Michael Giberson Sometimes politicians and lobbyists make claims that deserve to be laughed at in the most public way possible. Here is an example from the ethanol lobby, via The Hill‘s Congress Blog: US ethanol makes history by sacrificing a subsidy By Bob Dinneen, president and CEO, Renewable Fuels Association – 01/05/12 11:26 AM ET …
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Lynne Kiesling I offer you my best holiday wishes. What I wish for you, indeed for all of us, in this holiday season and into 2012 and beyond, is a life rich in liberty, toleration, peace, and good will. And, in the spirit of my friend Sarah’s wise invocation for us to light our candles …
Lynne Kiesling As a quick follow-up on my earlier post on music, harmony, and social cooperation, here’s a lovely video of Stile Antico singing Palestrina’s Assumpta est Maria: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjsitAd5Tlc] And, since we attended the Chicago Symphony’s Welcome Yule concert last night and it was lovely, here’s a snippet of Handel’s Messiah, from the choir of …
Lynne Kiesling An excellent holiday present for us all, from my friend Sarah: a free-market take on the classic Grinch tale. A taste of its poetic deliciousness to entice you to click through and read the whole poem: Then he walked right inside. Didn’t ring, didn’t knock. (Property rights are respected by folks who read …
Lynne Kiesling Happy holidays! If you are traveling by air this week to share the holidays with family, you have my sympathy … on the TSA front, not on the family front (but some of you may be dreading that too …). Whether you are subjecting yourself to the TSA’s invasiveness this holiday season or …
Lynne Kiesling When I read Gina Kolata’s New York Times article on the inaccuracy of GPS watches, I was not impressed with her journalism and her analysis. Her main theme was that we spend all of this money on GPS watches to record our training, and they aren’t even accurate. Her example: On Sunday, I …
Michael Giberson Russel Smith thinks we should use government power to limit natural gas production in order to boost gas prices. Why? Because he is the executive director of the Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association and cheap and plentiful gas is cutting into the business opportunities of renewable energy companies. “The price is so low, there’s so much …
Lynne Kiesling I haven’t written about shoes in a long time (sorry Manolo!), in large part because my aging, athlete feet can’t tolerate cute shoes to the degree that they used to. My shoe wardrobe vascillates among low-heeled boots, Converse sneakers (with my orthotics in them), and sandals with heel straps and orthopedic footbeds. I …
Lynne Kiesling Yesterday the KP Spouse and I drove the 11 hours home from Thanksgiving at his mother’s in Maryland. 11 hours each way (I drove out a week early for the Southern Economic Association meetings) is a small price to pay for avoiding the rudeness, indignity, invasiveness, and civil liberties violations associated with air …
Lynne Kiesling Here’s some outstanding geek attire! Monsters of Grok is a line of t-shirts that use rock band t-shirt logo designs, but the names are instead famous scientists and intellectuals such as Ada Lovelace (done as a Ladytron logo), Isaac Newton (as Iron Maiden), and Benjamin Franklin (as Black Flag). I fell over laughing …
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