Somebody Watching Over Me
In Sleeper (1973), there is discussion between Miles and Luna over belief in God. Luna starts, asking Miles. Miles responds in a typically Allen fashion. After ...
Author: Will Cox
Tanzanian Millers
Why aren’t there more local millers in Tanzania? Or, why is international aid or investment required in order to process cassava, as this story on Marketp...
Handicapped
I’ve found that I put off going to work because I know the Internet connection there is limited.
Logistical Speculation
I’ve just started John Keegan’s The First World War, on a topic of which I know little other than the abbreviated, over-simplified summary found in ...
Not Enough Time
We’ve been very busy with work over the past month, preparing for a release this past weekend, and so parts of my normal routine have slipped away, such a...
Incentives to Comment
Isn’t a shame that the only people with any incentive to comment are trolls or spammers?
Preacherman
Was watching a clip on The NewsHour of President Obama’s gathering in Florida today, and was struck by how like an evangelist he was. It doesn’t com...
What Makes Them So Special?
Why is it that banks can create money out of thin air but I can’t?
Live! (on TiVo)
We’ll be watching the pomp and circumstance with the kids this evening, perhaps with a tub of popcorn and some hot chocolate.
Commenters
I tend to be very happy with reading websites through their syndicated feeds rather than directly. Recently, with all the political and economic ferment, I̵...
Increasing Employment
Do you know what provides lots of jobs? Inefficiency. While touring China, [a businessman] came upon a team of nearly 100 workers building an earthen dam with s...
Must Be Nice
I get the feeling that Rick‘s new job involves daily posts to his site.
For All Debts, Public and Private
As a young man with few dollars, I used to spend some time admiring the engraving on those few I had. I’ve long been struck by the phrase printed on Feder...
Economic Stimulus Package: No Taxes
The bank just sent a summary statement of the escrow account we use to pay the local and school property taxes. One achieves a certain distance from the taxatio...