Curt Doolittle

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  • EX WIFE LEVIED THIS CRITICISM AGAINST ME DURING OUR DIVORCE WTF? Cute tactic as

    http://spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/10/02/1948550612461284.shortMY EX WIFE LEVIED THIS CRITICISM AGAINST ME DURING OUR DIVORCE

    WTF? Cute tactic as a means of trying to deny me access to my son as leverage to get more money. Well, how does that explain my extenuated rotund period? 🙂 Until I dated again, I certainly didn’t push fashion. Personally, if I didn’t have to raise money and sell ideas to other people, I’d wear jeans and untucked collared shirts half unbuttoned, with long hair and sneakers. I’d look like a rumpled professor. And I certainly would’t shave my chest any longer. That’s the inner me. OK? I think ‘adornment’ equates to having to sell s**t for a living. It’s the people that dont sell s**t for a living that dress up that always bother me. If selling s**t is sociopathic then we’re all in for an interesting world someday.

    In fact. WTF. Save teh dressup for the club scene.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-06 07:43:00 UTC

  • know, when a friend writes something good, it’s just natural to be complimentary

    http://evolutionaryaesthetics.blogspot.com/You know, when a friend writes something good, it’s just natural to be complimentary. The problem is, that when it’s really good, no one pays attention, because your opinion is discounted. For this reason, compliments from the opposition are more valuable than those from friends.

    Troy has written a thesis that (of course I agree with) but which is the rare exception: a dissertation worth reading.

    The couple we’re going to dinner with is late, and I had a few minutes, and just randomly started reading something in my queue and was rewarded for it.

    Thanks Troy, for turning me on to your dissertation. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-03 15:50:00 UTC

  • INFOGRAPHIC

    http://dmarron.com/2012/10/29/the-partisan-and-ideological-makeup-of-congress/AWESOME INFOGRAPHIC

    Source date (UTC): 2012-10-30 15:28:00 UTC

  • SCARCITY IN EVERYTHING “The single most exciting thing you encounter in governme

    SCARCITY IN EVERYTHING

    “The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.” ~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

    Source date (UTC): 2012-10-29 08:05:00 UTC

  • TRUTH ABOUT THE MCDONALD’S HOT COFFEE CASE And how evolutionary law is superior

    http://latentparadigm.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/everything-you-think-you-know-about-the-mcdonalds-coffee-case-is-wrong/THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MCDONALD’S HOT COFFEE CASE

    And how evolutionary law is superior to legislative law.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-10-22 18:14:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/the-case-for-abolishing-patents-yes-all-of-them/262913/

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-28 06:56:00 UTC

  • ” … the most improper job of any man, even saints … is bossing other men. No

    ” … the most improper job of any man, even saints … is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity”

    – JRR to Christopher Tolkein

    (Thanks to Skye Stewart for the longer quote.)

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-24 21:21:00 UTC

  • Bit Of A Rant But Priceless Tolkein

    http://peacerequiresanarchy.wordpress.com/A Bit Of A Rant But Priceless Tolkein.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-24 21:20:00 UTC

  • 47% OR IS IT 74%? I love that this issue is getting popularized. This article tr

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-47-percent/2012/09/21/57dc7bbe-0341-11e2-8102-ebee9c66e190_story.htmlTHE 47% OR IS IT 74%?

    I love that this issue is getting popularized. This article tries to debunk a few myths but misses out on a few important and related statistics:

    a) something close to 74% of people join the tax paying majority at some point in their lives. The young, immigrants and the old of course, are not. The people of productive age of course are. So, it’s true that at any given point less than half of americans pay taxes. But that’s not the same thing as saying that more than half of them will become, or have been, taxpayers.

    b) The 1% consists largely of people who are in that 1% for only one or two years – people who make windfalls.

    c) About 12% of americans actually qualify as ‘poor’. The rest are either recent immigrants, young or old, and the remainder are those who have made poor reproductive decisions, or have other problems that leave them to the left of the curve.

    d) Any statistic that makes use of ‘household’ rather than individual numbers means the author is lying. The composition of the family has eroded so significantly since the sixties that any statistical comparison of households is irrelevant. We humans choose spatial independence at all costs. This means more smaller poorer households.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-23 16:34:00 UTC

  • FROM A POST ON QUORA – THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF MAJORITY RULE OVER HETEROGENEOUS VAL

    FROM A POST ON QUORA – THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF MAJORITY RULE OVER HETEROGENEOUS VALUE SYSTEMS

    Small homogenous cultures tend to be redistributive. One of the sillly myths, is that 350M americans of various value systems can be governed as are 10M northern european protestant germanics. Majority rule assists us in selecting fiscal priorities when our interests and values are the same. But as the values of a country become heterogeneous through immigration, or the breakdown of the nuclear family that allows women to return to their communal state of bearing children but asking others to pay for them, we render majority rule impossible. Because now we are not selecting priorities for the use of scarce resources, and generating laws to prevent privatization of those investment ‘commons’, but we are instead, generating laws to advance one system of moral codes at the expense of another, and using money from one group to achieve what is amoral to them. This is why democratic government is limited to homogenous cultural entities. And why the market serves us across heterogeneous entities. Our institutions of majority rule are not competent to solve this problem of heterogeneous values.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-22 13:11:00 UTC