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Or maybe it’s my job to know…

According to this little test I know so much about drugs I’m, well… NameThatDrug.com – Identify The Drug

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2010 08 25 cziltang Americana
Corrections
Personal
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A few links

It’s almost 1:00 AM, so I can’t talk about these in the depth I’d like, but I thought I’d pass them on anyway. From Carpe Diem: For anyone who has both a) a bit of knowledge about economic realities as opposed to the unicorn farts one usually hears in the MSM, and b) spent any [...]

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2010 06 09 cziltang Economics
Health Care
Music
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Vacation wrap-up

I’ve been on vacation this past week, although at times it’s been hard to tell.  Mostly it’s been some running around punctuated by periods of near vegetative stupor.  That, and we’ve watched a whole lot of NCIS re-runs. Sunday, the Head Rat and I joined my folks at the Neal Reunion and then visited cemeteries [...]

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2010 06 04 cziltang Economics
No particular point
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No, I haven’t written anything for quite a while, but, on the bright side, I haven’t given you “definitive” advice that later turned out to be wrong…

Yes, I’m still alive.  I’ve been watching a lot of TV in the evenings.  Lots of stuff going on at work.  I would lie and say I’ve been working on a really big essay, but I don’t really see the point.  I’ve been coming home in the evening, crawling into bed and dozing through the [...]

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2010 04 08 cziltang Health Care
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The Day the Dollar Died

John Galt at Shenandoah does a ton of economic analysis.  Some of it is pretty technical, with charts and graphs, referencing technical market trading terms that I, frankly, don’t always follow.  But, if you read it regularly you can pick up a lot of very interesting economic information.  He’s had a number of posts that [...]

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2010 02 27 cziltang Economics
Nanny State
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Discovering the premise was wrong won’t stop us from continuing to try to fix the problem by throwing money at it

“Poverty breeds crime” is one of those simple formulations that seems to be pretty much taken for granted.  Everyone knows it’s true, and it is one of the “givens” that we use, either directly or indirectly as a rationale for a variety of social programs.  Having spent 30 years working in corrections, one would think [...]

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2010 02 14 cziltang Corrections
Economics
Nanny State
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Cleaning out the browser

An odd collection of links tonight: First, an article which looks at a number of  “Gansta vs. Cop” shooting issues.  That description isn’t nearly as interesting as the article.  Among other points, contrary to what I believed, “Gangstas” actually get more shots on target than the Cops they are shooting at.  The author speculates that [...]

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2010 01 23 cziltang Environment
Media
Politics
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For your amusement

A lovely no smoking sign.  As the comment notes, it isn’t really civil disobedience, but it is, perhaps, a start. Folks like me who have been married for years probably find this sort of thing funnier than those of you who are actually dating.  But you should watch DATE WARS anyway.

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2010 01 04 cziltang Nanny State
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Lord Monckton on Climategate

If you’ve got half an hour, it would be worth your time to watch this video.  I find it rather refreshing to hear Lord Monckton labelling the principals of the AGW fraud   the criminals that they are.  And then back up the charges.  I was also tickled by his statement that these individuals “call themselves [...]

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2009 12 15 cziltang global warming Comments (0)

You’d better change them lightbulbs

Did you know the EPA has a Criminal Investigations Division?  Or that they are stocking up on Glock pistols? Now that they’ve declared themselves Lord and Master of everything that breathes,  I find the notion of armed EPA agents a bit disturbing.

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2009 12 14 cziltang Environment
Guns
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