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In Which I Learn About Making Videos, Snowboarding

January 29, 2008

Last weekend I got a few seconds of footage snowboarding up north. I am not terribly impressed with the quality of the footage, but there are several reasons for that:
There is too much 2-dimensional action in this reel. The camera need not be moving, but should be placed in a location so as to [...]

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A Good Way to Get Rid of Private Schools

January 28, 2008

President Bush’s latest, we’ve been given the recipe for destroying private schools:
White House counselor Ed Gillespie, describing Bush’s plans for a new school initiative, said it would be called “Pell Grants for Kids.” If approved by Congress, it would provide money for poor kids in struggling schools so they could shift to private schools [...]

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Unfree Markets, and Economic Collapse

January 25, 2008

I’ve long maintained that we don’t have a “free market.” Not in the U.S., not elsewhere. Sure, some markets are comparatively “freer” than others, but the least-bad alternative is not necessarily good. Well, when mainstream financial publications like FT start denouncing the rise of corporatism…

How can it be that Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, [...]

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Detroit Mayor Guilty of Perjury?

January 24, 2008

In case you’re not familiar with Kwame Kilpatrick — and there’s no reason you would be, unless you have a fetish for all things Detroit, or you live here — let me recap. There was the curious one-year lease on a Cadillac Escalade, to the tune of $24,995. Or, the use of a [...]

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