Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • ON POPULISM

    http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/08/the_ideological_2.htmlCAPLAN ON POPULISM

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 09:05:00 UTC

  • OK, so how do I redraw the Asplundt/Nolan chart for families, or is my original

    OK, so how do I redraw the Asplundt/Nolan chart for families, or is my original diagram accurate enough?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 08:31:00 UTC

  • HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO BUY A WHOLE COUNTRY? “Dec. 6, 10 p.m. Ukrainian Preside

    HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO BUY A WHOLE COUNTRY?

    “Dec. 6, 10 p.m. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, meeting today in Sochi with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, signed an agreement stating that Ukraine will join the Kremlin-led Customs Union, according to Edward Lucas, senior editor at The Economist, citing his own sources.

    The Kyiv Post could not independently confirm the news. Kremlin official contacted by Kyiv Post also did not confirm the news and said only to look for statements on the Kremlin’s official website. As of 10:45 a.m. on Dec. 7, the only statement posted to the site confirmed a visit by Yanukovych to Sochi.

    “Wow! Hearing Yanukovich in Sochi today signed strategic agrt w Russia includes $5BN+ up front, gas price $200 + agrt to join customs union,” Lucas wrote on Twitter.

    The details of the agreement, which reportedly include billions up front for the country, as well as a huge price cut on gas, are being hammered out in Moscow, Lucas wrote.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 07:35:00 UTC

  • You’ll like this I think. 🙂 (And a few other viewers too, hence the share.)

    You’ll like this I think. 🙂 (And a few other viewers too, hence the share.)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 06:39:00 UTC

  • SHE COOKS, SHE CLEANS, SHE CAN EVEN SEW! Now, seriously, my grandmother was an a

    SHE COOKS, SHE CLEANS, SHE CAN EVEN SEW!

    Now, seriously, my grandmother was an amazing cook. And honestly, no woman in my life before could cook worth a damn. The art is lost. It’s not womanly to cook apparently any longer.

    V is like my grandmother: her cooking seems effortless, and awesome, every time.

    Unlike my grandmother, V feeds me too much. But I am down to 81kilos again by dropping to two meals a day.

    I guess some magazine is going to run our photos. Just because we are both hams for the camera. I know the photographers said we were the most fun couple they’d ever done. And it was obvious. 🙂

    Now, eating big meals and only eating a ‘meal’ once or twice a day is pretty common here.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 06:32:00 UTC

  • Propertarianism: Arguments to Necessity not Preference Propertarianism is a desc

    Propertarianism: Arguments to Necessity not Preference

    Propertarianism is a descriptive system of universal ethics, determined by necessity, not preference.

    –PRINCIPLES–

    0) Memory and Time = consciousness experience of differences in state

    1) The structure of reproduction

    2) The crimes of reproduction: violence, free riding.

    3) The necessity of the signaling economy for learning and reproduction

    4) The necessity of calculation for action

    5) The necessity of cooperation for scale

    6) The necessity of property in all its forms

    7) The crimes of property: theft, fraud, fraud by omission

    8 ) The structure of production (division of knowledge and labor)

    9) The necessity and properties of naturalism and instrumentalism

    10 ) The properties of language and the problem of obscurantism

    11) The three weapons of influence and the emergent class tripartite structure of the classes

    12) The properties of number, money, prices, contract, and law.

    13) The institutions of cooperation at scale: rules and commons.

    14) The development of the social capital of trust: the problem of diversity vs outbreeding.

    15) The crimes of cooperation at scale: Rent seeking, Privatization, Socialization, Corruption, Extortion, Usurpation, War.

    16) The Institutions of competition at scale : heterogeneous polities.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 06:16:00 UTC

  • So, basically, freeing up women by redistribution essentially recreates diversit

    So, basically, freeing up women by redistribution essentially recreates diversity (tribalism) in any society.

    If you do that you’re dead. And that seems to be what the data tells us for any civilization that fully employs its women.

    Ack.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 05:56:00 UTC

  • OK. ONE CRISIS AVERTED. (Personal) Two more to go. Take me a few days. 🙂 Lots o

    OK. ONE CRISIS AVERTED.

    (Personal)

    Two more to go. Take me a few days. 🙂 Lots of tylenol. Lots of sleep. But I’ll solve the rest of it. One way or another.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 05:35:00 UTC

  • LIBERTARIAN OR ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIAN? If calling one’s self a libertarian mea

    LIBERTARIAN OR ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIAN?

    If calling one’s self a libertarian means that one hopes to enfranchise others in the love of liberty then that is a fools game. The only difference between aristocratic egalitarianism and libertarianism, is that AE uses force to obtain liberty and suppresses the evolution of the state. while we libertarians appeal to reason like a beggar for alms.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 05:22:00 UTC

  • “…for there is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, th

    “…for there is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and the slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.” – Nabokov

    (thanks ken)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-07 05:18:00 UTC