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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Haiku
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 18 May 2013 Just because no dissatisfied customer has ever complained does not mean that all … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged customer satisfaction, fallacy, haiku, parachutes, sophistry
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Food for thought
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 11 May 2013 The scams to which the free market will stoop to turn a fast … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, France, UK, USA
Tagged bon appétit, caveat emptor, eating out, home made, microwave meals, restaurant scam
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Conviction politics
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 10 May 2013 One definition of insanity is to continue to believe in stuff even when … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Politics, UK
Tagged conviction politics, cutting public spending, insanity, pig-headedness, Suzanne Moore
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Contra poenam capitalem
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Those pesky natives
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 8 May 2013 …the colonists say that the natives want to go too quickly in their … Continue reading
The Greening of America
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Posted in Politics, Revolution, USA
Tagged Charles A. Reich, counter-culture, the 1960s, the human condition, the promised land, Woodstock
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Those were the days!
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 6 May 2013 Be realistic: demand the impossible. Slogan of moderate student demonstrators in the Golden … Continue reading
Posted in France, Politics, Revolution, Uncategorized
Tagged May 1968 in Paris, student demonstrations
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Machiavelli
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 5 May 2013 Chi fonda in sul populo, fonda in sul fango. He who builds on … Continue reading