Northern surprise

Sarah Palin’s has announced she intends to quit as Governor of Alaska, fueling speculation that she is clearing the decks to focus on a Presidential run. The Wall Street Journal writes “Her decision not to run for a second term will likely fuel speculation about whether she may make a presidential bid in the 2012 [...]

Once upon a time

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Earth versus the suits

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Does business as usual work?

Here are links to two articles suggesting that conventional wisdom in both the political and financial spheres no longer works. First, we have Michael Totten’s interview of Robert Kaplan describing what I think may be the Abyssinian campaign of our time: Sri Lanka. The Abyssinian crisis of 1935 convinced many that the League of Nations [...]

Still I look to find a reason to believe

The two videos about the Waxman-Markey climate bill after the Read More are a study in contrasts. The first is by Glenn Beck and Peter Schiff and the second from Amy Smart of Environment America.  The Beck-Schiff video features two men talking at length about reasons why Waxman-Markey is bad; why in fact it is [...]

A posteriori

The terms “a priori” and “a posteriori” are used in philosophy to distinguish two different types of knowledge, justification, or argument: a priori knowledge is known independently of experience, and a posteriori knowledge is proven through experience. So what is the answer to the question: “are taxes going to be raised on people who make [...]

Going under

The administration is expanding a Federal bailout program to allow those deeper “underwater” to refinance with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. While the program is supposed to help out homeowners facing foreclosures, critics have called it an expansion of the disastrous subprime loan program. The Wall Street Journal describes the refinancing scheme: Strapped borrowers with mortgages [...]

Frederick Hunt

One of the regular commenters on this site, who we know as “Fred”, passed away. His obituary is at Neo-neocon’s, where his handle was FredHjr. One commenter at Neo-neocon’s says, “I feel like I lost someone that I knew personally.” What does it mean to know someone personally? Perhaps its true meaning is to “see [...]

Bearly true

The Telegraph describes how a polar bear expert has been banned from attending a conference in his field in Copenhagen because his views are inimical to the orthoxy on “global warming”. The news story says: Dr Mitchell Taylor has been researching the status and management of polar bears in Canada and around the Arctic Circle for [...]

Rubik cubed

Imagine debugging a million lines of code. How would you do it? The problem is a harder than simply finding the time. My old textbook reference suggests using the strategy of “test sets”. Put data in and check to see it is processed correctly. Sounds good, but the problem with this approach is that most [...]