constant struggle tag:www.flawdlogic.org,2008:/logic/1 2008-08-04T17:13:46Z it was exploding when i got here. Movable Type 3.31 Forty Seven tag:www.flawdlogic.org,2008:/logic//1.1937 2008-08-04T17:11:57Z 2008-08-04T17:13:46Z MCO: Orlando International Airport, Orlando, Florida, United States. (no, i wasn't visiting the mouse.)... MCO: Orlando International Airport, Orlando, Florida, United States. (no, i wasn't visiting the mouse.)]]> College tag:www.flawdlogic.org,2008:/logic//1.1936 2008-05-19T04:51:25Z 2008-08-04T17:10:34Z I feel as though i have quite a few thoughts on this, but my perpetually sleep-addled brain can't seem to express them in anything resembling coherency. Essentially, though, you have to believe either that a) vast numbers of Americans are... this, but my perpetually sleep-addled brain can't seem to express them in anything resembling coherency. Essentially, though, you have to believe either that a) vast numbers of Americans are somehow genetically incapable of completing college-level work or b) something is seriously wrong with our primary and secondary educational system: vast numbers of Americans receive compulsory education that is so shabby that by the time they get to college they have neither the skills nor the socialization to actually complete the work. Cue Bowles and Gintis.]]> Forty Six tag:www.flawdlogic.org,2008:/logic//1.1935 2008-05-12T23:06:02Z 2008-05-12T23:07:29Z HOU: William P. Hobby Airport, Houston, Texas, United States.... HOU: William P. Hobby Airport, Houston, Texas, United States.]]> Earned Disillusionment tag:www.flawdlogic.org,2008:/logic//1.1934 2008-04-07T16:54:49Z 2008-04-07T16:56:31Z There are wise people who talk ever so knowingly and complacently about "the working classes," and satisfy themselves that a day's hard intellectual work is very much harder than a day's hard manual toil, and is righteously entitled to much... There are wise people who talk ever so knowingly and complacently about "the working classes," and satisfy themselves that a day's hard intellectual work is very much harder than a day's hard manual toil, and is righteously entitled to much bigger pay. Why, they really think that, you know, because they know all about the one, but haven't tried the other. But I know all about both; and so far as I am concerned, there isn't money enough in the universe to hire me to swing a pickaxe thirty days, but I will do the hardest kind of intellectual work for just as near nothing as you can cipher it down—and I will be satisfied, too. -Mark Twain That Sounds About Right. tag:www.flawdlogic.org,2008:/logic//1.1933 2008-04-02T02:04:24Z 2008-08-04T17:17:07Z Karelis, a professor at George Washington University, has a simpler but far more radical argument to make: traditional economics just doesn't apply to the poor. When we're poor, Karelis argues, our economic worldview is shaped by deprivation, and we see... Karelis, a professor at George Washington University, has a simpler but far more radical argument to make: traditional economics just doesn't apply to the poor. When we're poor, Karelis argues, our economic worldview is shaped by deprivation, and we see the world around us not in terms of goods to be consumed but as problems to be alleviated. This is where the bee stings come in: A person with one bee sting is highly motivated to get it treated. But a person with multiple bee stings does not have much incentive to get one sting treated, because the others will still throb. The more of a painful or undesirable thing one has (i.e. the poorer one is) the less likely one is to do anything about any one problem. Poverty is less a matter of having few goods than having lots of problems.
Link. ]]> Health in America tag:www.flawdlogic.org,2008:/logic//1.1932 2008-03-30T20:10:14Z 2008-03-30T20:13:19Z 1. NYT reports that: Two widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs, Vytorin and Zetia, may not work and should be used only as a last resort, The New England Journal of Medicine said in an editorial published on Sunday. Merck and Schering-Plough,... reports that:
Two widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs, Vytorin and Zetia, may not work and should be used only as a last resort, The New England Journal of Medicine said in an editorial published on Sunday. Merck and Schering-Plough, the companies that make Vytorin and Zetia, said on Sunday that despite the results of the trial, they would continue to promote their medicines as first-line treatments for high cholesterol.
