has the backbone to put a stop to this.
Michael Yon on combat tracking.
Best slam of California ever: “By the way, West Virginia balances its budget.”