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For the Children

August 23, 2007

A ban on - of all things - low-rise pants?
“Little children see it and want to adopt it, thinking it’s the in thing, I don’t want young people thinking that half-dressing is the way to go. I want them to think about their future.”
Where to start? Hmmm: teach your kids […]

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Tax Law Forces Sale of Collectible

August 22, 2007

Please bear with my rhetorical anecdote:
Years ago, I found a watch in my father’s “junk drawer.” You know, the drawer where a man keeps his wallet, keys, golf tees, receipts, buttons that can’t be matched to a shirt, and various other baubles and trinkets of practically no use to anyone? Anyways, the watch […]

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Hothouses & Healthcare

August 22, 2007

Two quite unrelated topics, today:
It’s expensive to ship fresh produce via air freight to the Northern provinces of Canada, yet it’s somehow, miraculously, going to be cheaper to ship tons of potting soil, trusses, panes of glass, insulation, fertilizer, irrigation systems, etc., in order to build a multi-million dollar greenhouse for seventy-five idiots who live […]

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An OPEC conspiracy?

August 22, 2007

If you’re wondering why gas prices recently spiked - in my neighborhood they’re up some 20 cents over last week - the answer is not an OPEC/ExxonMobil/BP conspiracy. It’s the forces of freaking nature:

The entire field’s operations were shut down just ahead of the storm, reducing daily production by 2.7 million barrels of oil […]

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