2. AP reports that:
[O]ut of 168 nations in a Harvard University study last year, 163 had some form of paid maternity leave, leaving the United States in the company of Lesotho, Papua New Guinea and Swaziland.
]]> Eight tag:www.flawdlogic.org,2008:/logic//1.1931 2008-03-02T04:19:49Z 2008-03-02T04:21:52Z ]]> Forty Five tag:www.flawdlogic.org,2008:/logic//1.1930 2008-03-02T04:11:50Z 2008-03-02T04:22:36Z VIE: Vienna International Airport, Vienna, Austria.... VIE: Vienna International Airport, Vienna, Austria.]]> Forty Four tag:www.flawdlogic.org,2008:/logic//1.1929 2008-03-02T04:09:35Z 2008-03-02T04:10:58Z RDU: Raleigh-Durham International Airport, Wake County, North Carolina, United States.... RDU: Raleigh-Durham International Airport, Wake County, North Carolina, United States.]]> Forty Three tag:www.flawdlogic.org,2008:/logic//1.1928 2008-03-02T04:07:05Z 2008-03-02T04:08:53Z IAD: Washington Dulles International Airport,Loudoun County and Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.... IAD: Washington Dulles International Airport,Loudoun County and Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.]]> Voltage, Frequency and Plug for Every Country in the World tag:www.flawdlogic.org,2008:/logic//1.1927 2008-02-10T08:27:21Z 2008-02-10T08:28:13Z Handy.... Handy.]]> Philly Facts of the Day tag:www.flawdlogic.org,2008:/logic//1.1926 2008-02-05T21:45:24Z 2008-02-05T21:53:14Z 1. It takes two Philly cops two hours to process one arrest for one ten dollar bag of weed. 2. The new police chief's Plan is to increase these types of arrests.... 1. It takes two Philly cops two hours to process one arrest for one ten dollar bag of weed. 2. The new police chief's Plan is to increase these types of arrests. MLK tag:www.flawdlogic.org,2008:/logic//1.1925 2008-01-22T03:42:50Z 2008-01-22T03:44:17Z I preach to you today on the war in Vietnam because my conscience leaves me with no other choice. The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard... I preach to you today on the war in Vietnam because my conscience leaves me with no other choice. The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery. Freedom is still the bonus we receive for knowing the truth. "Ye shall know the truth," says Jesus, "and the truth shall set you free." Now, I've chosen to preach about the war in Vietnam because I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.]]> Fact of the Day tag:www.flawdlogic.org,2008:/logic//1.1924 2008-01-18T06:29:46Z 2008-01-18T06:30:37Z In the U.S., about 30 percent of ninth graders don't finish high school in four years. Link.... Link.]]> the end of the trail tag:www.flawdlogic.org,2008:/logic//1.1923 2008-01-17T03:28:25Z 2008-01-17T03:40:03Z This guy lost his job, had to move in with his mom.. and then, the ultimate indignity: He had to sell his bike to a yuppie. He had owned a Harley since he was 20, and weekend cruising with pals... He had owned a Harley since he was 20, and weekend cruising with pals was his favorite recreation. “The buyer said he wanted to take it away in the back of a trailer,” Mr. Evans recalled, “and I said, ‘That won’t happen.’ ” “Instead I drove it to his house, threw him the keys, came home and got drunk.” Link. I wonder if he considered pulling a London: Delivering the bike to the putative buyer and then setting it ablaze while he and his buddies shared a few cold ones.
At the end of the trail a man who had killed fifty horses wanted to buy, but we looked at him and at our own,--mountain cayuses from eastern Oregon. Five thousand he offered, and we were broke, but we remembered the poison grass of the Summit and the passage in the Rocks, and the man who was my brother spoke no word, but divided the cayuses into two bunches,--his in the one and mine in the other,--and he looked at me and we understood each other. So he drove mine to the one side and I drove his to the other, and we took with us our rifles and shot them to the last one, while the man who had killed fifty horses cursed us till his throat cracked.
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