Brad DeLong, economics professor at UC Berkeley, has posted a great article reminding us just what life was like for most US citizens back in the early 20th century:
A quarter of American households in 1900 had boarders or lodgers (compared to two percent today). Half of American households in 1900 had fewer rooms than persons [...]
As an almost-native Californian (missed it by several months, though my mom and all my sisters are native Californians), I thought this ad was spot-on and quite funny (click to go to ad):
More ads are here. Hat tip to The Volokh Conspiracy. ..bruce..
OK, I don’t drink (at least, not alcohol), but as a long-time fan of Law and Order, I found this proposed drinking game both funny and dead-on. Example:
The Defense serves Jack or Cute Assistant DA with a Motion to Dismiss – Another very common one. Honestly, I’m a little shocked if I don’t see [...]
The past 2 weeks have seen a great deal of activity in an otherwise very orderly and well structured financial system. As many of you know it’s a bit of a personal crusade to expose useful information that is hidden in plain sight, and expose it in a way that helps normal people gain [...]
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Victor Davis Hansen talks about how his graduate work in Classics led to writing about military history — and why military history matters:
Try explaining to a college student that Tet was an American military victory. You’ll provoke not a counterargument — let alone an assent — but a blank stare: Who or what was Tet? [...]
…this is a bit too unnerving:
Hat tip to Defamer (one of my guilty pleasures).
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Thanks to a tip I saw somewhere on the net today and the ever-helpful information at Heavens Above, I knew that the International Space Station (ISS) would be passing overhead here in Denver around 9:00 pm MDT. And sure enough, just before 9:00, a very bright dot appeared in the northwest sky, slowly heading toward [...]
Blackfive is on a role. First, they tracked down, identified, and conducted a phone interview with the USMC Staff Sergeant who did the slam poetry video below. And they did it before the mainstream media could.
Second, they have this link to Military Motivator, a place where individuals use the “do-it-yourself-Demotivator” function at Despair.com to post [...]
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I fully anticipated the 2000 Tech Crash, due to the insane spending of dot.com startups with no products and no clear business plan. Having been part of a venture-funded startup in the early 1990s — one that took five years to run through a grand total of $7M of venture capital — I heard big [...]
Ten Postulates of Political Correctness
Baron Bodissey [nice pen name, since I happen to know where it comes from] does an excellent job of laying out what he calls the Ten Postulates of Political Correctness:
1. America is uniquely evil.
2. America is never justified in defending itself.
3. Illiterate people from poor societies are superior to Americans.
4. The Earth would be better [...]
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