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Why I’m Glad Player Piano is a Work of Fiction

July 18, 2008

A while back, I read Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano, and had honestly meant to write a critique/review of the novel.  Time passed, and the draft got lost along the way somewhere.  The idea was revived when I was thinking last night about how all of our productivity is wasted.
My first impression was that Piano is […]

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A Profitable Company With a Liquidity Problem

May 30, 2008

Detroit’s Greektown Casino is in bankruptcy proceedings! (permalink PDF) Huh? Of course, the Casino management argues that they’re not really bankrupt, they just can’t pay the bills. I wonder if I could get away with that argument?
Casinos have license from the State, which grants them (for all intents and purposes) a […]

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The Rebellion of the Dead

May 19, 2008

On page 30 of crimethINC.’s latest book, Days of War, Nights of Love:
There is no more commonplace observation than this, but to my knowledge no one has yet set out to study why children and adults experience the passing of time differently.
I’ve thought about that problem before, and the answer to me seems straightforward. […]

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Buy This Book

July 25, 2007

Normally, I won’t recommend a book until I’ve read it from cover to cover.
That said, I bought a used copy of The Voluntary City about a week ago. I’ve read maybe the first four chapters, which are essay-esque, in that I understand they weren’t necessarily written as part of a larger work. It […]

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