Curt Doolittle

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  • Yo Kurt, tell me if you see this guitar for sale dirt cheap anywhere; all i know

    Yo Kurt, tell me if you see this guitar for sale dirt cheap anywhere; all i know is that it’s from behind the Iron Curtain a few decades ago.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-01 15:05:00 UTC

  • ON SECESSION

    http://cnsnews.com/blog/patrick-j-buchanan/stirrings-secessionBUCHANNAN ON SECESSION

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-01 02:25:00 UTC

  • CONSERVATIVE STRATEGY The conservative strategy has been 1) to ally with Christi

    CONSERVATIVE STRATEGY

    The conservative strategy has been 1) to ally with Christians and the wealthy to oppose the expansion of the non meritocratic, non-proportional, anti-nuclear family, anti aristocratic, anti decentralized, secular socialist state. 2). To force the bankruptcy of the intertemporally redistributive fiat money state before the social capital of the aristocratic European model in American civic society is expended, and the nuclear family, the protestant ethic and all it entails are bankrupted. In the sense that social capital consisting of norms is as valuable or more so than money capital and built capital. Which is true given that Protestants have created the only high trust societies.

    The strategy is not to get the rich richer for their own sake. But to pay the rich to oppose the expansion of the socialist state.

    Marketing campaigns, slogans, and silly phrases being what they are, they obscure the complex and rational content of political strategies.

    And that is the purpose of ideology: to motivate, not educate.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-01 02:23:00 UTC

  • ITS TALENT, NOT RESOURCES. On Oversing as a PSA solution: “Most shops think of r

    ITS TALENT, NOT RESOURCES.

    On Oversing as a PSA solution:

    “Most shops think of resources as interchangeable, but we have never viewed the world that way.” – Steven Salta

    Thanks Steven. That’s a go to market story. It’s all the differentiator that we need.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-30 23:28:00 UTC

  • SIZE OF NATIONS I argue in favor of small countries (not states) for simple reas

    http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/size-nations#.ULl0k5CpEjE.facebookTHE SIZE OF NATIONS

    I argue in favor of small countries (not states) for simple reasons:

    1) the high trust normative economy can develop with lowest transaction costs.

    2) Government’s emphasis is on selection of priorities using scarce resources, not profiting and expanding from conflict resolution between opposing minorities.

    3) Societies are more egalitarian when norms are homogenous.

    4) It is extremely difficult for small states to conduct war because they have limited access to credit via fiat money.

    5) They are better, happier, places to live. (the USA is still living off it’s stored social capital that peaked with the baby boom. Although that’s just about depleted.)

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-30 22:16:00 UTC

  • MATTER

    http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Economics/Labor/?view=usa&ci=9780199942213INCENTIVES MATTER :

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-30 22:04:00 UTC

  • FOR CANADAS CRASH?

    http://business.time.com/2012/11/30/oh-no-canada-as-household-debt-skyrockets-will-canadians-face-a-2007-style-crisis/TIME FOR CANADAS CRASH?

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-30 17:32:00 UTC

  • 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