We, here in the Ratlands, wish you and yours a Merry Christmas. As a bit of a reminder (for some of my family, although they will probably never see it) that it wasn’t that long ago that a bountiful Christmas dinner was dependent on whether or not any of the family managed to shoot any [...]
Tagged food, Guns, Kansas, PersonalI’ve been working on a set of rules. Rules to live by, rules about how the world works, that sort of thing. I’m probably guilty of stealing the idea from NCIS. The thing is, that when I start thinking about reducing what I know and believe about the world to simple statements, it breaks into [...]
Tagged ethics, Personal, pointless gesturesOK, maybe that’s a bit premature. Still, I find it fascinating that scientists have now created and trapped anti-matter in a containment field “a magnetic bowl, kind of a bottle, that holds the antihydrogen”.
Tagged energy, Science/TechnologyActually, last week. In a article taking issue with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek takes issue with Bernanke’s comments on some moves the Chinese have made in their monetary policy. To wit: Apparently, when Beijing increases the supply of Chinese currency it does so as part of what Prof. Bernanke [...]
Tagged abuse of power, Economics, federal reserve, foreign policy, inflation, PoliticsRatlands is using WP-Gravatar