August 2008
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Republican. Dead on for only 24 questions.
My results from PoliticalQuiz.net (via dearworld). Pretty dead on for a lot of my thoughts for a quiz only 24 questions long.
Conservative/Progressive score: 4 You are a social moderate. You think the progressive movement is overall well meaning, but sometimes it goes too far. On issues like abortion and affirmative action, you see the negatives of both extremes on the issue. You probably value...
Wait...what? Awesome.
From VP candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s Wikipedia page:
“[Palin’s family] were avid outdoors enthusiasts; Sarah and her father would sometimes wake at 3 a.m. to hunt moose before school, and the family would regularly run 5k and 10k races.”
She hunts moose in the wee hours of the morning? What an interesting choice for VP. I haven’t decided what I think...
The absurdity of a windfall profits tax on big oil
While we’re on the subject of Democrats bashing anyone who makes money: You often hear liberals cite that Exxon Mobil makes $1,400/second in profits. What the speechwriters leave out is how much they’re already giving back in taxes…
“Mr. Obama thinks government is not getting a “reasonable share” of oil companies’ profits. Exxon Mobil pays almost as much in...
Is anyone else really tired of the Democrats'...
Recently the head of Obama’s campaign called Mitt Romney a “job killing machine” during his time at Bain Capital, and someone who would hurt the economic appeal of a McCain ticket if he were chosen as VP. Not only is that a caricature of the private equity industry, it’s also not true.
Yes, occasionally a PE firm will acquire a company and fire some people. Why? Because...
Interview with Peter Thiel
“Technology is at the center of what will determine the course of the 21st century. There are aspects of it that are great and aspects that are terrible, and there are some real choices humans have to make about which technologies to foster and which ones we should be more careful about.”
Full article at Reason Magazine
“If you talk to Warren [Buffett], he’ll tell you his preference is not to...”
– Barack Obama
Pluses and minuses to this approach. I do worry that excessive taxes decrease the motivation to create wealth, however I like to see Obama taking a free market stand. Fits well with his post-partisan stance. Read the whole article below, very well written (and long) summary of...
Trade of The Day: Buy Freddie Paper With Fed... →
Fed discount window allows banks to purchase $100 million of (implicitly Treasury backed) Freddie Mac debt for only $3 million cash down, resulting in a 17.7% annualized return. Hell of a deal if you can get it. A great bit of reporting from Dealbreaker.
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Earth Album →
Ran across this today. Click anywhere on a map of the world, and Earth Album shows you the highest rated pictures on Flickr taken in that area. Be as broad as “China” or as granular as “Rome”. I spent an hour today taking a virtual tour of Asia. Pretty cool stuff.
While we’re on the subject of Pandora -...
“Between two evils, always pick the one you’ve never tried before.”
– Mae West
Perhaps Pandora Must Be Our Sacrificial Lamb →
This would truly be a shame, Pandora has caused me to purchase more music than any other media outlet (radio included).
“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the...”
– Sydney Harris
Science confirms what college students everywhere...
“Last year a large study of American college students found that those who drank energy drinks mixed with alcohol during a night out were twice as likely to be injured or otherwise come to harm than those who consumed alcoholic drinks on their own.”
Red Bull gives you wings - and heart trouble? - Times Online