Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • Demographic cliff too….., (HT Cowen)

    http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/11/29/u-s-birth-rate-falls-to-a-record-low-decline-is-greatest-among-immigrants/A Demographic cliff too…..,

    (HT Cowen)

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-30 17:25:00 UTC

  • FISCAL CLIFF DEMANDS I’ve been saying this for years and I’ll say it again this

    FISCAL CLIFF DEMANDS

    I’ve been saying this for years and I’ll say it again this time:

    In exchange for taxes require the DoEd, HUD and Energy shuttered. That’s enough.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-30 11:02:00 UTC

  • STUPID STUFF: CELEB TRAIN WRECKS Why are celebrity train wrecks so fascinating?

    STUPID STUFF: CELEB TRAIN WRECKS

    Why are celebrity train wrecks so fascinating? I mean, Lohan, Sheen, on one end, Spears in the middle, and Moore and Stone on the other.

    Most of human existence is pretty transparent to me. Tediously obvious even. But the crazy stuff people do never ceases to amaze me, and I find it endlessly fascinating – even if I wish I didn’t. Even if I’m embarrassed that I do.

    But somehow I love to live in a world where we have all these entertaining characters who tests the limits. Not of criminality. Not of violence. But of some insanely uncontrollably misdirected passion.

    When I was younger I used to love to watch the Dead-Heads go to concerts. I have no interest in them. I dont want to know them. But they’re all happy and adorable in a completely ‘white’ kind of way. And I just loved living in a world with people like that in it. Where it’s perfectly OK to be peaceful counter-culture.

    It’s beautiful – in a sort of twisted way.

    But American civic culture has declined with the ascent of the government, the decline of the family, and the misplaced admiration for division-inducing multiculturalism. And so our countercultures, except for possibly the burning man phenomenon, are almost entirely forms of politica agitation.

    I wont’ get into why this state of affairs exists. It’s a depressing distraction. I’ll just appreciate that a few outrageous individuals can buck the prohibition on revelrous passions.

    Even if it’s just vicarious.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-29 16:35:00 UTC

  • NEEDED HT Kinsella

    http://mises.org/daily/3412/Konkin-on-Libertarian-StrategyCRITIQUE NEEDED

    HT Kinsella

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-29 02:05:00 UTC

  • MOVEMENT : A TIME FOR MORE COUNTRIES Rebuild Civic Society : Break Up The USA

    http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/a-time-for-more-nations/SECESSION MOVEMENT : A TIME FOR MORE COUNTRIES

    Rebuild Civic Society : Break Up The USA

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-29 01:05:00 UTC

  • READS : SMALL HOMOGENOUS STATES ARE BEST FOR ALL A large state does nothing but

    http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/size-nations#.ULb5_zTaR9Y.facebookGREAT READS : SMALL HOMOGENOUS STATES ARE BEST FOR ALL

    A large state does nothing but allow greater debt, and greater debt both warfare, bad policy, corruption, and bad norms. Now, if we could just get it across that monarchy is superior to democracy.

    Break Up The United States.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-29 01:03:00 UTC

  • FASHION : WEAR AND TEAR The last time I lived in a city full time, was in Boston

    FASHION : WEAR AND TEAR

    The last time I lived in a city full time, was in Boston in the 1980’s, when I had a ponytail, an earring and wore a jacket, jeans and sneakers every day – and yes, it was pretty trendy (hip) at the time.

    Normally, I keep a lot of shoes. And while I favor two or three pair, I wear most of them. But that means I wear them driving around, at home, or in the effete shops of bellevue. The main danger to fine shoes in seattle is to the soles from being wet so frequently.

    Today I’ve noticed the wear and tear on my shoes from walking in the city. My Geox are less than six months old and are pretty much at end of cycle. The new Prada’s are taking a beating. Cobblestones and all.

    So, it’s either go thru two pair of shoes every three months, and keep up with fashion or move to four pair and try to make that last six or nine months.

    I guess, if you don’t need a car, you can afford the shoe budget. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-27 02:41:00 UTC

  • SAYS IT ALL

    SAYS IT ALL

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-27 02:05:00 UTC

  • COPYRIGHT DECLARATION In response to the new Facebook guidelines I hereby declar

    COPYRIGHT DECLARATION

    In response to the new Facebook guidelines I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details, postings, writings, illustrations, graphics, comics, paintings, photos and videos, etc. (As a result of the Berne Convention). For commercial use of the above my written consent is needed at all times.

    I hereby notify Facebook that it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, disseminate, or take any other action against me on the basis of this profile and/or its contents. The aforementioned prohibited actions also apply to employees, students, agents and/or any staff under Facebook’s direction or control. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of my privacy is punished by law (UCC 1 1-308-308 1-103 and the Rome Statute).

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    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-26 10:37:00 UTC

  • OBSERVATIONS: WATER QUALITY. I take showers so I don’t see the water in volume e

    OBSERVATIONS: WATER QUALITY.

    I take showers so I don’t see the water in volume ever.

    But I just noticed that the water is green. It’s not clear. It’s not tinted blue. It’s tinted green.

    Now I suppose that’s copper. But the water isn’t potable here. And I suspect that’s why the soups all bother my stomach?

    Yech.

    You don’t have to budget much for utilities. But you do have to budget for drinking and cooking water.

    I had a similar problem in Ottawa. So much sulphur in the water that I couldn’t drink it.

    Growing up on an unspoiled snow fed lake had advantages.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-26 08:13:00 UTC