Thoughts

HAPPINESS Having seen a couple of plays, walked the entire theater and shopping district, and cohabited with my felling north easterners for a few days, I’m decidedly relaxed and happy.

Linguini with porcini mushrooms in a buttery truffle cream sauce, bordering but not crossing into too salty. Flawless. Inspiring. An accidental and surprising excellence in a random restaurant. Source date

SEMINAR (A Play) Staring Alan Rickman Caught the play this afternoon despite the mixed reviews. Rickman is worth seeing no matter what he’s in, so I went on that alone.

NYC COFFEE SHOPS – Think Coffee Hit two of the top ten shops so far. Currently at Think Coffee near NYU. The shops so far don’t compare to Seattle or

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/01/how-well-can-you-communicate-over-email-or-blog-posts-how-about-in-person.htmlONLINE WRITING SKILLS Online writing has improved significantly since that paper was written. We err. We fail. We get slapped around. And we learn. Or at least, most people do.

http://www.multiplier-effect.org/?p=3351Yes, but we all KNOW that healthcare costs are the long term problem with the US budget. We also know WHY healthcare costs are the problem: 1) extending the last

GOSSIP Back in Seattle for a few days. Hearing the usual industry gossip. (This is still such a small town.) And, I suppose nothing should surprise me. But the daftness

Sometime within the past six months, I have unconsciously ceased to consider myself an American, and begun to think of myself as an English American – or even just a

SILLY I need a little set of printed person humor cards, that say: 1) “We are business people. We sell ideas for a living. That means that we are a

MOVIE: “The Darkest Hour” Despite the negative reviews, it is a fun, simple Sci-Fi B-Movie that’s good with popcorn. I tend to side with Roger Ebert, that movies should be

My libertarian friends seem to be making a lot of noise about recent policy that allows the USA to conduct “indefinite detention” in its fight against terroris. And, despite my

The Arab Spring Demonstrates The Stability Of Monarchy http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/01/09/the-arab-spring-demonstrates-the-stability-of-monarchy/ Source date (UTC): 2012-01-10 00:41:34 UTC Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/156536120363057152

http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/01/09/the-arab-spring-demonstrates-the-stability-of-monarchy/Vindication of Hans Hermann Hoppe’s “Democracy: The God That Failed” Source date (UTC): 2012-01-09 19:41:00 UTC

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1548222WHY ARE MONARCHIES BETTER THAN REPUBLICS? Proof of Hoppe’s Thesis in a Paper by UW’s Victor Menaldo. MY FAVORITE PARAGRAPH: “This paper argues that the [Arab Spring] region’s monarchs have

The first question of politics is ‘why do I not kill you and take your stuff?’ (Why should we form a cooperative order, versus a dictatorship) The Second question of

I’ve said this many times, but given what I’ve read today, I’ll say it again: Per Camus, the first question of philosophy is ‘Why don’t we commit suicide?’ That one

http://modeledbehavior.com/2012/01/06/open-letter-to-apple-shareholder/WHAT? APPLE GIVE DIVIDENDS? ARE YOU NUTS? 🙂 Source date (UTC): 2012-01-06 18:05:00 UTC

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/01/why-do-humans-have-chins/WHY DO WE HAVE CHINS? An Interesting question by the Smithsonian. Source date (UTC): 2012-01-06 17:49:00 UTC

In reference to What is Property? Dual Meanings from Punk Johnny Cash at Gonzo Times, where the author uses the artificial moral dilemma put forth by Proudhon, where a castaway

A Propertarian Analysis Of Your Bedroom Activities 🙂 http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/01/05/a-propertarian-response-to-your-bedroom-activities/ Source date (UTC): 2012-01-05 18:11:40 UTC Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/154988450733502465