Inessentials

We arrived home from our second big trip in the last month late Tuesday night. Of course, the car rental company didn’t have a drop box for the car, so after a midnight run, we had to drive back at 7:00am to return the car that we rented at La Guardia to come home in.
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In what might turn into a recurring series, I thought I would mention a couple myths about the current election. These myths are ones I’ve heard reported from various news sources or editorials, but simply aren’t true. Repeated often, but not true.
Myth #1: Obama has a problem with Latino voters, an area where McCain is [...]

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I’ve been interested for a while in the support that Barack Obama has been garnering from many conservative thinkers. (E.g., conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan, those discussed in this “Obamacon” article.) While the vast majority of conservatives will either vote for McCain, vote third-party, or not vote at all this November, a number of prominent conservatives [...]

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I grew up on a meat and potatoes diet. Every dinner, there would be a meat (most often chicken, but also pork or beef), either rice or potato, and a veggie. Lunches would be similar, perhaps with a fruit instead of a veggie or bread instead of rice or potato. Vegetarianism wasn’t really on my [...]

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I don’t do much to hide or deny the fact that I am a geek in a lot of obvious ways. However, one mode of geekiness that I’ve left alone was reading comic books or graphic novels. Somehow, I just never got into them. Perhaps this is because my friends as a kid didn’t read [...]

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Let’s play a game. It’s called, “Find a reputable economist who thinks the gas tax holiday is a good idea.” Of course, the reason this game is fun is because you’ll have an awfully hard time finding one. Even television reporters have a hard time screwing this one up. Why? Well you can listen to [...]

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I guess I need to go back to college and take some economics classes, because I just don’t get some of these claims about how free markets drive down prices. Sometimes I see how it works, but sometimes claims about free markets lowering prices don’t make sense to me. Maybe someone out there on the [...]

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